[ravingnutter]

Maybe this?

In one previously unreported example of the tight connections, Rep. Lamar S. Smith (R-Tex.), one of the committee's new members, was co-host of a 2002 fundraising breakfast to benefit the DeLay-founded political action committee that is now the subject of a grand jury investigation in Texas. The grand jury is looking into whether the PAC improperly used corporate funds to influence the outcome of state legislative races.

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[goldstategop]

The Democrats are mad at losing their majority status in Texas and are now bent on driving the architect of the GOP House gains out of political life. Machiavellian and effective.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)