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Catherine Vincent

(34,490 posts)
Sat Sep 22, 2012, 04:35 PM Sep 2012

Tom Delay is praying for his enemies :)

Tom DeLay still waiting to learn legal fate

Saturday, September 22, 2012 | Updated: Saturday, September 22, 2012 2:35pm

HOUSTON (AP) — Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay — still waiting to learn his legal fate since being convicted nearly two years ago for his role in a scheme to influence Texas elections — is praying for vindication but also preparing for the possibility of imprisonment.

DeLay's three-year prison sentence has been on hold as his case has made its way through the appellate process. For both DeLay and his critics, the process has been frustratingly slow, due in part to some of the appeals court justices in Austin recusing themselves as well as DeLay's successful effort to have a judge on the panel removed because of anti-Republican comments she made.

"I don't like living under this cloud. But I'm not angry about it. I even pray for the prosecution and my enemies," the former Houston-area congressman told The Associated Press in an interview. "No, they have not destroyed Tom DeLay as a person. And I'm ready to go to prison if that's where I'm supposed to end up."

http://www.chron.com/news/article/Tom-DeLay-still-waiting-to-learn-legal-fate-3885946.php

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Tom Delay is praying for his enemies :) (Original Post) Catherine Vincent Sep 2012 OP
Still waiting for his apology bluestateguy Sep 2012 #1
Tom Delay, king of shams, father of fraud. Thinkingabout Sep 2012 #2
His prayers are working! twins.fan Sep 2012 #3
R#1 & K for, you beat me to it. I was going to post, "Tom DELAY is praying for ME!1" UTUSN Sep 2012 #4

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
2. Tom Delay, king of shams, father of fraud.
Sat Sep 22, 2012, 04:50 PM
Sep 2012

He abused the priviledge of Homeland Security to hunt down Texas Democrat members who had left the state to avoid the gerrymander to mostly elect himself. Now he can corrupt the prison system

UTUSN

(70,712 posts)
4. R#1 & K for, you beat me to it. I was going to post, "Tom DELAY is praying for ME!1"
Sat Sep 22, 2012, 05:59 PM
Sep 2012

Since I consider myself his enemy, despising him personally and his politics. But other ironies: Poor him, he's living off of SOCIAL SECURITY, oh, and also his $60,000 pension, oh and speaking engagements. But even richer, his mouthpiece compares him to the "kind-hearted" Jean VALJEAN!1

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