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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (47087)	11/4/2005 4:30:59 PM
From: Patricia Trinchero	Respond to of 361734

The trial needs to be held somewhere other than Texas........otherwise Delay will be in charge. Maybe they can try the case in SF! LOL He'll have no pull in that great city!

To: T L Comiskey who wrote (47087)	11/4/2005 4:44:22 PM
From: SiouxPal	Respond to of 361734

New DeLay-Abramoff Connections Raised by Hunter Fri Nov 04, 2005 at 11:25:40 AM PDT dailykos.com This is almost getting funny. Almost. From the New York Times: WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 - Representative Tom DeLay asked the lobbyist Jack Abramoff to raise money for him through a private charity controlled by Mr. Abramoff, an unusual request that led the lobbyist to try to gather at least $150,000 from his Indian tribe clients and their gambling operations, according to newly disclosed e-mail from the lobbyist's files. The electronic messages from 2002, which refer to "Tom" and "Tom's requests," appear to be the clearest evidence to date of an effort by Mr. DeLay, a Texas Republican, to pressure Mr. Abramoff and his lobbying partners to raise money for him. The e-mail messages do not specify why Mr. DeLay wanted the money, how it was to be used or why he would want money raised through the auspices of a private charity. [...] The Justice Department signaled last month that it was investigating the propriety of Mr. DeLay's ties to Mr. Abramoff, including trips that the lobbyist organized for Mr. DeLay and his wife. Mr. Abramoff is under indictment in a separate federal fraud investigation in Florida. A reminder that DeLay's criminal indictment in Texas is just the tip of the iceberg. He's involved in the Abramoff case up to his eyebrows. You know... the last six months have been, well, interesting times. The vaguely soul-healing thing about these indictments is that, by and large, they're going to precisely the people we would expect them to go to, for the reasons everyone would expect to -- finally -- see. DeLay ran roughshod over normal redistricting protocols: it's now biting him in the ass. The Republican lobbyist machine -- the money machine -- has been scorned as rampantly corrupt for a half decade: now, we're seeing the results of investigations erupt all around town. Republican phone jamming scandals, resulting in indictments. We've long marveled at the Republican ties to big business and investment: now Frist himself is being hit with a corruption investigation. (Oh, and anytime we want to start wondering whatever happened to Ken Lay, or whether or not the foam-speckled archconservative Rush Limbaugh is going to face drug charges, hey -- pile it on.) And, of course, the Plame case, which has brought an actual indictment for the politics of personal destruction. And met the most unnecessarily secretive, monarchist of administrations with an obstruction of justice charge for obstructing a criminal investigation. And placed a White House that came into power on accusations of sex-based perjury into a position of defending themselves on national security based perjury charges. It's like there's been a gigantic, smelly hair clog in a karma pipe somewhere (Frist probably flushed down one too many kittens) that's just now come loose, down in the sewers of Washington, and at long last it's flooding the city. Republicans will no doubt continue to wail about the criminalization of politics, faced with a truly remarkable array of investigations, indictments, and, well... felons. But if you don't want politics to become criminalized, the answer would seem to be transparently obvious -- don't commit crimes. Not really sure why that never occurred to them.