Wondering what DeLay’s phone records might lead to?

Posted by Connecticut Man1 | Oct 14, 2005 | 16 |

More phone records, of course!

Democrats question timing of 2002 GOP donations

Rep. Tom DeLay’s political action committee, Americans for a Republican Majority, gave $5,000 to the state Republican Party on Nov. 1, 2002, four days before the election in which Republican John Sununu won his Senate seat by defeating former Democratic Gov. Jeanne Shaheen.

Four days earlier, the state party received $5,000 each from two Indian tribes represented by Jack Abramoff, a lobbyist with close ties to DeLay. Together, the three donations nearly equal the $15,600 Republicans paid a telemarketing firm to make repeated hang-up calls to the Democratic phone banks.

DeLay recently stepped down as House majority leader after being indicted in Texas on conspiracy and money laundering charges. Abramoff also has been charged in an ongoing federal corruption and fraud investigation.

“It just so happens that the money came into New Hampshire just a matter of days before the phone jamming. Is it just a coincidence? I don’t know, but that’s a question I’d like to get an answer to,” said Democratic Party Chairwoman Kathy Sullivan, who argues that the tribes would have no reason to spend money in New Hampshire. “What you have here is the sound of two scandals colliding.”

I wonder how long it will be before the GJ in NH takes action against DeLay and Abramoff?

“Drop the Gavel” on DeLay and Abramoff!

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Connecticut Man1 on October 14, 2005 at 10:59 am

The GOP plumbers tried to fix the leaky faucet (“drip, drip, drip”) and, not surprisingly, they broke it!

Just a flood of info coming out these days, huh?
catnip on October 14, 2005 at 11:55 am

Via AP:

Papers: DeLay Group Used $100K for Races

WASHINGTON – Tom DeLay’s political group used nearly $100,000 in corporate and unlimited donations to mail last-minute political appeals praising five congressional candidates despite rules meant to keep such money out of federal races, documents released Thursday show.

The records also detail payments DeLay’s group made to Jim Ellis and Warren Robold, two longtime fundraisers indicted in Texas in the same state campaign finance case as DeLay. All three men say they are innocent in that case.

The documents from the Federal Election Commission’s audit of DeLay’s Americans for a Republican Majority PAC (ARMPAC) were obtained by Political Money Line, a group that studies campaign fundraising.

They show DeLay’s ARMPAC sent money from its so-called soft-money account before the November 2002 election to pay for mailings for such candidates as Indiana Republican Chris Chocola, who won election to the House that year.

more…

I guess DeLay’s lawyer will be issuing a subpoena on PoliticalMoneyLine now like he did with Ronnie Earle to prove how corrupt they are. 😉

Stick a fork in DeLay. He’s done.
- Connecticut Man1 on October 14, 2005 at 1:13 pm
  
  There is just so much news coming out in the last couple of weeks it is near impossible to keep up! (Especially if you are a slow reader like I am. I am still catching up on last weeks news. lol)
  
  The really big “DeLay & Abramoff” money seems to get a lot of media time. I liked this one that I found because it is really a nickel and dime one in comparison… But it had a large impact on the NH election outcomes.
  
  There are only about 5 or 10 Republicans in Congress that were NOT tainted by DeLay and Abramoff money directly being infused to their campaigns. But I bet they still had some sent their way through backdoors like this “Phone Jamming” scam, and dozens of other illegal and manipulative ways that only a GOP fraudster would love.
Nag on October 14, 2005 at 12:07 pm

DeLay will not go quietly. An anti-Ronnie Earle ad is currently running on Austin, Tx. television. The Free Enterprise Fund, a DC based advocacy group paid for the ad. That commercial should be seen as a cornered animal snarling at its captors. I am offended by that ad, and I haven’t even seen it.

I hope they subpoena everything he’s ever touched. That would piss off the arrogant little bug even more.
- Connecticut Man1 on October 14, 2005 at 1:19 pm
  
  I haven’t seen it either. But I did see the link off to it over at C&L. Someone really should come up with a an ad campaign of “DeLay the coporate-lap-dog” as it wets itself from the sight of the attack dogs being unleashed. Maybe they could cast DeLay as a poodle or something else appropriate? lol
- ATinNM on October 14, 2005 at 1:48 pm
  
  “Don’t know much about lawyer-ing”
  
  An investigation into where the money is coming from for these ads might be productive.
  - Connecticut Man1 on October 14, 2005 at 1:55 pm
    
    I think it is “Texans for Truth”?
    
    But I would have to check that out.
    - ATinNM on October 14, 2005 at 4:12 pm
      
      Wikipedia entry says, “Texans for Truth is a political advocacy organization, registered under Section 527 of the United States tax code, formed to oppose George W. Bush’s re-election efforts in the 2004 presidential election.”
      
