Posted on 02/15/2006 4:12:29 PM PST by SolidSupplySide
Utahns are helping finance the campaign of a Texas attorney challenging former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay for his seat in Congress.
Tom Campbell, a graduate of Brigham Young University, swept into Salt Lake City on Monday for a whirlwind fundraiser and meeting with Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.
Campbell is running as a reformer. He says the future of the Republican Party hinges on his race against the embattled incumbent in Texas' 22nd Congressional District.
DeLay stepped down from his leadership post last year after being charged in Texas with campaign finance violations.
More recently, DeLay has been pilloried because of his ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who pleaded guilty to defrauding American Indian tribes of millions and is cooperating in an ongoing congressional corruption probe.
Campbell expects the Democratic Party to run against the "culture of corruption" in Washington. And DeLay, Campbell said, will be "Exhibit A."
"This is an issue of national importance. What's at stake is the future of the Republican Party," Campbell said Monday. "Tom DeLay will lose. The question is whether he will lose to me or a liberal Democrat. If we clean up our house, that issue is not going to be available."
Campbell, a 51-year-old Texas attorney, was born in Utah and grew up in Washington, D.C.
He studied law at Baylor University, worked as an attorney in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the first President Bush and directed Bob Dole's rapid response team for the 1996 presidential campaign.
Campbell flew to Salt Lake City this week to raise money among the state's Republican faithful - including some of the party's most prominent figures.
Former congressional candidate and Huntsman adviser Tim Bridgewater hosted Campbell during a reception at a downtown law firm, the office of Sen. Orrin Hatch's son, Brent.
Donations for the fete ranged from $250 to $1,000.
Campbell has raised about $130,000 for the race, including $50,000 of his own money.
"The bottom line is: It runs on money," he said.
Don't play dumb. You signed up on FR to stump for Tony Sanchez, the corrupt Democratic candidate for governor of Texas.
You're confused. Morales was the corrupt Dem. Sanchez was the conservative Dem. Seeing as Sanchez is Hispanic, I can understand why he ran as a Dem. I would have preferred to see him run in the GOP primary where he belongs. Why do you think Sanchez is liberal?
Also, Sanchez gave over $300,000 to GW Bush. (Does that qualify for Pioneer status, I think it does.) Sanchez was a Republican running in the Democratic primary. He was not corrupt as you claim. He is not a liberal as you claim. The only reason he ran in the Democrat primary, I believe, is because he is Hispanic.
Sanchez was a liberal. He was in favor of abortion, racial quotas, and more public school spending. He ran as a DemocRAT because was a DemocRAT. He was a former aide to a DemocRAT. After you registered on Free Republic, you immediately began stumping for him and encouraging Texans to support for him. You are obviously a troll, and I don't know why you haven't been expelled from FR.
Sanchez was a political appointee of GW Bush when he was Governor.
Furthermore, holding Sanchez personally responsible for what drug dealers did in his S&L sounds familiar to something. Yeah, sometimes people hold VP Cheney personally responsible for everything Halliburton has done. You are not being intellectually honest here. Unless, of course, you do hold Cheney responsible for everything Halliburton has done. But my money says that you're not intellectually honest.
For the record and to the benefit of those who are not in Texas:
The Democrat that Holden Magroin refers to is Ben Barnes. Ben Barnes may be a familiar name because he was in the news again a year or so ago. A prominent Democrat in the early 1970s, Barnes killed the story suggesting that President Bush received preferential treatment to get in the Texas Air National Guard. Barnes, like Sanchez, was a conservative Democrat from an earlier Texas era.
Also, Sanchez sued the Laredo newspaper for libel over a Tesoro Savings and Loan story. Sanchez lost the libel suit because the Laredo newspaper never made allegations that Sanchez had any knowledge of money laundering. In fact, the jury made a finding of fact that Sanchez and noone in his family knew of any wrongdoing.
Holden Magroin is, however, making the allegations that the Laredo newspaper never did.
According to his bio on Wikipedia, he was one of eight people who contributed over $500,000 to John Kerry's presidential campaign and was described by Tom Dasshole in 2000 as the "fifty-first Democratic Senator."
As for Sanchez, he was the CEO at the time the Mexican Mafia laundered tens of millions of dollars through his bank. In contrast, Cheney had long since retired from Halliburton when it was accused of wrong-doing.
Again, you are obviously a troll from DemocraticUnderground.com.
Would it make you feel better if I said the Dan Rather story killed the meme that Bush did something wrong in the National Guard? I know that Ben Barnes told Dan Rather that he helped Bush into the Guard. But taken as a whole, the fake Dan Rather memo and subsequently discredited testimony from Barnes killed the story. The National Guard story has not returned since the Dan Rather episode. And the Ben Barnes interview was the last gasp of the Dan Rather saga. It killed the story.
Barnes is also not a "conservative Democrat" as you claim. According to his bio on Wikipedia, he was one of eight people who contributed over $500,000 to John Kerry's presidential campaign and was described by Tom Dasshole in 2000 as the "fifty-first Democratic Senator."
Barnes, at the height of his political career in the 1970s, was a protege of John Connally. He was most certainly a conservative Democrat. That is when Sanchez worked for him. The fact that Barnes went of the deep-end later is irrelevent. He was a conservative Democrat. Likewise, at one time Al Gore was a conservative Democrat. He went off the deep end, too. I'm curious of what you think of Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama. In the 1980s, I would say he was a conservative Democrat. Now, he's not a Democrat at all. If you judge people by what they are today, how do you describe Sen. Shelby from the 1980s?
In contrast, Cheney had long since retired from Halliburton when it was accused of wrong-doing.
Halliburton (wrongly in my opinion) has consistently been accused of wrongdoing. When Cheney was CEO of Halliburton, it acquired a manufacturer of asbestos. Is Cheney personally responsible for that.
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