Posted on 09/28/2005 9:35:52 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay indicted on one count of criminal conspiracy by Texas grand jury, according to Travis County clerk's office.
I hope Levin has more to say on this! This guy is NOT able to answer the questions!
They also ban people for being excessively ANNOYING
WAAAAAA! WHAAAAA!
The question of why there is no link to Delay in the indictment was just brought up to Earle
He couldn't answer the question of what proof he had
The good news is that his conviction record is about as good as Larry Klayman's.
I knew he was going to run against someone, but I did think that it was Delay. I don't know what his address is in the Houston area.
who asked him that? you mean they actually allowed a decent reporter to ask him a question?
No kidding! I want a transcript of this press conference. I have never heard so much tap dancing in my life.
That should tell you everything you need to know about the validity of the charges...
It takes 6 grand juries to find one that would indict!!!!
I had heard that David Dreier's seat was up for grabs next year...I guess his "promotion" to Majority Leader will be a "make it or break it" time...
If he does well, he shouldn't have any problems getting re-elected..
I don't think the dems in the House are going to like it...he has been head of the Rules Committee...I guess he will have to give that up???
In 1992, Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis, D-Fort Worth, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor ethics charge and was fined $2,000 as part of a plea bargain.
In 1985, Attorney General Jim Mattox, a Democrat, was acquitted of a felony bribery charge brought by Mr. Earle's office.
In 1978, Mr. Earle obtained a felony perjury conviction of state Supreme Court Justice Don Yarbrough, a Democrat.
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This list came from http://www.tpj.org/page_view.jsp?pageid=763&pubid=521, but with the help of google you can find plenty of corroboration for the veracity of these..
Husband is napping in my computer room, so I am watching TV in the kitchen and running in here to "quietly" type.
Now, after hearing Earle, I am trying not to LOL to loudly.
There is no there, there, and I think all but the most partisan of reporters are seeing that! LOL!
This trolls are getting lamer and lamer. Holeinthedonut must have taken his screen name from his last lover. LOL!
"The question of why there is no link to Delay in the indictment was just brought up to Earle
He couldn't answer the question of what proof he had "
Exactly, when I read the indictment itself it became crystal clear that he doesn't have SH*T on Delay.
What a joke !!
I hope Delay HIRES Mark Levin!!!!
"Uh, I'm supposed to have proof?"
nothing else, you have to give Travis County Democrats credit for thinking big, like real Texans. Apparently undaunted that the assault on President Bush's National Guard service blew up in their faces, they are now trying to bring down House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. All roads in the CBS memo scandal traverse Travis County. Dan Rather was the special guest at a 2001 fundraiser for the Travis County Democratic Party, and his daughter is active in the organization. Former National Guardsman Bill Burkett, the unstable Bush-baiter, who now claims he was the source of the forged documents, is represented (and many believe directed) by David Van Os, the former Travis County Democratic Party chairman. Now Travis County district attorney Ronnie Earle, a Democrat with a history of bringing politically motivated indictments, has indicted three DeLay aides who ran a political action committee called Texans for a Republican Majority PAC. Perhaps recognizing that indicting DeLay himself 41 days before an election would be just too transparent, Earle instead indicted the three underlings for allegedly directing corporate contributions to Texas legislative candidates in 2002. At stake in 2002 was control of the Texas legislature, which was to redraw congressional district lines. Corporate contributions to legislative candidates are illegal in Texas. The DeLay aides stand accused of violating that prohibition, along with eight companies like Sears Roebuck that provided the funds. The corporate money, however, never went to the candidates. Instead, it went to a much larger fund for state elections controlled by the Republican National Committee in Washington. That committee made contributions to Texas legislative candidates, constituting what Earle now charges is "money laundering." The only problem is that similar transactions are conducted by both parties in many states, including Texas. In fact, on October 31, 2002, the Texas Democratic Party sent the Democratic National Committee (DNC) $75,000, and on the same day, the DNC sent the Texas Democratic Party $75,000. On July 19, 2001, the Texas Democratic Party sent the DNC $50,000 and, again on the same day, the DNC sent the Texas Democratic Party $60,000. On June 8, 2001, the Texas Democratic Party sent the DNC $50,000. That very same day, the DNC sent the Texas Democratic Party $60,000. EARLE'S LAST FORAY INTO politicized prosecution in 1993 turned into a huge embarrassment when he went after Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), who was then Texas Treasurer. Earle made a series of trumped-up charges, including that the demure Hutchison had physically assaulted an employee. Earle dropped the case during the trial. DeLay has been the target of previous legal harassment. Four years ago, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, under the chairmanship of Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), filed a lawsuit under RICO, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. RICO was designed as a tool against organized crime, but Kennedy argued that DeLay's relationships with Washington lobbyists amounted to "extortion." Even some liberal commentators criticized the suit as frivolous. It was eventually thrown out. This year, lame duck Rep. Chris Bell (D-TX), who lost a March primary, filed a Complaint with the House Ethics Committee, citing many of the same circumstances in the Earle indictments. For good measure, Bell echoed Kennedy's "extortion" allegations and claimed DeLay "misused" his office by asking the Federal Aviation Administration and Justice Department to help find Texas legislators who fled to Oklahoma to deny Republicans a quorum needed to pass the redistricting plan. Since Bell had, in effect, been redistricted out of his seat, his allegations were colored, but did not stop the media from repeating them. IRONICALLY, DELAY'S DEMOCRATIC counterpart in the House, Nancy Pelosi, has been involved in wholesale and indisputable election law violations, but has been absent from the headlines. Pelosi is a champion of what is called "campaign finance reform." The clearest and most fundamental tenet of current election law is the limitation of contributions. Yet, Pelosi's committees have engaged in a massive circumvention of the limitation, even as Pelosi was a key player in passing additional "reform" measures such as McCain-Feingold. Earlier this year, the Federal Election Commission fined two so-called leadership PACs associated with Pelosi in response to a Complaint by the National Legal and Policy Center. The purpose of leadership PACs is to make contributions to the campaigns of other Congressional candidates. House and Senate Leaders are allowed one leadership PAC in addition to their own campaign committee. Pelosi set up two. Her second PAC made $5,000 contributions to thirty-six campaigns that had already received the $5,000 maximum from the first. The treasurer of both PACs candidly admitted that the "main reason" for setting up the second PAC was to "give twice as much (sic) hard dollars." Some of the enmity directed at DeLay results from his success in the Texas redistricting. It is rank hypocrisy to suggest that his actions are unprecedented or inappropriate. After all, the King of Redistricting is still the late Democratic Rep. Phil Burton of California. In a 2003 tribute, Pelosi gushed, "his true artistry was displayed when it came to redistricting. One press account described it as 'Phil Burton's contribution to modern art.' For almost three decades, he painted the political landscape of Californians in the House from his palette."
AGREED! If this is the best he/they can do it's truly and deeply, PITIFUL. He has a canned response- he has no answers for their questions.
Do you suppose he is surprised by the indictment? This guy is a big ole duuhhhh..
Brian Wilson now saying Delay is PO'd...
What do you bet that we don't see much of Ronnie Earle's press conference on the MSM?
Dang. We had to listen to Earle and will get a replay of Delay's comments. He is going to blast Earle. I am waiting for this...harsh language and rhetoric from Delay, accoroding to Brian Wilson.
You got that right!!
The dems stepped in it big time with this one
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