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high muckamuck, muck-a-muck, muckety-muck, etc.: An important, high-ranking person,
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December 2, 2003
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News Articles
- 5/27/2005: Judge
Finds DeLay's PAC in Violation of Texas Law -
A judge rules that a political action committee formed by House Majority
Leader Tom DeLay did violate Texas law...
- 3/3/2005 DeLay
Moves To Protect His Political Base Back in Texas - ...DeLay's
strength in his suburban Houston congressional district of strip malls
and housing developments has
eroded considerably -- forcing him to renew his focus on protecting
his seat. ... DeLay garnered 55 percent of the vote in the November election
against a relatively unknown Democrat, an unusually modest showing for a veteran
House member... Richard Morrison, a lawyer and environmentalist who
was DeLay's opponent in November, has begun raising money online to run again,
using the slogan "real Texas values."...
- 2/28/2005 Defendants' Ties to DeLay Draw Nation's Eyes to Texas Trial ...The trial is expected to produce testimony detailing Mr. DeLay's involvement in raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in corporate donations that were the basis of last year's indictments. The trial may also show that a legal noose is tightening on some of Mr. DeLay's political allies in Texas...
- 2/25/2005 National Journal’s Saturday bombshell: DeLay cited with new House rules violations - The prominent lawyer and former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who is being investigated by federal authorities for his lobbying efforts of an Indian tribe and his relations with House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX), paid for DeLay and DeLay’s staff’s stay in an expensive London hotel...
- Delay
Slimes the House:
"Tom DeLay is not merely covered in political slime – he seems
to ooze it from within." - Jim.Hightower
.com January 17, 2005
- "Ethically
unfit to lead" - Tom DeLay should quit his congressional leadership job after another rebuke from
a House ethics panel, top Democrats said Thursday. And while Republicans rallied around DeLay, Democrats
accused their longtime antagonist of creating an "ethical cloud" over the Capitol. ... "Mr. DeLay has
proven himself ethically unfit to lead the Republican Party," said House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi,
of California. She accused the Republicans' No. 2 man in the House of "a pattern of unethical
behavior by a man determined to win at any cost."
- The
Hammer in the Slammer - 3 Aides to Tom Delay Facing Charges in Fund-Raising
- September 22, 2004
- Tom DeLay's Tainted Ethics Panel
July 15th, 2004 - AlterNet
According to the Associated Press, in mid-June,
Rep. Bell "claimed DeLay illegally solicited campaign contributions in return for legislative favors and laundered
illegal corporate contributions for use in Texas elections.
Bell also alleged that DeLay improperly used his office to solicit help from federal agencies in searching for Democratic legislators
who slipped out of Texas during last year's redistricting fight."
...
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Found amid Enron's rubble: insight into Tom DeLay
July 14th, 2004 - Houston Chronicle
...hard-line social conservatives such as DeLay, who, in the debate over gun control after the Columbine shootings, insisted that juvenile violence is the result of day care, birth control and the teaching of evolution.
...As far back as 1996, one analyst described DeLay as the "chief enforcer of company contributions to Republicans."
...Rep. Chris Bell of Houston, claims, among other things, that DeLay laundered illegal corporate contributions for use in Texas elections
...The Post says it has "at least a dozen" documents showing that DeLay and his associates directed money from corporate donors and lobbyists to an effort to win control of the Texas Legislature so the Republican Party could redraw the state's political districts.
...A 100-year-old Texas law bars corporate financing of state Legislature campaigns. An
inquiry is under way, and DeLay has hired two criminal defense attorneys. Stay tuned.
...DeLay and his fellow hard-liners, whose values are far from the American mainstream, have forged an immensely effective alliance with corporate interests....
...
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The Hammer: How Tom Delay is Taking Secret Corporate Donations to Ensure Republican Control
July 13th, 2004 - Democracy Now
In a major 3,000 word article yesterday, the Washington Post revealed that leading
Republican Congressman Tom Delay sought $100,000 in donations to his political action committee from
Enron's top lobbyists...
- The
Ethics of “The Hammer”
- audio
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Outrage over the Outrage
- audio
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A Cross of Political Infamy - audio
- Play Republican
Survivor! - Read Bio of Republican Survivor character Tom "Pest" Delay
- Fort
Bend County Voter Registration
- Delay Votes
- Juanita and Tom
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A Peak into Political Corruption "the four congress critters who named the price – Reps. Tom DeLay, Joe Barton, Billy Tauzin and Sen. Richard Shelby. The money was paid – and sure enough, Rep. Barton slipped Westar's exemption into the bill.
"- audio
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The ChickenHawk Database "The Gazette's “Chickenhawk
Database” is made up of prominent figures who are big warmongers now, but, who, avoided
being in an actual war when they had the chance. Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft, and Karl Rove – three
Bushites pushing hard for an Iraq attack – are on the Chickenhawk list. So are such Congressional
warmongers as Trent Lott, Phil Gramm, and Tom DeLay..." - audio
- Miserable
failure
- National
PAC gave money to House candidates (AP)
WASHINGTON - U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's national fund-raising committee contributed to
15 Texas legislative candidates whose campaign finances are under a state criminal investigation because of possible improper
contributions during the 2002 election.
- Common
Cause Asks House Ethics Panel for Formal Ruling on DeLay Convention Fundraising Plan “Representative DeLay’s plan could set a dangerous precedent and violate campaign finance law, as well as House ethics rules,” said Chellie Pingree, president of Common Cause. “The
Ethics Committee has an obligation to Congress and the public to make clear what it thinks of this matter.”
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"The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse
than themselves". -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)
Noteable Quotes:
"Being called partisan and vindictive by Tom DeLay is
like being called ugly by a frog." - Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle as reported
in the Dallas Morning News
"I am the federal government."-- Rep. Tom DeLay (Responding to
a security guard who told him to extinguish his cigar in accordance with the law of the federal government.).
Washington Post, May 15, 2003
"A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure. To provide
stability." --
Majority Leader Tom DeLay in an interview with conservative commentator Armstrong Williams
"It's never been proven that air toxics (sic) are hazardous to people." -- Houston Chronicle,
October 27, 1990
"We have a small faction, and they are a minority, who
believe they are there to govern. Then there is the majority of us
who believe that indeed we are there to govern but more importantly
we are there to be an opposition to the Democratic philosophy and the
only way to do that is through confrontation." --
Tom Delay as reported in the Houston Chronicle, April 14, 1991
Cost of the War in Iraq
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