Congressman DeLay Could Lose To Lampson in Texas

[Judi Lynn]

January 18, 2006
Congressman DeLay Could Lose To Lampson in Texas

(Angus Reid Global Scan) – Former United States congressman Nick Lampson could return to the House of Representatives this year, according to a poll by Rice University and the University of Houston published in the Houston Chronicle. 30 per cent of respondents in Texas’s 22nd Congressional District would support the Democrat.

Incumbent congressman Tom DeLay of the Republican Party is second with 22 per cent, followed by former congressman Steve Stockman—a Republican who is running as an independent—with 11 per cent.
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http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/10587

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Mario Díaz-Balart accepts money from Tom DeLay’s ARMPAC

BY Jean Guy Allard

CUBAN-American Congressman Mario Díaz-Balart has accepted $10,000 from the ARMPAC (Americans for a Republican Majority Political Action Committee) fund belonging to Tom DeLay, former Republican leader of the House, currently implicated in a huge corruption scandal.

The information has been disclosed on the internet by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

The Democratic website also notes that the Democracy Believers Political Action Committee handled by the Díaz-Balart brothers themselves, has contributed $5,000 to the legal fund of the corrupt congressman, who recently resigned his post due to charges of corruption, money laundering and illegal electoral funding.

Representative DeLay, aged 58, a Republican for the state of Texas, has confirmed his definitive resignation from the post of leader of his party in Congress. He temporarily withdrew from the post last September after being charged in Texas with having financed his campaign with illegal funds and money laundering.

It is from one of those dubious funding sources, ARMPAC, that Mario Díaz-Balart has accepted a juicy contribution.
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http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/enero/lun16/04balart.html



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[w8liftinglady]

1. YES! and Lampson is a nice guy,to boot

[Irreverend IX]

2. The smart thing for the Repubs to do...

Would be to "persuade" Delay not to run again and put up some shiny new guy who promises a departure from politics as usual. But such action would go against every fiber of their good-old-boy, go along to get along ethos. That mentality is the same reason they ran Dole in '96, and it may be their greatest weakness.