WOAH! DeLay's wife and daughter paid $500,000 by his OWN P.A.C.-(NYT)

[goodboy]

HOLY SHIT! He's TOAST!


Political Groups Paid Two Relatives of House Leader
By PHILIP SHENON

Published: April 6, 2005

WASHINGTON, April 5 - The wife and daughter of Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, have been paid more than $500,000 since 2001 by Mr. DeLay's political action and campaign committees, according to a detailed review of disclosure statements filed with the Federal Election Commission and separate fund-raising records in Mr. DeLay's home state, Texas.

Most of the payments to his wife, Christine A. DeLay, and his only child, Dani DeLay Ferro, were described in the disclosure forms as "fund-raising fees," "campaign management" or "payroll," with no additional details about how they earned the money. The payments appear to reflect what Mr. DeLay's aides say is the central role played by the majority leader's wife and daughter in his political career.
Mr. DeLay's national political action committee, Americans for a Republican Majority, or Armpac, said in a statement on Tuesday that the two women had provided valuable services to the committee in exchange for the payments: "Mrs. DeLay provides big picture, long-term strategic guidance and helps with personnel decisions. Ms. Ferro is a skilled and experienced professional event planner who assists Armpac in arranging and organizing individual events." (BULLSHIT!)
more: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/06/politics/06delay.html?ex=1270440000&en=7e2ad081118890cd&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt

[Teaser]

1. To paraphrase William Gibson

Delay is fucked, burnt, and this is over.

[goodboy]

3. proper fucked. (nt)

[FreedomAngel82]

21. I think he was pretty much gone

when even Bill Frist wasn't defending him anymore. They're letting him toast and not lifting a finger.

[goodboy]

28. Hey FA82, you think the media was given a green light by rove to go ahead

with the Delay shit? Maybe there's another terror alert coming. They're gonna go something, perhaps invade Venezuela?

[flygal]

57. I think they had him get behind the Schiavo thing

so they could martyr him that he went down b/c of standing behind right to life - ethics who? All we'll hear are sound bites from him defending TS and flaming activist judges - whatever the hell those are :shrug:

[Bluebear]

58. kick

[rocktivity]

78. RoachBoy, Jeb and Dubya decided to act as Terri's personal Holy Trinity

Saving her would give DeLay absolution for his other ethical sins, help Georgie make his first big payment to the GOP's religious extremist leaders, and set Jeb off on a 2008 presidency. Unfortunately, someone taped that speech that RoachBoy made about God sending Terri to the GOP. But that wouldn't mattered too much if the Schiavo deal hadn't gone south.

RoachBoy responded by making threatening remarks about judges, warning his fellow Repubs that they would not get election funding if they didn't support him, and planning to appear at a conference on "The Judicial War On Faith." Dick Cheney responded by saying at a press conference that RoachBoy's judge remarks were not "appropriate"--and suddenly RoachBoy is up to his tentacles in news stories about additional ethical irregularites.

True to form, he tries to blame all his sudden bad press on "the liberal media," as if that could get him back into the RW's good graces. I myself blame it on RoachBoy's inability to realize that he's been told to jump or get pushed!

:headbang:
rocknation

[Teaser]

12. One regret about this...

it looks like Delay's about to get tossed over now. I'd much rather him hang in there and die a death of a thousand cuts up until election day 2006.

[Me.]

18. Better Now

while the iron's hot and he doesn't have any time to weasel out of it. Watching his suffer would be delicious, but if he goes the whole house of cards may start to topple. The sooner the better.

[FreedomAngel82]

36. Do you think he'll go down a lone?

These guys seem to take people down with them. I wonder if he'll go down alone?

[Me.]

46. I Tend To Think So Too

about him taking people down with him. Everyone knows who has been kissing his butt, and I should think they'll be tarred with the same brush. It will look especially bad for pug Texans in Congress, Perry, possibly Hastert and Frist.

[goodboy]

20. I know what you mean, but he's hated in his district too, so maybe they'll

wise up, and elect a dem.

[spanone]

65. Don't count on it. The thugs said today that they support him and they

own the agenda. This bastard should be in jail instead he's in one of our govt's higher positions. Makes Nixon look like a boy scout.

[Peter Frank]

2. I'm sure glad we have such great...

...representatives of moral values in D.C.

[goodboy]

5. at least you're not surprised. (nt)

[donheld]

4. I don't think politicians get any lower than

Tom Delay.

[goodboy]

7. nope...lower than rotting, stinking pondscum. (nt)

[lonestarnot]

6. This ought to do it!

:toast:

[goodboy]

9. It should...but will it? These pukes protect each other. (tn)

[lonestarnot]

19. Many prior things should have also done it, but he's still hang'n....

don't know... chimpster down to 45% approval on Gallup ... we shall see.

[goodboy]

22. Delay might not be the only one to go down...Bob Ney went on one of those

trips with him...Santorum's got that little tax-payer funded school thing...there's corruption everywhere, maybe this will help to shine a spotlight on these dirty cockroaches.

