DELAY: "I'm like a cemetery — I'll take anything!"

[kpete]

March 5, 2006, 5:29PM
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"I'm like a cemetery — I'll take anything!"

That was the exhortation from U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, Sugar Land Republican and certified auctioneer, as he squeezed $16,600 from the crowd during a live auction at a Harris County Republican Party dinner last week.

DeLay knew the name of just about every bidder and used rapid-fire, joke-laced persistence to prompt high offers from the crowd. The hubbub even spurred Houston bootmaker Rocky Carroll to chip in five more pairs of handmade boots than he originally had pledged to the auction.

There is no question that DeLay is an able auctioneer, but the bids aren't all in on whether he has sold himself well enough across the 22nd Congressional District to walk off a winner in Tuesday's Republican primary.

"I feel very good," DeLay said at a Galveston County GOP dinner in League City on Thursday. "We've done all we needed to do. We ran a very good, positive campaign."

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3701717.html

[babylonsister]

1. Positive my butt! You should see the nasty ads plastered all over

the tube in Houston, compliments of Bob Perry, known for his swiftboating tactics in 04.
Come on, Ronnie Earle!

[acmejack]

2. Nothing from "Texans for Lawsuit for Lawsuit Reform"?

They're throwing lots of money around, them and HillCoPAC. Oh, and as you said Bob "Pockets" Perry.

[raysr]

3. Too bad

he isn't in the cemetary. These fucking repukes don't care how they win as long as they do. If it's with Diebold so be it.

[rodeodance]

5. maybe maybe maybe.........

[BringEmOn]

4. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees...

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

Matthew 23:27

[PegDAC]

6. Doesn't he mean

"I'm like a landfill"?

[UTUSN]

7. Tom, be like a cemetery and ------------DROP DEAD!!!!!!!! n/t

[WiseButAngrySara]

9. He needs to exterminate himself! ....n/t

[lovuian]

8. Tom is in big trouble down in Sugarland there are very few

signs up for him down there... Lots of Campbell signs out shine him

Seems the Republicans have their limitations on how much you can steal!!!!!!!

[Rocknrule]

10. Is that what his eHarmony.com ad read?

:evilgrin: