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To: Richnorth who wrote (71699)	12/16/2005 12:27:48 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

Inside Politics By Greg Pierce December 16, 2005 Angry prosecutor Ronnie Earle, the Travis County, Texas, district attorney, is apparently furious about a television advertisement that accuses him of being politically motivated in winning an indictment of Rep. Tom DeLay, Texas Republican. Mr. Earle's office has responded by notifying the ad's sponsor, the Free Enterprise Fund (FEF), that he plans to subpoena the District-based organization. The TV ad, which saturated airwaves in Austin, Texas, said: "A partisan prosecutor with a political agenda can be a dangerous thing," and compared Mr. Earle to a snarling, vicious dog. A draft of the subpoena provided to the FEF says the group's executive director must travel to Texas and "provide the Travis County District Attorney's office with any and all documentation regarding the advertisements that have been produced or paid for by the Free Enterprise Fund, including any and all information regarding media buys by the Free Enterprise Fund for those advertisements that have run in Austin, Texas." The Texas subpoena must be cleared by a D.C. court before it can be presented to the FEF. What Mr. Earle wants, a source with special knowledge of the request tells this column, is a copy of the organization's donor list, so he can find out who paid for the ads.