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House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's abuse of power has gotten worse and without urgent action he might get away with it. Last week a judge in Texas ruled that a political action committee formed by DeLay was guilty of violating state law by failing to report some $600,000 in corporate contributions that were used to sway Texas elections in 2002. Those 2002 elections were part of a power grab to redraw the congressional district lines in Texas in order to put more Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Tomorrow hundreds of MoveOn members will go to the offices of congressional Republicans and deliver petitions urging them to "Fire Tom DeLay" from his post as majority leader. Please take one minute right now to sign our petition before tomorrow's deadline so we have lots of signatures to deliver, increasing our impact.
DeLay has already been found guilty three times by the House ethics committee
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Lawmaker Travel Reports Pour In
Jun 1, 2005 5:48 AM
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(AP) At least 43 House members and dozens of aides failed to publicly report travel financed by special interests until Majority Leader Tom DeLay's trips were scrutinized, an Associated Press review shows.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/05/31/politics/main698676.shtml
CBS News | Lawmaker Travel Reports Pour In | May 31, 2005 11:00:06
This is not going anywhere it may be a wet dream of yours and the other lunatics at move-on but it is all over but the crying get over it the sooner the better for you it will be.
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Re: Lawmaker Travel Reports Pour In
Jun 1, 2005 8:31 AM
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It seems that while the Dems were pounding on DeLay, there was a mad dash by many pols to correct their travel records, non the least would be Nancy Pelosi and the ever infamous Sheila Jackson-Lee whose travel paid by special interest groups makes DeLay's look like child's play.
And now it seems that Ronnie Earle, the Travis County DA that has made it his personally crusade to take DeLay down, was at a Democrat fund raiser shouting how the Republicans had to be taken down. Not exactly the non-partisan DA that Earle tries to represent himself as. But the tide is turning on Earle. It seems that even the Dems at the Travis county court house are beginning to distance themselves from Earle. And while Earle still has somewhat of a following in one of the most liberal cities in America (remember, UT paid Michael Moore-on $25,000.00 to wave his Oscar around and Austin had a cross dressing transvestite run for mayor) there are those who have jumped off the Earle bandwagon.
Austin, once a bastion for the far left, is also turning. And the outlying areas of Austin, while still under Earle's Travis County domain, it almost entirely conservative.
It is rumored that those in the know have advised Earle to cool it. That he is doing more harm than good to the Democrats of Travis County. Could it be that Earle's tenure as DA is in peril? One could only hope.
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Learning sentence structure from Yoda?
Jun 1, 2005 8:32 AM
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>>but it is all over but the crying get over it the sooner the better for you it will be.<<
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Re: Lawmaker Travel Reports Pour In
Jun 1, 2005 8:35 AM
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In case you didn't notice, Delay's campaign committee has been found guilty not of a mere lapse in reporting travel expenditures (and Delay's violations in that regard are far more than mere lapses), but rather of campaign finance violations, to the tune of $600,000.
Do yourself a favor and read the list of Delay's crimes in the message I posted. Get educated.
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Re: Lawmaker Travel Reports Pour In
Jun 1, 2005 8:59 AM
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If education is what you seek, allow me to educate you.
From the CNN article:
>DeLay, the second-ranking Republican in the House, was not a defendant in the suit, which was filed against committee treasurer Bill Ceverha.
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>DeLay has not been charged, but three men with close ties to DeLay have been indicted for illegal fund-raising activities by the committee.
The crime wasn't committed by Delay, it was about an organization that Delay was part of. So delay is not guilty of this crime, nor found guilty, nor liable for any part of it. You are making false accussations about Delay. Funny part is you just got done with another post defending Hillary for similar campaign funding practices.
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Re: Lawmaker Travel Reports Pour In
Jun 1, 2005 9:03 AM
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Grumblibear it's not going to go anywhere your wasting your time. Your flogging a dead horse you may enjoy the idea of believing DeLay is going to be taken down, not going to happen want to put money on it?
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Re: Lawmaker Travel Reports Pour In
Jun 1, 2005 10:35 AM
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> If education is what you seek, allow me to educate
> you.
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> From the CNN article:
> >DeLay, the second-ranking Republican in the House,
> was not a defendant in the suit, which was
> filed against committee treasurer Bill Ceverha.
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> and
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> >DeLay has not been charged, but three men
> with close ties to DeLay have been indicted for
> illegal fund-raising activities by the committee.
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> The crime wasn't committed by Delay, it was about an
> organization that Delay was part of. So delay is not
> guilty of this crime, nor found guilty, nor liable
> for any part of it. You are making false
> accussations about Delay. Funny part is you just got
> done with another post defending Hillary for similar
> campaign funding practices.
You should have noticed that I put the words "Delay Found Guilty" in quotes. That's because they're not my words, but the words of the Move-on.pac folks who sent me the message.
Additionally, there is little comparison to the Hillary Clinton issue. Why? Because David Rosen was charged for a much lesser infraction - underreporting the cost of an event - and he was found NOT GUILTY. Delay's team - three of them - were found GUILTY of failing to report multiple corporate contributions. They have been CONVICTED OF CRIMES. Nobody on Hillary's staff has been convicted, nor is anyone on her staff being charged with such.
So, I wouldn't advise that anyone send you to the store to get apples - you're too likely to come back with walnuts.
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Re: Lawmaker Travel Reports Pour In
Jun 1, 2005 10:40 AM
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Apparently a good portion of our wonderful elected representatives abuse their positions. No matter what side they sit on.
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Re: Lawmaker Travel Reports Pour In
Jun 1, 2005 1:11 PM
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There is lax reporting, and then there is outright flagrant abuse. Delay's committee's behavior fits the latter.
And there is a big difference between accepting illegal campaign donations and failing to report on a timely basis travel expenses.
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Re: Lawmaker Travel Reports Pour In
Jun 1, 2005 1:55 PM
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I just enjoy exposing criminal and/or unethical behavior.
I believe Delay is a shady character who will eventually get his just desserts.
The Dem's goal really is to retake Congress. Delay is just a speed bump on that road. Once he's reduced to a minority leader, his importance as a target will likely be much diminished.
The problem is that he used these illegal contributions to sieze the Texas legislature, and then use that power to jerrymander the districts to grant the Republicans more seats in the US Congress. I'm willing to entertain the notion that long-time democratic control of the Texas legislature may have resulted in some districting inequities, but that still doesn't justify using illegal means to gain power.
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Re: Lawmaker Travel Reports Pour In
Jun 1, 2005 8:14 PM
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Your dreaming none of this is viewed by the wider public than anything more than what it is, partisan politics. To quote Ann Coulter "Republicans have won a majority of Senate seats the past six consecutive elections. (And the last six consecutive elections in the House of Representatives, too!)" Sorry GB the democrats have no hope of recapturing the House any time soon and it is not looking much better in the Senate. In fact the Democrats are looking to become a permanent minority much like the Republicans were for 60 years.
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