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  • DeLay admits to role in hunting for TX Dems (Ridge alleg. criminal investigation of TX DPS!)

    05/22/2003 10:28:29 PM PDT · by GOPcapitalist · 47 replies · 781+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | By R.G. RATCLIFFE and KAREN MASTERSON
    U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay admitted Thursday he provided Texas Speaker Tom Craddick with the same information that state police used to enlist a homeland security agency in the search for runaway Democratic legislators. DeLay said his staff used public information at the Federal Aviation Administration to track former Texas Speaker Pete Laney's airplane. Laney was among 55 Democrats who broke a House quorum on May 12 to kill a congressional redistricting bill sought by DeLay, R-Sugar Land. Craddick and DeLay wanted the errant legislators arrested and returned to the House to force a vote on the bill. "I...