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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
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)Yep.
Stiiilll waiting.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)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
twins.fan
(310 posts)UTUSN
(70,712 posts)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