      Methinks they wouldn’t be funding Delay’s TV ads attacking Earle.
      - Connecticut Man1 on October 14, 2005 at 5:41 pm
        
        Here ya go:
        
        Free Enterprise Fund Staff, Fellows, and Policy Council
        
        Staff
        
        Mallory Factor – Chairman
        E. O’Brien Murray – Executive Director
        Steve Goodrick – Vice President for Strategic Programs
        Lawrence A. Hunter, Ph.D. – Vice President & Chief Economist
        Peter Roff – Vice President
        Lynn Bradshaw – Membership Director
        Phil Kerpen – Policy Director
        Todd S. Schorle – Communication Director
        Bill Claybrook – Membership Coordinator
        
        Policy Council
        Jack Kemp – Policy Council Co-Chairman
        Lawrence Kudlow – Policy Council Co-Chairman
        Arthur Laffer – Policy Council Co-Chairman
        
        Fellows
        Peter Ferrara – Senior Fellow, Director of the Social Security Project
        James P Pinkerton – Senior Fellow
        
        Some recognizable names there. lol
        
        They are hosting the video here…
      - Connecticut Man1 on October 14, 2005 at 5:46 pm
        
        Amanda at think progress had this:
        
        A new advertisement by the Free Enterprise Fund compares Travis County DA Ronnie Earle to an attack dog. (Watch the video here.) The ads will be saturating airwaves in Austin, Earle’s hometown, but will also be running nationally on Fox News.
        
        Mallory Factor, chairman of FEF and a Bush campaign Ranger, explains the motivation behind the video:
        
        By pushing grand juries to issue politically motivated indictments of prominent Republicans, Ronnie Earle is trying to make it a crime to be conservative, to support an agenda of lower taxes and less government. That’s un-American.
        
        It’s not a widely held view. Only 24 percent of the public thinks that Earle’s charges against DeLay are politically motivated. Sixty-five percent think the indictments suggest illegal activity by DeLay. (Read the truth about Ronnie Earle here.)
        
        FEF’s defense of Tom DeLay is a “six-figure project” according to Peter Ruff, a vice president at FEF. The group was founded by right-wing activist Stephen Moore, formerly of the Club for Growth, whom the New Republic calls, “A voodoo economist…[who uses] especially devious methods to torture the data.” Moore has called DeLay “a conservative hero” and describes himself as a “Tom DeLay fan.”
        
        Tip to Crooks & Liars for these links…
      - Connecticut Man1 on October 14, 2005 at 5:53 pm
        
        Even some conservatives have begun to distance themselves. “The Tom DeLay machine that he built, there were corruptive elements to it,” said Stephen Moore, a longtime conservative activist who sat at the head table at a recent dinner celebrating DeLay’s career. Moore, who founded the Free Enterprise Fund, still describes himself as a “Tom DeLay fan,” who considers the congressman a “conservative hero.” But he has misgivings as well. “All of these guys getting rich off this process rubs some conservatives the wrong way,” Moore said. “It’s going to be difficult for Tom to recover from this no matter what happens.”
        
        Apparently Moore has so many misgivings about DeLay’s behaviour that he had to go out and start a campaign in support of it? lmao
      - Connecticut Man1 on October 14, 2005 at 5:55 pm
        
        WHOOPS!
        
        Forgot the link to the last one!
      - Connecticut Man1 on October 14, 2005 at 6:08 pm
        
        And of course… Save the best for last:
        
        Ask Free Enterprise Fund: Why Aren’t Sex Slaves Featured in Your Ads?
        
        The Free Enterprise Fund (a right-wing group directed by CNBC’s Larry Kudlow and supply-side hack Jack Kemp) has purchased “well over $100,000” in television ads to defend Tom Delay. They say the ads will target the “liberal media and government” who “have been attacking free market principles and DeLay,” a great supporter of those principles.
        
        ThinkProgress could not be happier.
        
        For weeks we’ve been trying to get the media to pay attention to DeLay’s greatest free market accomplishment — what DeLay calls his “perfect Petri dish of capitalism. It’s like my Galapagos island” — the Northern Mariana islands. There, human “brokers” bring thousands of mostly young girls to work as sex slaves and in festering sweatshop garment factories (clothes there can be made with a misleading “Made in USA” tag since the islands are U.S. territory). And for years DeLay has “helped lead the fight” to keep it that way.
        
        This is Tom DeLay’s free enterprise dream — sweatshops, exploitation, and zero employee rights. When he visited the islands in `97, DeLay toasted the sweatshop owners as a “shining light” who represented “everything that is good about what we are trying to do in America and leading the world in the free market system.” Last week DeLay said the workers there are “beautiful people who are happy about what’s happening.”
        
        So, Free Enterprise Fund, please, please share this dream with America. Go to the Marianas and visit the sweatshops and show America how “happy” the workers are. You’re our last hope.
        
        Think Progress is always a great resource for this crap! lol
      - ATinNM on October 15, 2005 at 1:53 pm
        
        Thank you for the links.
        
        And thank heavens for that Anger Management class I took!
Knoxville Progressive on October 14, 2005 at 12:51 pm

At this point, “Bugsy” DeLay should be worried about a Raid, LOL.
- Connecticut Man1 on October 14, 2005 at 1:56 pm
  
  “Bugsy” DeLay… lol
  
  I remember those Raid ads from the 70s.

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