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A 3rd DeLay Trip Under Scrutiny
Washington Post ^ | Wednesday, April 6, 2005 | R. Jeffrey Smith and James V. Grimaldi

Posted on 04/05/2005 10:14:18 PM PDT by bgsugar

1997 Russia Visit Reportedly Backed by Business Interests

A six-day trip to Moscow in 1997 by then-House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) was underwritten by business interests lobbying in support of the Russian government, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the trip arrangements . . . . .

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To: Southack

by all means, pontificate..


21 posted on 04/05/2005 11:16:18 PM PDT by Michael Barnes
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To: bgsugar

An Open Letter to Conservatives by Morton C. Blackwell
in defense of U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, under INTENSE DNC attack!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1374139/posts


22 posted on 04/05/2005 11:16:32 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (ATTN. MARXIST RED MSM: I RESENT your "RED STATE" switcheroo using our ELECTORAL MAP as PROPAGANDA!)
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To: OneTimeLurker

Well .. I can't remember all the details right now - but the VP cannot sign an agreement or treaty with anybody .. and secondly, I believe it was a treaty which the Senate would have to approve - but they somehow didn't know anything about it. So .. while it might not have been the crime of the century - it was definitely not legal with Al Gore's signature, unless of course Clinton had already signed it when Gore took it to Russia ..??

I just don't remember all the details but I do remember there was an uproar in the Senate over it - because they were not even aware this was going on.


23 posted on 04/05/2005 11:17:23 PM PDT by CyberAnt (President Bush: "America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth")
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To: bgsugar

The group going after Tom Delay in the latest Post and New York Times articles is Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is a non-profit, progressive legal watchdog group dedicated to holding public officials accountable for their actions.



Citizens For Responsibility and Ethics
In Washington

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is a new government watchdog group. CREW brings legal cases exposing government officials who betray the public interest by serving special interests. CREW's cases target not only such officials, but also the special interests supporting them. CREW is nonpartisan and is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization.




Executive Director Melanie Sloan, Sloan was formerly an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia, from 1998- early 2003.



Before becoming a prosecutor, Ms. Sloan was Minority Counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 1998 where she worked for Ranking Member Congressman John Conyers, specializing in criminal enforcement issues, including the Independent Counsel law. In 1994, Ms. Sloan served as Counsel on the Crime Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, working for then Representative Charles Schumer. In 1993, Ms. Sloan served as Nominations Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, under then Chairman Senator Joseph Biden, where she researched the backgrounds of nominees to high level Department of Justice positions and to the federal courts.








· According to The Hill, GOP research also revealed that Mark Penn, a formed pollster for President Clinton, and Daniel Berger, a major Democratic donor, serve on CREW’s board. Spokeswoman Naomi Seligman refused to reveal the membership of CREW’s board, although she admitted that Penn and Berger are members.

Last year, Berger made a $100,000 contribution to America Coming Together (ACT), a 527 group that was dedicated to defeating George W.Bush in the presidential election, according to politicalmoneyline.com, a Web site that tracks fund-raising. According to records released by the Internal Revenue Service on Monday, March 21, 2005, and obtained by NewsMax.com, Soros Fund Management/George Soros gave the group a whopping $7.5 million in the 2004 election cycle.

· Democracy 21, headed by longtime liberal activist Fred Wertheimer, who once headed the left-wing group Common Cause. The group's board of directors has given "tens of thousands to Democrats,” the GOP research showed. A survey by The Hill of fund-raising data on politicalmoneyline.com showed that three members of the group’s board, including Dick Clark, a former Democratic senator from Iowa, gave nearly $20,000 in contributions to Democrats since the beginning of the 2000 election cycle while Republicans received not a cent from board members, according to the survey by The Hill.

Lexa Edsall, a consultant to the group, served in the Clinton administration, and Amanda Lewis, the communications director, worked for former New York Democratic Gov. Mario Cuomo, according to the GOP research.

Democracy 21’s education fund also received a $50,000 grant from Soros’ institute in 2003, the most recent year for which data are available, according to a 990 form filed with the Internal Revenue Service. The GOP research paper states that the group has received $300,000 in total from Soros' Open Society Institute.

· Joining in the lynch mob, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called for a bipartisan panel to review the chamber’s ethics procedures.

· Rep. Rahm Emmanuel, D-Ill., the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and a Clinton White House aide, has put together a scheme to use alleged ethics violations as an issue in races against DeLay and Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, The Hill reported last week.

Republicans told The Hill that the evidence reveals a coordinated effort between House Democrats and the liberal pressure groups to damage DeLay and the GOP leadership politically.







24 posted on 04/05/2005 11:21:08 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl

wow! nice work.


25 posted on 04/05/2005 11:32:10 PM PDT by SittinYonder (Tancredo and I wanna know what you believe)
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To: bgsugar

26 posted on 04/06/2005 12:10:50 AM PDT by Fred Nerks (Understand Evil: Read THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD. Link on my Page. free pdf.)
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To: Middle Aged White Male

Tom Delay can do whatever he wants to as far as I'm concerned. I don't believe the MSM anyway. It's all lies.


