Delay dissed Baylor U/ A&M and says everyone knew his kid at the local bar

[rainbow4321]

1992:

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3944/is_200206/ai_n9134093


Continued DeLay, "You can do something about Texas universities. You call your state representative, your state senator and say, 'I want that to change. I don't like what I see. I want it changed. And I want things changed. And I want you to do something about it.' They can. Texas A&M is a state university. The University of Texas is a state university. It's all run by the Coordinating Board, or whatever they call it, and they can change things. They can throw the P.C. out and bring God in ..... As far as the immediate - I mean, that will take time, to change the university - but the immediate is, don't send your kids to Baylor. And don't send your kids to A&M. There are still some Christian schools out there - good, solid schools. Now, they may be little, they may not be as prestigious as Stanford, but your kids will get a good, solid, godly education."

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DeLay's daughter, Danielle Ferro, who graduated from Texas A&M in 1995, may not have been as traumatized by the party atmosphere at the school as the congressman let on. In September of 2000, Roll Call newspaper in Washington reported that when DeLay flew 30 lobbyists to a plush Las Vegas hotel for a weekend of partying, Ferro, who was then managing DeLay's reelection campaign, hosted a late-night get-together in one room that had its own hot tub. Ferro later told a friend that one of the lobbyists had poured champagne on her while she was in the hot tub.

On at least one occasion DeLay joked about his daughter's active social life while at A&M. The College Station Eagle reported that in 1995 DeLay delivered the commencement address at A&M and joked with the graduates about how popular his daughter was at a local bar.

To crowd laughter, DeLay reported that Ferro took him to the Dixie Chicken, a popular campus watering hole, and remarked, "I was a little surprised that Danni knew everybody there and everybody there knew her and called her by her first name." Days after the story hit the Texas newspapers, The Washington Post ran a separate item about DeLay's comments insisting that "only Christianity" provides an appropriate moral and ethical worldview.

[babylonsister]

1. Oh, you must mean that moral and ethical

view that he obviously passed on to his daughter! :eyes:
I could care less what she does, but I want the bugman to stop preaching as if he was better than us mere mortals. His morals are reprehensible!

[rainbow4321]

2. Something about him and tape recorders...you think he would learn.

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At first, DeLay spokesman Jonathan Gralle attacked the person who "underhandedly brought a tape recorder into First Baptist Church looking for trouble"

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Once again the blame is shifted elsewhere. Didn't he recently get burnt by a tape recorded speech?

One would think his comments about Baylor and A & M would have been enough for Texans neocons to give him the boot. They don't take kindly to people bad mouthing these 2 universities.






edited: typo

[rodeodance]

3. in my farest dreams I could not imagine my Rep. talking like this!

[LdyGuique]

4. Looks like the slosh doesn't fall far from the lush

[leesa]

5. Is anyone actually stupid enough to believe that DeLay gives a rat's ass

about God, or morality, or ethics, or jeezus?? Amazing!

[babylonsister]

6. delay is the BugMan! He's evil! It would be so

refreshing to know he got wisked out of our lives legitimately because of his evilness; I'm curious about the response in the next couple of days. especially from his cohorts.