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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: A. Geiche who wrote (492983)	11/15/2003 3:15:47 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

A Candidate for our Times: twain2004.com

To: A. Geiche who wrote (492983)	11/15/2003 4:35:27 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769670

SLIMEBALL PLAN TO PARTY HARDY IN NEW YORK CITY BASED ON SCAM -- GOP steals from orphans and widows.... This is fabulously hypocritical: Outrage of the year House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) is getting around campaign finance laws by making up a charity, putting his family and cronies in charge of it, and soliciting enormous donations from his political supporters. Mr. DeLay's charity, Celebrations for Children Inc., was set up in September and has no track record of work. Mr. DeLay is not a formal official of the charity, but its managers are Mr. DeLay's daughter, Dani DeLay Ferro; Craig Richardson, a longtime adviser; and Rob Jennings, a Republican fund-raiser. Mr. Richardson said the managers would be paid by the new charity. He plans to funnel part of the money for "events" including luxury suites at the 2004 Republican convention. But aides to Mr. DeLay, the House majority leader from Texas, acknowledged that part of the money would go to pay for late-night convention parties, a luxury suite during President Bush's speech at Madison Square Garden and yacht cruises. Because it's technically a charity — a children's charity, for heaven's sake — donors can take a tax deduction and DeLay won't have to report who is giving him the money. And Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is next. Other lawmakers may well follow Mr. DeLay's lead. Already Senator Bill Frist, the majority leader, is planning to hold a concert and a reception in conjunction with the convention as a way of raising money for AIDS charities. Creating charities to skirt campaign finance laws. These people have no shame. democrats.org