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"Money is the lifeblood of politics."
www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=142
posted by kayobee
2004-09-09 01:13:24

Delay = Political Corruption
posted by JAK
2005-07-12 03:44:06

Tom Delay has received a Bill of Indictment for a felony from the State of Texas on 9/28/2005. He had to step down as House Majority Leader pending the outcome of his indictment.

www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0928051delay1.html
posted by yankhadenuf
2005-10-01 13:54:54

  
Tom DeLay
Type Individual
Position US Representative from Texas
Political Party Republican
Created by kayobee

  
Tom DeLay's Friends
Christine DeLay
Husband and wife

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Ed Buckham
Buckham is a former chief of staff for DeLay

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Enron
DeLay and a cadre of close political advisers operated at the center of an Enron-backed crusade for energy deregulation in the late 1990s.

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Texans for a Republican Majority
Tom Delay's PAC which is currently under criminal investigation.

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Council for National Policy
Member

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Americans for a Republican Majority
Chairman


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Campaign for Working Families (CWF) PAC
Endorsed/funded


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Dennis Hastert
DeLay is the Majority Leader to Hastert's Speaker.

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Young Republican National Federation
Supporter


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Stuart Roy
Former Communications Director


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Leadership Institute
Member, "Bi-Partisan Congressional Advisory Board" (2004)


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Jack Abramoff
Tom and Jack are associated in the Council for National Policy.

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Koch Industries
Oil giant Koch gave DeLay $53,000.


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The Anti-Clinton Jihad
Participated in it.


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Michael Scanlon
Scanlon ... was a reporter-friendly spokesman for then-House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) in 2000 when he quit Capitol Hill to join forces with Abramoff. Soon he was raking in a seven-figure sala...

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Roy Blunt
friends, Republican congressional leaders


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Katherine Harris
They're both crooks


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Benigno R. Fitial
Host of Tom Delay's trips to the Islands


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Donald Young
Good Ol Buddies in the House of Representatives


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Draft Dodgers
Successfully dodged military service.


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Grover Norquist
DeLay and Norquist partnered to create the "K Street Project" to pressure Washington lobbying firms to hire Republicans in top positions.


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K Street Project
The K Street Project was launched in 1995, by Republican strategist Grover Norquist and House majority leader Tom DeLay.


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Alexander Strategy Group
Alexander Strategy Group was founded by Edwin A. Buckham, a close friend of Mr. DeLay's and his former chief of staff,


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John T. Doolittle
Reps. John T. Doolittle and Richard W. Pombo joined forces with former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas to oppose an investigation by federal banking regulators into the affairs of Houston mi...


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Charles E. Hurwitz
The effort to help Hurwitz began in 1999 when DeLay wrote a letter to the chairman of the FDIC denouncing the investigation of Hurwitz as a "form of harassment and deceit on the part of government em...


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John Boehner
The man who Boehner replaced as House Majority Leader.

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N.A.S.A.
Indicted and forced to step down in the House DeLay landed a spot with responsibility for NASA and the Johnson Space Center in his district.

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Abramoff-Reed Indian Casino Scandal
Forced down with his indictment, DeLay is now on the subcommittee overseeing the Justice Department investigating the Abramoff scandal. What will they find?


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clay Shaw
Has given and received campaign contributions as well voted for weakening ethics rules for Delay. Nearly identical voting record


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Embassy of Malaysia
Attendees posted as a close look at a congressional trip to Malaysia in 2001 targeting not just Majority Leader Tom DeLay, but also the founder of the influential Heritage Foundation.


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Americans for a Republican Majority (ARMPAC)
In 1994 he inaugurated his first "leadership PAC" --Americans for a Republican Majority (ARMPAC). It was created to raise money which DeLay could then parcel out to House members he wanted to influen...


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Gazprom
The Moscow portion of the DeLay trip was sponsored by A.O. NaftaSib, a Russian oil company tied to Chernomyrdin. NaftaSib describes itself as "a major shareholder" in Gazprom.


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Brooks Brothers Riot Squad
No. 1. Tom Pyle, who had worked for Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), went private sector a few months later, getting a job as director of federal affairs for Koch Industries.


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Mike Ferguson
Ferguson has received $54,403 from Tom Delay and his PAC since running for Congress for the first time in 1998

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Ariel Center for Policy Research
The ACPR web site contains a section entitled "Isreal's Friends", which consists of three speeches made by Thomas D. DeLay (R-Tx), former House Majority Leader force to step down amid charges in the ...


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Doc Hastings
Hastings, Republican chair of the House Ethics Committee, refuses to hold hearings on Tom Delay's money-laundering and illegal contributions by lobbyists like Jack Abramoff.


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Celebrations for Children
DeLay founded this "charity," which ended up paying to host Republican Party fundraisers.


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Susan Hirschmann
Lobbyist Hirschmann was DeLay's Chief of Staff.


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Triad Management, Inc.
Triad Management Services is a Tom DeLay-affiliated organization that launders money from large corporations into congressional campaigns.


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Tony Rudy
Tony Rudy, DeLay's former deputy chief of staff, admitted to conspiring with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff both while Rudy worked for DeLay and after he left the lawmaker's staff to become a lobby...


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Linda Feulner
GOP lobbyist, Linda Feulner and her husband joined then-Majority Whip DeLay and the rest of the 2001 congressional delegation during their Malaysia stops.


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John Culberson
Culberson's cites DeLay's "Republican principles" as the reason Republicans just adore the li'l lobbyist-lover.


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David Dreier
Dreier defended the hypocritical ethics rule change designed to protect the disgraced DeLay.


