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To: American Spirit who wrote (744)	7/12/2004 3:19:02 PM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 1026

Hey bird-brain, maybe you should first learn the definition of the word "slander"! LOL!!

To: American Spirit who wrote (744)	7/12/2004 4:28:31 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1026

E-mail indicates DeLay's role in fund raising Letter to Enron seems to show he knew funds would go to redistricting By R. JEFFREY SMITH Washington Post RESOURCES WASHINGTON — In May 2001, Enron’s top lobbyists in Washington advised the company chairman that then-House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land, was pressing for a $100,000 contribution to his political action committee, in addition to the $250,000 the company had already pledged to the Republican party that year. DeLay requested that the new donation come from "a combination of corporate and personal money from Enron’s executives," with the understanding that it would be partly spent on "the redistricting effort in Texas," said the e-mail to Ken Lay from lobbyists Rick Shapiro and Linda Robertson. The e-mail, which surfaced in a subsequent federal probe of Enron, is one of at least a dozen documents that show DeLay and his associates directed funds from corporations and Washington lobbyists to Republican campaign coffers in Texas in 2001 and 2002 as part of a plan to redraw the state’s congressional districts. DeLay’s fund-raising efforts produced stunning political success. Republicans took control of the Texas House for the first time in 130 years, Texas congressional districts were redrawn to send more Republican lawmakers to Washington, and Delay, now the House Majority Leader, is more likely to retain his post after the November election. But DeLay and his colleagues face serious legal challenges: Texas law bars corporate financing of state Legislature campaigns, and a Texas criminal prosecutor is digging through the records of the fund raising, looking at possible violations of at least three statutes. A parallel civil lawsuit is seeking $1.5 million in damages from DeLay’s aides and one of his political action committees — Texans for a Republican Majority — on behalf of four defeated Democratic lawmakers. DeLay has not been named as a target of the investigation. The prosecutor is focused on political action committees linked to DeLay and the redistricting effort. But officials in the prosecutor’s office say anyone involved in raising, collecting or spending the corporate funds, who also knew of their intended use in Texas election races, is vulnerable. The documents make clear that DeLay was central to creating and overseeing the fund-raising effort. What the prosecutors are assessing is who knew about the operations of the PAC and how its funds were used to benefit Texas House candidates. DeLay has hired two criminal defense attorneys. Cristen Feldman, the lawyer who filed the civil suit, said in response, "I guess DeLay and his team forgot they were from Texas (where) the prohibition against clandestine corporate cash is 100 years old." Many corporate donors were told in PAC letters that their donations were not "disclosable" in public records. chron.com