It sounds like a picky point of accounting, at worst. DeLay had $190K of private funds in his PAC. Corporations added $190K more. Delay accounted for the two sums separately within the PAC and doled out the private $190K to purposes that could only be funded privately, keeping the corporate funds for some unspecified future use. The Rat railroaders got fuming mad that Delay did not commingle the funds which of course would bar any of them from being used.
What is odd to me is that it apparently was just fine for the corporations to donate to DeLay. It wasn’t illegal for him to have the money.
For some reason it’s illegal for him, with money that’s on record, to turn around and give that money to someone else.
Where is the harm in that? Seriously, I keep trying to figure out what’s hurtful, harmful, injurious about that, and I just keep drawing a blank. Who, in reality, is hurt when DeLay gives money to BobbyJoCandidate, and how are they hurt?
And how is Charles Rangel who clearly dodged taxes by hiding money that should have been accountable, getting a scolding for a clearly illegal act, but Tom DeLay is liable for 99 years in prison for an act that I can’t figure out the harm in?