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Northern Mariana Islands
Part of Abramoff's lobbying, DeLay took a trip with his family and staff. Enron hired Ed Buckham, DeLay's former chief of staff, to lobby for their interests in a new power plant in CMNI.


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John Tyson
Tyson was a campaign supporter.


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Skyway Communications Holding Corp.
The scandal involving the RNC and DeLay apointee Brent Kovar, Skyway owner, busted for smuggling 5.5 TONS of cocaine is below with links.


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Brent C Kovar
Kovar is CEO and owner of the aircraft painted to look a US DEA plane and busted for 5.5 tons of cocaine. Despite bankrupting Skyway DeLay appointed him to a business development post. details below


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Duncan Hunter
Hunter has voted the way DeLay wanted 91% of the time, including a vote to weaken ethics rules.


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Lawrence Small
Embattled Smithsonian head Small gave DeLay at least $500 in 1997 alone.


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Willie Tan
DeLay gutted labor reform to help out Tan


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Hurricane Katrina
DeLay asked three young hurricane refugees: "Now tell me the truth, boys, is this kind of fun?"


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Belle Haven Consultants
Helped pay a trip for Tom DeLay to go to Malaysia


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Tom DeLay's Stolen Congress
Since the American media is in the same corporate pockets as the politicians truth is in the independent films. This one reveals the sell out.


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Van Hilleary
DeLay's money laundering organizations have funnelled over $17,000 to Van Hilleary since 1994.


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Ed Bryant
Bryant has taken over $11,500 from DeLay's money-laundering organizations since 1994.


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Family Research Council
FRC has become the leading Religious Right group in the nation's capital and enjoys a close relationship with the GOP leadership including Frist and DeLay.


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Dick DeVos
Contributor to DeLay's campaign and legal defense fund.

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Lou Sheldon
Met privately to discuss the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act, DeLay would announce his opposition to the Act later.


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Harris County Republican Party
Supporter

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Barbara Bonfiglio
Lobbyist Bonfiglio was secretary of Tom DeLay's phony "charity" Celebrations for Children, that paid for such needy causes as Republican Party fundraisers.


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Mark Foley
Creepy Foley was, um, "deputy whip under Tom Delay."


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Chris Chocola
Chocola voted to weaken House ethics rules when DeLay needed it.


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Greg Walden
Walden voted to weaken House ethics rules when DeLay needed it.


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Chicken Hawks
Conflict Avoided: Vietnam Notes: One of our most-nominated chickenhawks, Mr. DeLay has said he wanted to serve in Vietnam, but was unable to since all the positions had been taken by blacks and hispa...


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Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America
Loophole worth about $200 million in taxpayer welfare to oil and gas. Championed by disgraced former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, the oil and gas subsidy was slipped late one night into...


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Heather Shuvalov
Olsen & Shuvalov's client list reads like a who's who of Texas politics, including the state Republican Party and prominent Republicans Gov. Rick Perry, Attorney General Greg Abbott, Sen. John Cornyn...


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Mike Toomey
The class of 1983 in the Texas House included Hammond, Tom DeLay, Tom Craddick, the current Speaker’s gatekeeper-lobbyist Bill Messer, Republican consultant Bill Ceverha, and Gov. Rick Perry’s chief ...


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Texas Association of Business (TAB)
2003 article - Fast-forward almost 100 years. In Austin, Texas, home to the Public Integrity Unit of the Travis County District Attorney, a grand jury is empanelled. Its mission is to investigate one...


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Scot M. Faulkner
Mr. Faulkner was CAO and served with Rep. Delay in the 104th Congress.


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emotive, llc
Web Services Provider


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The Council for National Policy CNP
On the 1996 and 1998 membership rosters, full list at Jesse Helms connection. Congressman Tom DeLay Washington, D.C., United States House of Representatives


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Patriot Act Imperial Justice
The politicization of Justice went well beyond hiring practices, according to Rich, extending to efforts to "influence elections." Schlozman, he says, was part of a group of political appointees that...


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H. Res 252
Quote Roy Blunt - I introduced this resolution 2 weeks ago, and I want to thank the gentleman from Illinois (Speaker Hastert), our majority leader, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay), our conferenc...


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International Monetary Fund
In December 2005, the Washington Post reported that, in 1998, a group of Russian oil executives had given money to a non-profit advocacy group run by a former DeLay staffer and funded by clients of l...


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Congress
After being indicted on September 28, 2005, Congressman DeLay stepped down from his position as Majority Leader. He was the first congressional "leader" ever to be indicted.


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Crimes and Lawbreakers
Congressman DeLay stepped down from his position as Majority Leader. He was the first congressional "leader" ever to be indicted and the list of criminal activities is long.


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John Ashcroft
January 2006, The Associated Press reported that in 2001, DeLay co-signed a letter to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft calling for the closure of a casino owned by the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of T...


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Scott Garrett
According to the Washington Post report, Garrett was 1 of only 8 Members of Congress to wrongly accept all-expense paid trips sponsored by agents of foreign governments and arranged by Edwin A. Buckh...


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Joe Lieberman
U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman requested an investigation into the Congressman's involvement in the requests, and asked that any White House involvement be reported. The House Ethics Committee admonis...


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2005 Energy Bill
Title IX, Subtitle J - This section would provide $1.5 billion in direct payments to oil and natural gas corporations to drill in deepwater wells. This section is a pet project of Texas Republican an...


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Sam Fox
"Fox chairs the national Republican Jewish Coalition. He and Pioneer coalition members Ned Siegel and Fred Zeidman accompanied House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on his 2003 trip to Israel.


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Rick Santorum
Santorum isn't the only member of Congress with his own[questionable] charity. Former House Speaker Tom Delay also established a non-profit. His charity's secretary was Barbara Bonfiglio, the same lo...


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