Texas GOP agrees to stop some campaign practices ("deferred prosecution")

[Rose Siding]

Party to make changes in way it spends corporate money in return for deferred prosecution.

The Republican Party of Texas avoided prosecution Thursday by agreeing to stop using corporate money in several ways being investigated by Travis County Attorney David Escamilla.

Escamilla's investigation, which is similar to allegations being pursued by Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle against U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay and the Texas Association of Business, is put on hold through March 31, 2007. In return, the Republican Party agrees to stop using corporate money the way it did during the 2002 election. The party's administrative expenses spiked five-fold to about $5.6 million that year.
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Under the agreement, called deferred prosecution, the Republican Party of Texas agreed not to use corporate money for so-called issue ads that mention a state candidate; to follow federal campaign finance restrictions against using corporate money in the final 60 days of an election to aid a federal candidate; to file the party's campaign finance reports electronically; and to specifically describe every transaction on its reports.

They promise

[dogfacedboy]

1. The cockroaches will find a way around it. n/t

[rateyes]

2. That is BULLSHIT.....

Number 1---How we gonna know they are going to keep their promise?
Number 2---Justice delayed is justice denied.
Number 3---Hey, we know you murdered someone, but if you promise not to do it again, then we won't prosecute.

They weren't gonna do any of that again, anyway, so long as they were being looked at under a microscope. IMHO, the prosecutor didn't accomplish a damned thing.

[Gman]

7. Don't murder anyone before March 31, 2007

It's ok after that.

[Solly Mack]

3. Ok. Let me get this straight - all the Texas GOP had to do to avoid

a conviction - which would have permanently sullied their official record - was to promise not to violate election/campaign laws (again)?

"Escamilla's investigation,..., is put on hold through March 31, 2007."

and the investigation is put on hold through March of 2007, at which time what?

The investigation is reopened?

"The GOP also agreed not to violate the state election code and to seek election-law training for its executive director and finance officials. "

Is that anything like the WH's Ethics class?

[rateyes]

4. Makes a helluva lot of sense...

doesn't it? (sarcasm)---Hold off until after the 2006 elections, and we'll promise to be good next time. Pure, unadulterated, 100% B.S.

[Solly Mack]

5. The mind teeters

it really does

[jobycom]

6. Yeah, it would have been MUCH better to convict the GOP of a misdemeanor

and fine them $4000. That would have really showed them.

Escamilla did a good job. Why all this crap? I swear, any time a Democrat accomplishes something but refuses to shoot every single Republican in the nation he's blasted here at DU.

[Solly Mack]

8. Get a grip. Do you even know what I'm talking about ? Fuck no

But yet you decide to run your mouth and jump on people when you don't even have a fucking clue in your head what they are talking about.

Get a grip and try to maintain it.

The "mind teeters" refers to:

I was talking about the GOP taking "election code" classes being like the WH taking ethic classes. It won't do them either any good - they're cheats and liars.

So instead of being so laughably defensive about what you perceive as a slight to a Democrat - why don't you step back, and take a mother fucking breath....got it? Good!


The part about after the elections (until 2007) didn't even enter my mind other than what I asked :will the investigation then resume.


Your divisive game of there are "good" Democrats and "bad" Democrats got old a long time ago. No one has to agree with you or your bullying tactics to be a Democrat, and you do NOT get to decide who is and isn't a Democrat.



So spare me your outrage - Cause I will NOT take it. You can try and bully others with that crap - but you will NOT get that chance with me.

But since you decided to attack my other comment, yet in your little spat of anger replied to the wrong post:

I asked if the investigation would resume. That's a fair question - though you seem to think fair questions are attacks. Odd kind of logic that.

And you are just so right - Republicans are just so honest and ethical that a mere promise is ever so much better than a conviction that stays on the record. Cause every good Democrat knows Republicans never break promises and they never lie. Which must make you, with all your misplaced (self) righteous indignation, the best little Democrat around. So you keep on defending the honesty of Republicans! And us "bad" Democrats will continue to call the Republicans the liars and cheats that they are...