Tom Delay indicted in campain finance scheme
 

Just on the wire.

WASHINGTON - A Texas grand jury on Wednesday charged Rep. Tom DeLay and two political associates with conspiracy in a campaign finance scheme, an indictment that could force him to step down as House majority leader.



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9507677/

Witch hunt or not?

No, Delay's not a witch, he's a crook...........

bahahah 'witch hunt'...too funny...

Hopefully, Mr Ethics is about to become Mrs Ethics in the Big House.

Total scumbag.

The house of "Lil W" is finally coming down. Yea Hoooooooo.

I haven't been paying attention... what's this all about?

I do not live in Texas but I seem to remember that the great state of Penn and Rhode Island have their fair share of crooked elected representatives.

People who live in glass houses should not throw rocks or so I have heard...

Also, Ronnie Earle is not actually impartial as well. He is a Democrat and has been after Delay for years now and has had more than enough time to indict him if he had evidence of any wrong doing. That said, he has also had a lot of time to cook up any evidence needed. Look here: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/04/60minutes/main678234.shtml

JoeA

I'll wait for the trial. Too many times what you first hear is not what is brought out in trial.

You are right. RI is the mobster state. Our beloved ex mayor is in a federal pen. The mob ran providence for 40+ years...there's no hiding that!

You fail to see the big difference. I take glee in Delay being called on the carpet because he is the one obsessed (politically/publicly, anyway) with ethics/morals etc (cough: Schiavo case)

He's a f#cking hypocrite just like all the others, after all.

In summary, when the god squad/morals/ethics squad f#ck up, it is especially delicious.

From what I'v heard he is accused of using corporate donations (which can only be used for one thing or another) and used them for something else. Or they claim his campaign did, either way. Real nasty stuff indeed.

It is about a liberal witch hunt...Orchestrated by a partisan Democrat hack...Think Joe Stalin's show trials.

From a party who has a really wicked history of campaign finance violations, including taking money from the Chinese Military for top-secret ICBM technology, I find this play rather suspicious.

Right, funds saw the wrong account...That is the crime...A far cry from the traitorous campaign finance violations that Reno covered up for Clinton.

Spoken like a Godless fascist.

Sober...I agree, and if Delay is guilty of some type of "quid pro quo"...I say hang him high...Alas, this has the appearance of being a smoke-screen and witch hunt by a proven elected partisan Democrat who is using the court system as a tool to inflict political damage.

The party is power has certainly captured the moral LOW ground.

Yep

Please...Your party wrote the book on sleazy fund-raising.

Check out http://dropthehammer.org/corruption/

mmyeesss, and the democrates HATE the competition

As The Washington Post reported, last week Pelosi filed delinquent reports for three trips she herself accepted from outside sponsors. The biggie was a week-long 1999 trip to Taiwan, paid for by the Chinese National Association of Industry and Commerce. The tab for Pelosi and her husband: about $8,000.

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And while Pelosi bashes GOP ethics, PoliticalMoneyLine, a data firm, crunched the numbers and found that in the last five years, Democrats took 3,458 privately funded junkets, while Republicans took 2,666.



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