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He's a Texas lawman. Next question: Then why are House majority leader Tom Delay,the Republican party, and some of the biggest corporations in the country so afraid of him? Today started with lawyers for a big-shot Washington fundraiser and a couple of large corporations who showed up in court for a quick legal version of whining and moaning, asking for a continuance until...well, never would be good. Then he had three quick staff meetings to plot his strategy for climbing the ladder of evidence to Tom DeLay, the most powerful and vindictive man in Congress. Now an assistant comes in...

In a letter to Congress, the Texas Democrats have accused former Montana Gov. Marc Racicot of illegal fund-raising, money laundering and endangering a Houston neighborhood. No proof accompanied their accusations. Party Chairman Charles Soechting sent the letter to the House Ethics Committee in July. He accused Mr. Racicot of putting together the alleged money-laundering scheme that has embroiled Speaker of the House Tom Delay’s Texans for a Republican Majority in scandal. The letter also accused Mr. Racicot of raising illegal corporate money for TRMPAC and of using his influence to obtain a right of way for a train that would...

In a familiar pattern, following Republican successes in the voting booth, Travis County’s Democratic District Attorney Ronnie Earle today indicted a bunch of the GOP’s corporate supporters, including Cracker Barrel and Sears, and three employees of a PAC Tom DeLay is on the advisory board of. Corporate contributions to PACs are not illegal in Texas. While corporate contributions to candidates are illegal; TRMPAC never gave corporate contributions to candidates and that is one of the main arguments in their defense. The indictments from Earle’s third grand jury follow a two year investigation. In 1993, Earle indicted Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison...