Posted on 08/16/2010 6:12:48 AM PDT by macquire
The Justice Department has informed former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) that the government has ended a six-year investigation of his ties to the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to DeLay's lead counsel in the matter, Richard Cullen, chairman of McGuireWoods.
The investigation lasted through two presidents and four attorneys general. Its demise provides a stark footnote to the lobbying scandals that helped Democrats regain the House majority they held for 40 years and lost in the Republican revolution of 1994, which eventually made the pugnacious DeLay one of Washington’s top power brokers.
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He’s off clean? Does that mean he gets his seat back? or his leadership position?
The fight should have started before he gave up his leadership position.
He had one of the safest (d) offices in Texas. He and lord dog nuts had / have the Austin liberals as their voting base.
Earle got defeated in the Dem primary so he out of it unless he's running as a 3rd party which I'm not aware of.
Linda Chavez-Thompson DEM 314,972 53.13% Ronnie Earle DEM 205,516 34.67% Marc Katz DEM 72,235 12.18%
The DA in Austin, Ronnie Earle, was the biggest liar.
Maybe, maybe not.
I don't know how much more a man with a limited budget can do when the budget of the Federal Gov't and the MSM are arrayed against him.
Knowing this, the national rats got a TX prosecutor to indict DeLay. No trial ever, just indictment.
Rats don't oppose, they destroy. We should do the same.
When do the dhiminicrats prosecute Foley?
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