Re: Texan Tom DeLay is So Corrupt that it's Laughable

Epimethius · Epimethius

"In Your Dreams" <anon5c6c@nyx.net> wrote in message
news:1295c003.0306191524.21586002@posting.google.c om...
> Texan Tom DeLay is So Corrupt that it's Laughable.
> From s Washington Post editorial, 6/19/03:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2003Jun18.html
>
> Not in Kansas Anymore
>
> Thursday, June 19, 2003; Page A26
>
> "IT NEVER CEASES to amaze me that people are so cynical they want to
> tie money to issues, money to bills, money to amendments," the House
> majority leader, Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), said the other day.
>
> Would this be the same Mr. DeLay who is renowned for keeping a ledger
> in his office tracking "friendly" and "unfriendly" political action
> committees -- as measured by their contributions to the GOP?
>
> The same Mr. DeLay who was chastised by the House ethics committee for
> threatening a Washington trade association with retaliation after it
> hired a Democrat?
>
> One way to tamp down the cynicism that upsets him would be for Mr.
> DeLay to call on the Justice Department to investigate the matter that
> prompted his lament.
>
> It involves a Kansas-based firm, Westar Energy Inc., whose executives
> somehow got the notion that it would cost them $56,500 to "get a seat
> at the table" to have a provision they were seeking inserted into the
> energy bill.
>
> When one executive noted, "DeLay is from TX. What is our connection?"
> another Westar official set him straight: The majority leader's
> "agreement is necessary before the House Conferees can push the
> language we have in place in the House bill."
>
> That month the company gave $25,000 in "soft money" to a committee
> that has close connections to Mr. DeLay.
>
> Mr. DeLay and the other lawmakers involved sputter at any suggestion
> of a quid pro quo between Westar contributions and their support for
> the Westar amendment.
>
> But the company's documents suggest that it saw a connection quite
> clearly.
>
> This was no general, good-corporate-citizen request for political
> involvement, but rather an urgent call for checks -- "return these
> checks and we'll deliver them tomorrow," one memo said.
>
> Another document outlines the company's "total estimated needs" --
> that is, the amount of campaign donations required -- for "federal
> energy legislation and our effort to include grandfather clause."
>
> Perhaps these cynical Kansans misconstrued the way Washington works.
>
> There's a rather simple way to resolve this.
>
> The Justice Department, which already is investigating unrelated fraud
> at Westar, could question the executives to see where they got the
> idea that they could get what they wanted if they produced enough
> campaign checks.
>
> It could interview the lawmakers and their staffs and obtain the
> relevant correspondence, phone logs and e-mails.
>
> Attorney General John D. Ashcroft ought to get such a probe going --
> and then he should consider promptly recusing himself from the matter,
> not so much because he received some contributions from Westar
> executives as because of the political stakes involved.
> __________________________________________________ ________________
>
> ... And, if you'll pardon my French, I will feel better if I say that
> Tom DeLay is a bullshit fuckface asshole lying shit-for-brains crotch
> monkey. Sorry, Grandma. ...

Epimethius	[1] Posted by Epimethius 06-19-2003, 11:40 PM
Posts: n/a	Quote "In Your Dreams" <anon5c6c@nyx.net> wrote in message news:1295c003.0306191524.21586002@posting.google.c om... > Texan Tom DeLay is So Corrupt that it's Laughable. > From s Washington Post editorial, 6/19/03: > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2003Jun18.html > > Not in Kansas Anymore > > Thursday, June 19, 2003; Page A26 > > "IT NEVER CEASES to amaze me that people are so cynical they want to > tie money to issues, money to bills, money to amendments," the House > majority leader, Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), said the other day. > > Would this be the same Mr. DeLay who is renowned for keeping a ledger > in his office tracking "friendly" and "unfriendly" political action > committees -- as measured by their contributions to the GOP? > > The same Mr. DeLay who was chastised by the House ethics committee for > threatening a Washington trade association with retaliation after it > hired a Democrat? > > One way to tamp down the cynicism that upsets him would be for Mr. > DeLay to call on the Justice Department to investigate the matter that > prompted his lament. > > It involves a Kansas-based firm, Westar Energy Inc., whose executives > somehow got the notion that it would cost them $56,500 to "get a seat > at the table" to have a provision they were seeking inserted into the > energy bill. > > When one executive noted, "DeLay is from TX. What is our connection?" > another Westar official set him straight: The majority leader's > "agreement is necessary before the House Conferees can push the > language we have in place in the House bill." > > That month the company gave $25,000 in "soft money" to a committee > that has close connections to Mr. DeLay. > > Mr. DeLay and the other lawmakers involved sputter at any suggestion > of a quid pro quo between Westar contributions and their support for > the Westar amendment. > > But the company's documents suggest that it saw a connection quite > clearly. > > This was no general, good-corporate-citizen request for political > involvement, but rather an urgent call for checks -- "return these > checks and we'll deliver them tomorrow," one memo said. > > Another document outlines the company's "total estimated needs" -- > that is, the amount of campaign donations required -- for "federal > energy legislation and our effort to include grandfather clause." > > Perhaps these cynical Kansans misconstrued the way Washington works. > > There's a rather simple way to resolve this. > > The Justice Department, which already is investigating unrelated fraud > at Westar, could question the executives to see where they got the > idea that they could get what they wanted if they produced enough > campaign checks. > > It could interview the lawmakers and their staffs and obtain the > relevant correspondence, phone logs and e-mails. > > Attorney General John D. Ashcroft ought to get such a probe going -- > and then he should consider promptly recusing himself from the matter, > not so much because he received some contributions from Westar > executives as because of the political stakes involved. > __________________________________________________ ________________ > > ... And, if you'll pardon my French, I will feel better if I say that > Tom DeLay is a bullshit fuckface asshole lying shit-for-brains crotch > monkey. Sorry, Grandma. ...
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