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 . . . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
by all means, pontificate..
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
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.
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.
wow! nice work.
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.
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
The fact is he gets under their skin. Betcha they will make it four (4) investigations by say, June?
I agree. We need to be the party of high standards, not the party of hypocrites.
And what's the statute of limitations on this "crime"? [/sarc]
I hope you are right. Anybody who stands up and publically calls our judiciary "arrogant" and "out of control" has my full support.
"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?
How much attention did the media give THIS??:
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.
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.
Oops, for #36 that should be "North Korea".
ClickTurning 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.
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