27 posted on 04/06/2005 12:13:22 AM PDT by balch3
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To: bgsugar

http://home.tampabay.rr.com/sp/FLA.html


28 posted on 04/06/2005 12:15:20 AM PDT by Fred Nerks (Understand Evil: Read THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD. Link on my Page. free pdf.)
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To: bgsugar
1997 Russia Visit Reportedly Backed by Business Interests

Was HE the one who stuffed archived documents into his underwear and shredded some too?

If so I don't like this guy and as far as I'm concerned he should have been "tarred and feathered" instead of just getting a $10,000 fine and a 3 year restriction from his defense knowledge! /s

29 posted on 04/06/2005 12:40:23 AM PDT by EGPWS
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To: bgsugar

The fact is he gets under their skin. Betcha they will make it four (4) investigations by say, June?


30 posted on 04/06/2005 2:18:50 AM PDT by gulfcoast6 (. or, ?)
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To: Middle Aged White Male
None of us know the specifics yet, but come on. If delay did anything illegal, we ought not defend him. I am not going to excuse this because other people do it as well. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying throw him to the dogs. It is important that we keep our standards high for our own leaders.

I agree. We need to be the party of high standards, not the party of hypocrites.

31 posted on 04/06/2005 3:14:31 AM PDT by Amelia (Still cynical after all these years.......)
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To: bgsugar
He took a trip EIGHT years ago . . . he talked to some people . . . . most members of Congress also take trips and . . . . talk to people . . . . (Ms. Pelosi sends her staff on trips paid by lobbyists to talk to people) . . . . another non-new non-news attempt to smear a good man.

And what's the statute of limitations on this "crime"? [/sarc]

32 posted on 04/06/2005 4:38:32 AM PDT by jriemer (We are a Republic not a Democracy)
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To: Southack
This is all manufactured nonsense, and it won't work.

I hope you are right. Anybody who stands up and publically calls our judiciary "arrogant" and "out of control" has my full support.

33 posted on 04/06/2005 4:53:23 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (Does my American flag offend you? Dial 1-800-LEAVE THE USA!)
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To: CyberAnt

"This junk just proves to me how desperate the dems are - they have to have somebody to demonize in order to raise money."

Seems to me that this is about judicial nominations. the demonrats hope that if they can manufacture a scandal, the Republicans won't have the spine to follow through with the constitutional option.

By the way, what is supposed to be scandalous about all this? Have they even alleged that DeLay broke any laws?


34 posted on 04/06/2005 5:54:01 AM PDT by dsc
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To: bgsugar; PhilDragoo; devolve; Happy2BMe; Grampa Dave; yall
How much attention did the media give THIS??:


Gore's Statement "No Controlling Legal Authority"


35 posted on 04/06/2005 6:02:20 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: bgsugar

If this is worthy of investigation, I'm sure they'll open investigations into Klinton's Brother and Madeline Not-So-Bright's trips to South Korea. It's funny how nobody ever questioned Secy. of Commerce Brown's trips abroad, either.


36 posted on 04/06/2005 6:09:57 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Proud infidel since 1970.)
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To: bgsugar
This is getting silly...
37 posted on 04/06/2005 6:10:30 AM PDT by demlosers (Soylent Green is made in Florida)
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To: CyberAnt
AL GORE WAS SENT TO RUSSIA BY BILL CLINTON - TO ATTEND A SECRET MEETING WITH THE HEAD OF RUSSIA - AND THEY SIGNED AN AGREEMENT - WHICH CONGRESS DID NOT EVEN KNOW ABOUT. THIS WAS TOTALLY OUT OF THE SCOPE OF THE POWERS OF THE PRESIDENT

And, as a result of these meetings, Al Gore knew about the former USSR's funneling of aid money into research in nuclear and bio-weapons but agreed with the Russians to keep it from Congress so that the money would keep coming and the Klinton Administration would keep getting media kudos about the great things that they've done to improve Russian relations.

38 posted on 04/06/2005 6:23:06 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Proud infidel since 1970.)
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To: bgsugar

Oops, for #36 that should be "North Korea".


39 posted on 04/06/2005 6:37:28 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Proud infidel since 1970.)
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To: bgsugar
Click

Turning to the current reports on alleged ethics violations in his foreign trips, DeLay said he had an international responsibility and he worked with conservative groups in Britain, France and even Russia, from where he helped many Jewish families get out. His South Korean trip was paid by an exchange group, he said. I travel a for a reason, the reason the national media hates. Because of the extreme scrutiny, we make sure every step I do take is checked by several lawyers to ensure that I don't break the law. The more they attack, the stronger I get," DeLay said.


40 posted on 04/06/2005 6:39:22 AM PDT by deport (You know you are getting older when everything either dries up or leaks.)
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