[lonestarnot]

24. Cockroaches can live through a nuclear attack! n/t

[goodboy]

25. point taken...he'll live, but his political life will be over very soon,

remember, you heard it here first.

[lonestarnot]

27. I so hope you are right! I am so sick of that MFr!

[goodboy]

29. then write to your representatives and tell them if they want your vote

they'll throw him out like the garbage he is.


Hell...write them and tell them you'll throw them out too!

[lonestarnot]

30. Believe me I have and continue to write every day!

[goodboy]

31. good work, lonestar!...your name reminds me of spaceballs!

LONESTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRR,


I see your schwartz is as big as mine.

[lonestarnot]

33. Peace goodboy! What's a spaceball....I could be a spaceball! n/t

[goodboy]

37. one of Mel Brooks' movies...ironically, the spaceballs remind me a lot

of the pukes party..only more dangerous...

[lonestarnot]

39. OMG then I definitely should not be associated with a spaceball! LOL n/t

[oxbow]

48. But who will launch an investigation into this

the regressives control the judiciary committee. I think he'll be the fall guy by himslef and everyone will run as far away as they can from him.

[goodboy]

49. just like watergate, it'll get so big they can't ignore it..that's my hope

[FreedomAngel82]

38. Another thing to remember

is they also leave each other dangling in the wind when one of them gets in trouble. Nobody helps each other out. Each one for their own. Some of them even go down with someone with them. I wonder who DeLay will bring down with him.

[goodboy]

40. Probably Bob Ney, which would make me so happy, cuz I'm an Ohioan..

[lonestarnot]

41. Wooohhooo you are right! Maybe we'll get three for the price of 1 n/t

[Mr_Spock]

8. WHAT!!!!!! If true this is one of the worst nepotism cases I've ever heard

This is not right - how can he survive all these allegations of sleaze?

[goodboy]

10. Dammit Spock, why do you have to be so logical!

[w13rd0]

13. Because...

...it's just liberals and soddomites "after him", dotcha know...

He could have paid them two million, and on the checks it could have been writted "for sex", and he's STILL get away with it.

[Pachamama]

11. Aahh! Those "Administrative" fees....

....he is so busted....this is just disgusting....I hope that people start to wake up and that this along with all the other unethical things this scumbag has done....

If there is ever going to be true "campaign" and political reform, they need to make payments like this completely and absolutely illegal. If his daughter wants to do "event planning", let her go do it elsewhere or "donate" her time to Daddy....

[goodboy]

"Dad, how many gay escorts do you think we need"..."Santorum's coming

call Gannon, tell him to bring 10...oh, and tell him not to forget the rubber sheets and the gerbils"

[BuyingThyme]

14. I wonder if he's allowed to pay his

pets.

[goodboy]

17. Oh, and don't forget the guy who holds his pen...(nt)

[The_Casual_Observer]

15. This is the end...My only friend , the end.....

Good bye Tommy , good bye
Tom Tom Tommy don't cry.

[Up2Late]

16. Oh, Like NONE of YOU have ever done THAT!, Ah, right?

O.K. So what, forget that...forget I ever said that...:blush: :hide:

[usregimechange]

23. kick

[goodboy]

26. thanks, USRC.

[sandnsea]

32. Yet another Delay scam

From page 2, no wonder his family doesn't speak to him.

"The Republicans, under the direction of Delay, came up with the idea for the awards five years ago as a means of helping to raise funds for the congressional campaign efforts for their party..

...A Republican congressional spokesman said Delay stopped direct involvement in the program two years ago, but the majority leader was the guest speaker this year at the awards ceremony luncheon, giving a speech that included proposals well-tailored to the doctors' interests.

"We need to reform our legal system so that predatory personal injury lawyers can't clog our courts and drive doctors out of business with abusive lawsuits," he said. "Today in America, a doctor in a small town is trying to determine how he can continue his practice after learning of his new higher malpractice premiums."

[goodboy]

35. *shakes head*...there are no words, except maybe:

HA HA (nelson style)

[jbm]

44. Bush did this too...

a few days before last years elections I received a phone call saying that my little business had been chosen as 'business of the year' and I was invited to come to D.C. and have lunch with Bush. I would receive my award at a reception following the luncheon. All I had to do was donate $500.00 (and pay all my own travel expenses of course). Right after I told them some version of "hell no", I got a call from my brother who also owns a small business in town. He said, "you'll never guess the phone call i just got..." Apparently all it takes to be 'business of the year' these days is a $500.00 donation to the repubs!

[sandnsea]

54. Do you remember the name?

Where are you? I'd love to get to the bottom of that. This guy is unbelievable.

[usregimechange]

34. kick

[Renew Deal]

42. Is this actually illegal.

It's certainly unethical, but is it illegal?

[goodboy]

43. Let's consult the DU campaign finance law experts. HELLO?!?! is it legal?

[bpilgrim]

45. It's HARD WORK damn't... wants some WOOD?

http://images.globalfreepress.com

peace

[Stephanie]

51. LOL!

Schadenfreude is GOOD - burn MF burn

[w4rma]

47. Stick a fork in DeLay. He's toast.

It's all over for him except for the fat lady's song.

