Tom DeLay was ousted on a charge that still has not gone to trial and the prosecutor, having done his job of ousting DeLay from office and leadership, is moving on without bringing the case to court.
It also took 5 different grand juries to finally get an indictment the prosecutor was looking for. How about that for jury shopping. That’s saying something considering you can usually get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich as the old cliché goes. And of course all the violation of ethics that went on to get that indictment on the part of prosecutor.
I’m not talking about the Texas stuff, that was crap invented out of whole cloth. I’m talking about Jack Abramoff and Bob Ney and the whole stinking machine that DeLay set up to rake in campaign contributions from the lobbyists. I’m talking about him putting his wife and daughter on his campaign payroll, setting up staff members with lucrative lobbying jobs and steering earmarks to their clients, and on and on. DeLay would have been run out of the House eventually for that stuff even if the Texas stuff had never happened. The funny thing is, the Democrats cared more about nailing him for getting those five Republicans elected to the House in Texas than for him corrupting the entire House.