TRMPAC trial ends with focus on DeLay and Craddick, hmmmm

[ChicanoPwr]

TRMPAC trial ends with focus on DeLay, Craddick
Though they aren't defendants, their roles in GOP funding are key
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3069266

AUSTIN - A civil lawsuit over Republican spending of corporate cash to influence 2002 Texas House elections ended Friday with lawyers for both sides arguing over whether the trial had anything to do with U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay or Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick.

The trial was simple at its core, with the Democrats trying to prove that Texans for a Republican Majority, or TRMPAC, violated state election law by raising and spending almost $600,000 in corporate cash illegally to affect the outcome of 23 House elections in 2002.

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Winning a Republican majority in the House was crucial to electing Craddick as speaker because the members choose their leader. And it was pivotal to DeLay's efforts to push a congressional redistricting plan through the Legislature to give Republicans a majority in Texas' delegation.

But Republican lawyer Terry Scarborough went out of his way in his closing arguments to distance DeLay and Craddick from the proceedings.
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So why would the lawyer want to distant Craddick?

[NoPasaran]

1. Craddick is just as dirty as DeLay

Here's hoping that he gets to share a cell with Bug Boy.