This was written two years ago. I cut a lot of it for brevity's sake, but the link is at the bottom. The author must be breathing easier today. :): BEYOND REDEMPTION: The Crimes of Tom Delay
by Cheryl Seal Wednesday December 03, 2003 at 01:16 AM
Warmonger, liar, scam artist, religious and racial bigot, sociopathic bully, corporate whore....and the most powerful man on Capitol Hill.
Introduction Senator Tom Delay of Texas - a thoroughly miserable excuse for a human being - has made it his personal life's work to zealously undermine everything most of us in this nation hold dear - like compassion, honesty, democracy, freedom, and justice. He has gained and hung onto power not through talent, diplomacy, or even winning the respect and affection of colleagues. He has done it through such systematic intimidation of anyone who questions him that he is nicknamed the "Hammer." As in cold steel and claws in place of a soul and heart. Even Bush is afraid of Delay - just like weaker playground bullies always cower in corners when a bigger, meaner, more sociopathical bully comes along. As a result, he continues to allow Delay to alienate in increasing numbers the very people who could actually help this floundering administration out - and believe me, it needs help.
Tom Delay enrages me because I believe America deserves better - so, so, so much better. There is not one of us who would want our child to be in a school presided over by a cruel despot who shames, intimidates, threatens, lies, cheats and steals. Yet we allow our entire goverment to be presided over by just such a person. What the hell is wrong with the people of Texas? And even more, what the hell is wrong with the Republican Party that it has allowed itself to fall to this abysmal depth?
If you think this is hysterical hyperbole, just keep reading...to the end. That is, if you can stomach the facts you will find here.
Nov 2000:
Delay Tries to Intimidate Supreme Court Judges to Fix Election Outcome
"Those who cherish the idea of judicial independence can only be chilled by Mr. DeLay's utter contempt for it. Listen to him, as quoted in The Washington Post in September 1997: "The judges need to be intimidated. They need to uphold the Constitution." If they don't behave, he said, "we're going to go after them in a big way." --Bob Herbert, NYT
nytimes.com
Nov 28 2000:
Tom Delay Finances Trip of 'Rioters' to Florida to Disrupt the Presidential Election Recount
The Miami-Dade thugs included 200 Capitol Hill aides rounded up by Tom DeLay's staff and sent on an all-expenses paid trip, paid for by the Bush campaign. Right up front on television images were Thomas Pyle, an aide DeLay, and Michael Murphy, who works for a DeLay fund-raising committee. That evening, the vigilantes received a congratulatory call from George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, who joked about the riot. Then Wayne Newton sang to them - unbelievably - in German.
Dec. 2000:
Washington Post Scrubs Photo of Florida Rioters that Shows Delay's Staff
Here's the mirrorered version:
washingtonpost.com
Feb 2001 (report on campaign 2000):
Delay's Daughter Launders $60,000 in Donations in 2000 for Daddy
amarillonet.com
January 2001:
Delay uses Corporate Slush Fund to Finance Ads Attacking Democrats Who Oppose Ashcroft's Nomination
washingtonpost.com
April 12, 2001:
Delay Sells Meetings with Bush to Top GOP Donors
April 27 2001:
Delay Scam Targets Small Business Owners
May, 2001:
Tom Delay Brags That His Strategy Is To Kick People When they Are Down
June 2001:
Tom Delay Bilks Doctors in Boiler Room Scam
Comment from same week:
Phony 'Watchdog' Group Judicial Watch Looks Other Way as Delay Defrauds Public
Judicial Watch went after Bill Clinton and everyone he had ever so much as sent a Xmas card to, hammering away in the name of 'justice' for months and months. Now, just since January, Karl Rove and Bush operatives have blatantly committed white collar crimes deserving jail time. The refusal of Cheney to reveal the task force names is a FEDERAL offense, while his and Shrub's past business dealings (Halliburton, et al.) make Whitewater look like a small town crap game. Tom Delay was caught red-handed several times in highly unethical fund-raising scams, including a scheme to fleece doctors. The White House has called for a settlement of a major tobacco suit while accepting money THE SAME week from the industry. Do we hear of Judicial Watch anywhere on the scene of these crimes? Of course not! They are now too busy trying to drum up yet another case against the Clintons. We say, why doesn't someone investigate Judicial Watch... we bet that's where the richest dirt vein can be found.
