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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ed Huang who wrote (5476)	7/15/2004 12:41:24 PM
From: Crimson Ghost	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Those Israeli "spies" were probably Mossad hit men.

To: Ed Huang who wrote (5476)	7/15/2004 1:55:30 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Cong. Tom Delay, majority House leader and chief Ziochristian in Congress, illegally solicits money from Enron for political favors: DeLay Solicited Corporate Money for Texas Redistricting? Agnosticism/Atheism Blog July 12, 2004 DeLay Solicited Corporate Money for Texas Redistricting? Tom DeLay was a major force in the effort to redraw Texas district lines in a way that favored Republican candidates. This received a fair amount of negative attention, but his popularity at home didn’t suffer for it. New reports that he solicited money from Enron for the redistricting effort, though, just might cause problems. The Washington Post reveals an email in which one of Enron‘s lobbyists informed the company that DeLay was pressing for a $100,000 contribution to his political action committee: 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 Kenneth L. Lay from lobbyists Rick Shapiro and Linda Robertson. ... Many corporate donors were explicitly told in TRMPAC letters that their donations were not "disclosable" in public records. But documents from several unrelated investigations offer an exceptional glimpse of how corporate money was able to influence state politics -- and also of DeLay's bold use of his network of corporate supporters to advance his agenda. DeLay's fundraising efforts helped produce a 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 powerful post after the November election, according to political experts. Political corruption? Using massive corporate funding in order to rig elections in favor of one’s own party and in order to retain personal political power? It’s illegal in Texas (as well as several other states) to use corporate money to fund legislative campaigns and it is arguable that the effort to redraw district lines was just that. If DeLay was intimately involved about what was going on, he could face 10 years in jail. I wonder how long it will be before someone comes along to argue that there is nothing inappropriate or unethical about corporations spending tens of thousands of dollars to support redistricting that favors a political party they already donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to. Well, at least Tom DeLay wasn’t caught having sex with an intern in his office. Unlike this little situation, that could have been really serious.