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DeLay says he's ready to fight state ethics charges
Houston Cronicle ^ | Aug. 16, 2010

Posted on 08/17/2010 9:46:07 PM PDT by DirtyHarryY2K

AUSTIN — Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on Monday put the 5-year-old federal investigation into his relationship with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff behind him and turned his attention to an impending trial on Texas ethics issues.

DeLay said federal prosecutors told his attorneys last week that he had been "cleared" of any criminal violations in their investigation of Abramoff.

The formerRepublican lawmaker, who represented Sugar Land from 1984 to 2006, also said he is ready for up to three days of pre-trial hearings slated to start Aug. 24 in Austin on a state money-laundering charge related to campaign finance issues from the 2002 elections.

"It was good news to hear from the Justice Department that I have been cleared," DeLay said in a conference call with reporters.

"I know this is the price of leadership, but frankly, it doesn't have to happen this way. I hope people will look at my case and decide the criminalization of politics and the politics of personal destruction is not beneficial to our country or our system."

Justice Department officials declined comment.

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2006election; 2006electionbias; delay; getdelay; howtostealanelection; mccain; partisanwitchhunt; pelosicongress; pravdamedia; rinos; stealingcongress; tomdelay
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Note headline doesn't say "Delay Cleared on Federal Charges After 6 Year Investigation"..

LOL

1 posted on 08/17/2010 9:46:10 PM PDT by DirtyHarryY2K
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To: DirtyHarryY2K

whats going on?


2 posted on 08/17/2010 9:47:42 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: a fool in paradise

Ping


3 posted on 08/17/2010 9:52:31 PM PDT by DirtyHarryY2K (The Tree of Liberty is long overdue for its natural manure)
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To: dalebert

Did you read the article?


4 posted on 08/17/2010 10:04:44 PM PDT by DirtyHarryY2K (The Tree of Liberty is long overdue for its natural manure)
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To: dalebert

Delay had two processes of investigation going on , one from the Abramhoff scandal which was federal. Delays Aid took gifts from Abramoff, Delay did not.

One Dem County prosecutor in Texas said DeLay was laundering campaign money , when all DeLay had done was to transfer funds from one account (state) to a federal campaign account,and back. This is normal practise. It is not money laundering.

They had to shop three juries in Texas before they could get one to return an indictment.

Because of GOP party rules, anyone being “investigated” for a criminal offence has to resign their seat,while in the Dem party the rule is that they must be convicted of any offence.Delay had to resign his seat, and also Mccain and a bunch of RINOS made sure he did not get access to any possibility of a legal defence fund.

It was the most egregious move that conservatives could suffer. Without DeLay as a whip in the house, the RINOS were able to divide and conquer the GOP, and the conservative legislative agenda was abandoned by the Senate in the work of the notorious Gang of 14, including McCain.

DeLay has been exhonerated on his federal investigation after 6 years of false charges, and now he turns to have the false charges against him in Texas dismissed.This is a Dem abuse of our legal system, and a travesty to the Congress who lost a good man, feared by the Dems, when he was needed most.

Welcome back Tom. Heres to you re-entering the fray just when we need conservative strength as much as we ever have!


5 posted on 08/17/2010 10:10:07 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7

“Welcome back Tom. Heres to you re-entering the fray just when we need conservative strength as much as we ever have!”

YES!!!


6 posted on 08/17/2010 10:14:31 PM PDT by Humal
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To: Candor7

sure wish he had got this ruling before dancing with the stars.


7 posted on 08/17/2010 10:28:25 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: DirtyHarryY2K

I had forgotten much of the early details..its been awhile.


8 posted on 08/17/2010 10:29:46 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: Candor7
They had to shop three juries in Texas before they could get one to return an indictment.

I never read about that, I'd like to have a link to that, I have some 'moderates' on another board telling me that I'm a dumb ignorant redneck that gives 'conservatives' a bad name for 'defending' a 'sleazebag' like Tom Delay.. LMAO I know they're FOS. They also say Rush Limbaugh gives 'conservatives' a bad name.

9 posted on 08/17/2010 10:31:38 PM PDT by DirtyHarryY2K (The Tree of Liberty is long overdue for its natural manure)
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To: DirtyHarryY2K

Here you go, the first URL has links to 50 posted articles. We knew it was a set up.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1503749/posts

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/topstory2/3404814.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,177753,00.html


10 posted on 08/17/2010 10:47:51 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: dalebert

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1503749/posts


11 posted on 08/17/2010 10:51:45 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7

Thanks for the links. :0)


12 posted on 08/17/2010 11:04:18 PM PDT by DirtyHarryY2K (The Tree of Liberty is long overdue for its natural manure)
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To: Candor7
One Dem County prosecutor in Texas said DeLay was laundering campaign money ...

