Edwin A. Buckham,
former chief of staff to Tommy Delay,
and notable K-Street pipeline for slop
which feeds the beltway republican hogs,
is an evangelical minister.
Somehow this doesn't surprise me;
both Delay and Buckham are overt
Blind Feith trinitarian believers.
They worship:
The Jackson,
The Harrison
and
The Benjamin Franklin
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Washington Post - Wednesday, June 7, 2006
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Retirement Account of DeLay's Wife Traced
With Disclosure, Family's Known Benefits
From Ties With Lobbyist Exceed $490,000
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By R. Jeffrey Smith
<http://tinyurl.com/qbvbf>
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A registered lobbyist opened a retirement account in the
late 1990s for the wife of then-House Whip Tom DeLay
(R-Tex.) and contributed thousands of dollars to it while
also paying her a salary to work for him from her home in
Texas, according to sources, documents and DeLay's attorney,
Richard Cullen.
The account represents a small portion of the income that
DeLay's family received from entities at least partly
controlled by lobbyist Edwin A. Buckham. But the disclosure
of its origin adds to what was previously known about the
benefits DeLay's family received from its association with
Buckham, and it brings the total over the past seven years
to about half a million dollars.
Buckham was DeLay's chief of staff before he became a
lobbyist at the end of 1998, shortly before the account was
opened and the flow of funds began. He has come under
scrutiny from federal investigators because his lobbying
firm received hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue
from clients of indicted Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
[. . .]
From 1998 until recently, Buckham, an evangelical minister,
met regularly with DeLay, occasionally attended staff
meetings in his office, made scheduling recommendations or
decisions for the office, and served as DeLay's chief
political and spiritual adviser, even though he was not
formally employed by him. At the time, Buckham's clients
included a host of companies with regulatory and legislative
business before Congress, and whose interests DeLay
supported.
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