July 2001:
Tom Delay, Former Exterminator, Wants to Allow Extensive and Undisclosed Use of Pesticides in Elementary Schools
washingtonpost.com
July 2001:
Tom Delay Helps Hastert in Push to Block Patient's Bill of Rights
May, 2002:
: Media, Judicial Watch, and Congress Continue to Look other Way as Doctors are Preyed on By Delay Boiler Room Scam
abcnews.go.com
January 2002:
Tom Delay Used Enron Money to Fund Political Racketeering
Feb. 2002:
Tom Delay Fights to Block Campaign Finance Reform
Call your Representative today (202-224-3121) and demand a clean vote on Shays-Meehan campaign finance reform.
Feb. 2002:
Tom Delay Refuses to Return Money to Enron Employees
April 2002:
Delay Claims Only Christians Know what's best for Nation
washingtonpost.com
tompaine.com
May 16, 02:
Tom Delay Financial 'Godfather' Implicated in Mob Murder
alternet.org
Feb 2003:
Tom Delay Smears Firefighters as "Threat to National Security"!!
May 2003:
Tom Delay Uses Homeland Security and State Police Resources to Terrorize Political Opponents
">http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0514-07.htm
June 2003:
Delay and 15 other GOP Congresscreeps Accused of Taking Bribes from Energy Corporation seeking favors
sfgate.com
So has Ashcroft done a goddamned thing about this? Of course not! Ashcroft, like Bush, dance like marionettes to the Cockroach's sick tunes
June, 2003:
Delay Blocks Efforts to Restore Tax Cuts to Poor Families left Out of Bush Plan
August 15, 2003:
Record Shows that Democratic Efforts to Upgrade Electrical Grid to Prevent Blackouts was Ridiculed and Blocked by DELAY
thedailyenron.com
October, 2003:
Memo Is Smoking Gun Proof of Tom Delay's Collusion with Enron
To: Ken Lay and Steve Kean
From: Enron governmental affairs executives Rick Shapiro and Linda Robertson
Date: June 1, 2001
Subject: The President's Dinner, A Congressional Salute Honoring President Bush and Vice President Cheney, June 7, 2001With the assistance of... TOM DELAY, we were able to apply our previously contributed soft money toward this dinner.
salon.com
Oct. 13 2003:
Tom Delay Thumbs His Nose at the Will of 80% of Americans And Blocks Efforts to Overturn Hated FCC Corporate Giveaway
Oct. 2003:
Bush Cowers as Delay Guts the Americorps Program
time.com
Nov. 22 03:
Thug Delay Steals Medicare From the Elderly by Threatening fellow Congressfolk
The final hall of shame vote:http://clerk.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.exe?year=2003&rollnumber=669 "Texas Democrats have subpoenaed House Majority Leader Tom DeLay as a witness in a lawsuit to overturn a congressional district map DeLay helped push through the Texas Legislature. Democrats want to depose DeLay and Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, but are expecting the Texas Republican to fight the subpoena, said Tom Eisenhauer, an aide to Rep. Martin Frost, D-Texas. Eisenhauer said DeLay should respond to the subpoena because he openly pushed for the new map. 'Tom Delay is happy to brag about his new map until he has to take an oath to tell the truth. What does he have to hide now?' Eisenhauer said. 'He was the instigator, facilitator and author of the new map, that's why they want to depose him about it.' DeLay spokesman Stuart Roy said attorneys 'would take appropriate action' in response to the subpoenas. He said a response would be filed Monday
Nov. 2 03:
ow Tom Delay Engineered a Junta-style Takeover of the Texas Government
Nov. 2003:
Tom Delay Aggressively Promotes and Defends War Profiteering in Iraq
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