[Stephanie]

52. they've been openly speculating on NPR on whether or not he's toast

so that tells me - he's TOAST

[Stirk]

50. Delay going down is only the beginning. Now we need to have a

serious look at the Republicans who changed Congressional ethics rules specifically to protect this cockroach.

[BikeWriter]

53. If this brings him down we'll have to party! :-)

[oasis]

55. Delay's a dirty scoundrel and a hypocrite. What a rotten example

of a public figure. He's turned his family into despicable crooks.

[SmileyBoy]

56. Oh man, he is fucking DONE!!!

If anything is worthy of a criminal investigation, this is IT!!!

[goodboy]

59. kick

[morgan2]

60. thats not exactly an exorbinant salary

Averaged out they're each making under 100k a year.

[rucky]

61. I'm not sure if that's even a crime anymore. n/t

[LeftHander]

62. Okay...would a Christian fundie give "little woman"

that much power?

I doubt it...so she got paid half a mill to host cocktail parties...

[goodboy]

63. Reliant funded his daughters BABY SHOWER!!!! from rawstory:

Abramoff keeps popping up in these things...

A Texas energy company being investigated with regards to improper fundraising by those connected with House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) held a baby shower for DeLay's daughter Danielle Ferro in May 2002—and the event was attended by lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who paid for some of the congressman’s overseas travel, RAW STORY has found.

The shower, reported in the Washington, D.C. newspaper Roll Call Jun. 10, 2002 (article posted here), was held at the Washington offices of Reliant Energy Inc., a Texas-based power company that has given heavily to DeLay and his political action committees.

Donations collected from Reliant by a DeLay-linked political action committee are now the subject of a Texas state probe. DeLay’s daughter Danielle helped manage that committee, Texans for a Republican Majority, and her records have been subpoenaed by an Austin grand jury.

. . .

Among the shower's guests was Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist found to have paid for at least two DeLay trips that were fronted through a conservative nonprofit. The trips, taken in violated of House rules, ran a tab of more than $130,000.

www.rawstory.com

[Robbien]

69. Abramoff all over the place

Delay gets a very expensive all expense paid trip to go to Russia to see Abramoff seven years ago

Abramoff comes to the US and lobbys for Relient.

Abramoff's Relient funnels money in Delay's PAC who gives money to Delay's wife and Delay's daughter.

Delay rules over conference committee which decides bills in favor of energy companies.

Abramoff is involved in the whole Indian Casino fraud deal.

Abramoff's client hires Delay's daughter

Abramoff & Delay attend a baby shower for Delay's daughter, the shower paid for by Abramoff's client.

But Delay says he barely knows Abramoff.

[goodboy]

80. yeah, barely...like bush didn't know who chalabi was, right?

[lebkuchen]

64. Now I understand why Senators/Reps cling for dear life to these jobs

The money they receive under the table is astronomical.

[goodboy]

66. because they know they're looking at serious jail time...(nt)

[lebkuchen]

70. and Kenny Boy has enjoyed how many ski seasons

since destroying Enron's pension funds, and the company itself?

[LynneSin]

67. If Republicans are smart, they'll ask Tom to "Retire"

Pretty much what they did with Gingrich. And believe me, Gingrich did NOT faid away after his retirement, but it got all the crap off his back.

[goodboy]

68. I just hope that Bob Ney goes down with him...Ney went on at least one

of those trips with him.

[Patiod]

71. I don't want him to go! I love Tom DeLay!

He's a poster boy for Repig bad behavior. Even Faux news dumbasses are embarrassed by him. I want him around breaking the law, getting his ugly face in the news until at least the '06 election!!!!!

[rocktivity]

72. Smoke, meet gun.

Game over, Tommy boy. There's NO way you can explain taking money from your own PAC. Even the Smear Boat Liars For Bush were smarter than that. Happy trails, moran--and don't be surprised if Rove or Cheney is behind the leak!

:headbang:
rocknation

[goodboy]

74. didn't they get rid of the chairman of the ethics committee, and replace

him with someone who donated to the same PAC's that are in question in this investigation? I also seem to remember 3 other members of the ethics committee being replaced by fervent supporters/donors of Delay.

[Toucano]

75. Love it!

:applause:

[Cocoa]

73. are we going to see Delay frog-marched? nt

[goodboy]

76. I hope so, but they'll probably raise the terror alert, do something to

distract from this...stay vigilant.

[mzmolly]

77. Buh Bye Tommy.

*mwah* sure gonna miss ya! :evilgrin:

[Callboy]

79. the phat lady is resting her vocals after the opera

[Donailin]

81. so what's gonna happen to him now that he is exposed?

nothing. that's my prediction. no way would the unraveling begin now with Delay, that's too easy. Besides, I've resigned myself to nothing happening, I've trained my mind for years now to accept the impossible.

If something happens, I swear to God I don't know what I'm gonna do.