That was Ronnie Earle, Travis County District Attorney. Since the State Capital is in Austin (Travis County) the District Attorney has jurisdiction over all such political cases. Ronnie is a Democrat who ran his own little political fiefdom for years and reveled in his power. He was getting back at DeLay for helping the state Republicans get a fair redistricting done in the state. The Democrats had been in charge for years and had gerrymandered districts to assure continued Democrat control. DeLay helped remedy that.

An interesting aspect of the case was that the law they finally got a grand jury to indict him for breaking wasn't even the law at the time. It was passed after the event and was applied retroactively.

It was a political lynching, pure and simple. Do the Democrats suffer for such dirty shenanigans? No! It is expected of them but the Republicans must be pure as the driven snow or they are ground into the dirt.

13 posted on 08/18/2010 2:06:21 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
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To: DirtyHarryY2K

Tell them it’s 98 percent of Democrats who give all the rest a bad name......


14 posted on 08/18/2010 3:29:03 AM PDT by Quickgun (As a former fetus, I'm opposed to abortion. Mamas don't let your cowboys grow up to be babies..)
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To: Candor7
Thanks for the excellent summary.

The message from rats to conservatives these past 20 years has been, “If you are an effective conservative, we will destroy you and your family.”

Until we are willing to abuse the judicial system every bit as much, we will continue to find our leaders run out of office. Palin is a recent example. Expect some garbage soon on Rep Boehner.

15 posted on 08/18/2010 3:57:32 AM PDT by Jacquerie (Democrats soil institutions.)
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To: Jacquerie

The message from rats to conservatives these past 20 years has been, “If you are an effective conservative, we will destroy you and your family.”>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

No surprise here. They are nationalist soclialists, radicals, the pejorative term is fascist.Its time to wake up to that as a fact and send them packing so they never bother us again.

See this:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html


16 posted on 08/18/2010 9:26:45 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7

Ronnie Earle, that corrupt Democrat prosecutor who engaged in Nifongism, resigned from the case and even lost his primary run for Lt. Governor.

Partisan witchhunts continue.


17 posted on 08/18/2010 11:23:06 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Those who support the construction of the WTC mosque oppose Christian missionaries working abroad.)
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To: Mind-numbed Robot
He was getting back at DeLay for helping the state Republicans get a fair redistricting done in the state. The Democrats had been in charge for years and had gerrymandered districts to assure continued Democrat control. DeLay helped remedy that.

The meme is that DeLay gerrymanded the last redistricting strictly to help the GOP.

The truth of the matter is that Chris Bell, Democrat, was p*ssed that he lost HIS congressional seat to a black Democrat due to redistricting.

Now Chris Bell couldn't come out against the black Democrat without coming off as just another bigoted Democrat. So instead as a lame duck congressman, he launched an ethics charge at Tom DeLay.

Chris Bell, what a thug.

18 posted on 08/18/2010 11:27:23 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Those who support the construction of the WTC mosque oppose Christian missionaries working abroad.)
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To: DirtyHarryY2K; 1riot1ranger; Action-America; Aggie Mama; Alkhin; Allegra; American72; antivenom; ...
Note headline doesn't say "Delay Cleared on Federal Charges After 6 Year Investigation"..

The Comical didn't consider it newsworthy enough.

They saved that for a blog.

Feds clear Tom DeLay (August 16, 2010)

There must not have been enough room in the daily edition for this headline to see print.

19 posted on 08/18/2010 11:35:10 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Those who support the construction of the WTC mosque oppose Christian missionaries working abroad.)
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To: Jacquerie
The message from rats to conservatives these past 20 years has been, “If you are an effective conservative, we will destroy you and your family.”

From the Journolist-gate media-DNC collusion news item:

Documents show media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright [Journolist] (The Daily Caller ^ | July 20, 2010 | Jonathon Strong)

“Part of me doesn’t like this sh!t either,” agreed Spencer Ackerman, then of the Washington Independent. “But what I like less is being governed by racists and warmongers and criminals.”

Ackerman went on:

I do not endorse a Popular Front, nor do I think you need to. It’s not necessary to jump to Wright-qua-Wright’s defense. What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a rightwinger’s [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear. Obviously I mean this rhetorically.

DNC Brownshirts mean to take down the "enemy" (not of the US but of "The Party") by any means necessary including fraud and overt violence (their tire slashing, arson, and kidnapping cases are proof of that).

20 posted on 08/18/2010 11:43:52 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Those who support the construction of the WTC mosque oppose Christian missionaries working abroad.)
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