Be still my heart !
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DeLay turns himself in
HOUSTON (AP) — U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay on Thursday turned himself in at the
Harris County sheriff's bonding office, where he was photographed,
fingerprinted and released on bond on state conspiracy and money
laundering charges.
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| User: "Steven Douglas" |
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20 Oct 2005 11:11:17 PM |
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Marvin The Paranoid Android wrote:
Be still my heart !
What percentage of your own personal happiness would you say you base
on the misfortune of others?
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| User: "Marvin The Paranoid Android" |
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21 Oct 2005 02:11:09 AM |
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Steven Douglas wrote:
Marvin The Paranoid Android wrote:
Be still my heart !
What percentage of your own personal happiness would you say you base
on the misfortune of others?
None.
I do not believe Delay is experiencing any misfortune. Did you see his
mugshot? Compared to Nick Nolte's, he could use it for his next election
campaign.
BTW, good to see you posting again.
Cheers!
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| User: "Steven Douglas" |
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22 Oct 2005 01:10:38 AM |
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Marvin The Paranoid Android wrote:
Steven Douglas wrote:
Marvin The Paranoid Android wrote:
Be still my heart !
What percentage of your own personal happiness would you say you base
on the misfortune of others?
None.
I do not believe Delay is experiencing any misfortune. Did you see his
mugshot? Compared to Nick Nolte's, he could use it for his next election
campaign.
It does look like a campaign poster, doesn't it? It was his misfortune
to lose his leadership position in the House of Representatives, due to
a Republican rule that requires a leader to step down if indicted
(Democrats don't have such a rule). And it might be his misfortune to
be indicted by a prosecutor whose first indictment was a mistake, which
caused the prosecutor to rush out and find another grand jury in hopes
of indicting DeLay on another charge -- because the first indictment is
based on law that did not exist during the 2002 election. So the
prosecutor tried a second grand jury, and was rebuffed. Then he found a
brand new grand jury on their first day on the job, and pressed them to
indict DeLay on the new charges -- though it remains to be seen if
those charges will hold up in court.
And then there's this:
From National Review Online
[quoting] DeLay Judge Should Recuse Himself
Why? Because that's what he did when Ronnie Earle went after Sen. Kay
Bailey Hutchison. Judge Bob Perkins would have heard the case, but he
removed himself because he had donated $300 to her Democratic opponent,
the Houston Chronicle reports today.
The Chronicle also reports that Perkins, the judge who issued the
arrest warrant for DeLay, donated $100 in 2002 to the Texas Partnership
PAC run by a leading Texas Democrat. This is before he gave money to
John Kerry and MoveOn.org in 2004.
Perkins should have recused himself in the cases of DeLay co-defendants
John Colyandro and Jim Ellis, but as the Chronicle reports, he did not:
"Perkins already has ruled against Colyandro and Ellis on motions to
dismiss the case because the election law is vague and a contention
that money laundering does not apply in this case. Those rulings are on
appeal."
The case centers around the actions of DeLay's Texans for a Republican
Majority PAC (TRMPAC) during the state elections of 2002. The fact that
the judge donated to the Texas Partnership PAC, whose goals were in
opposition to TRMPAC's, and did not recuse himself already is
outrageous. [end quoted material]
http://media.nationalreview.com/080246.asp
Here is a link to the Houston Chronicle article cited in the previous
article:
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/politics/3404766
And this link shows a letter from DeLay's attorney to the prosecutor:
http://images.chron.com/content/news/photos/05/10/20/delaydocs/deguerinletter1017.pdf
BTW, good to see you posting again.
Cheers!
Thanks ... and cheers to you too, as always!
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