Craddick ordered cash to go to Democrats, lawyer says

[sonias]

AAS 3/19/08

Craddick ordered cash to go to Democrats, lawyer says
Lawyer had denied that Midland Republican specified who was to get donations before primaries.

A lawyer for Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick reversed himself Tuesday, saying the Midland Republican specified that he wanted his $250,000 donation to a political committee to go to several House Democrats who supported him.

When Travis County prosecutors began investigating the donations last month, Austin lawyer Roy Minton denied that Craddick had directed how the donation to the committee, Texas Jobs & Opportunity Build a Secure Future, should be spent.

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Minton said that his remarks last month were his mistake and that he had turned Christi Craddick's letter over to prosecutors as part of a package of records that had been subpoenaed.

Texans for Public Justice, a group that advocates campaign spending limits, says Craddick is illegally trying to boost his bid for re-election as speaker next year.

Minton is getting too old to keep all the lies he has to keep saying straight.

Sonia

[GOPisEvil]

1. Thanks for confirming what we all knew, Minton.

It figures. Republicans lie and obfuscate, but when the documents get ready to be seen by a court, suddenly they "misspeak". Cripes, Craddick has GOT to go.