Not to Worry - DeLay Is Still Twisting In the Wind
Prosecutor Ronnie Earle has subpoenaed 2002 emails from several of Tom DeLay’s associates who are also under indictment for an illegal campaign finance scheme.
AUSTIN, Texas - Three indicted associates of Republican U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay are being asked to hand over to a Texas prosecutor all their e-mails from 2002 in an investigation into an alleged campaign finance scheme.
DeLay, meanwhile, railed against Democrats in a letter Thursday accusing them of engaging in “the politics of personal destruction.” [Well, Tom, you certainly should recognize it when you see it. And I guess you're right, if you mean you personally brought about your own political destruction.]
The latest subpoenas issued by District Attorney Ronnie Earle request correspondence to and from e-mail addresses belonging to John Colyandro, Jim Ellis and Warren RoBold. He did not ask DeLay to provide e-mails.
Colyandro was executive director of Texans for a Republican Majority, a political action committee founded by DeLay. Ellis runs DeLay’s national fund-raising committee, Americans for a Republican Majority, and RoBold is a Republican fund-raiser in Washington.
Prosecutors allege that DeLay and his associates funneled corporate money given to the Texas committee to an arm of the Republican National Committee, which sent it back to seven GOP candidates for the Texas Legislature. Texas law prohibits corporate money from being used directly in a political campaign.
DeLay, Ellis and Colyandro are charged with conspiracy and money laundering. Colyandro and RoBold are charged with accepting or making restricted corporate donations….
….In a letter prepared for the Republican Party newsletter in DeLay’s home county of Fort Bend, he linked his case to investigations into possible misconduct by White House adviser Karl Rove and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.
“What we’re fighting is so much larger than a single court case or a single district attorney in Travis County,” DeLay wrote. “We are witnessing the criminalization of conservative politics.” [So you admit that conservative politics are rife with corruption?]
Poor Tom. He’s just mad because he got caught. I’m sure he thought he was too powerful to be brought to account. But when you do everything you can to bring down a sitting president because of sex, you do leave yourself open to a little karmic payback.