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Formally, the Texas indictment accuses DeLay of transferring donated campaign funds from one of his own sources to another arm of the Republican National Committee, an action that violates campaign finance law. The scope of DeLays unethical behavior, however, spans far beyond the indictment itself. DeLay has already been formally sanctioned by the House Ethics Committee for promising a retiring congressman to endorse his son for election to his seat if he voted for President Bushs Medicare plan. That same sanction also admonished him for improperly attempting to use the Federal Aviation Administrations resources to locate Texas lawmakers...
...DeLays case is far from an isolated one. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is currently under investigation for allegedly filing false reports with the Federal Elections Commission that failed to accurately indicate how poor the financial condition of his campaign was. Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove is being investigated for the leak of the identity of a CIA operative to the media. Democrat Thomas Finneran, the former powerful Speaker of the House in Massachusetts, is being investigated for committing perjury when he was questioned about his own aggressive redistricting plan. John Rowland, once the Republican governor...
...response of other politicians to this issue, however, has been amazingly misguided. Consider, for example, President Bushs reaction last spring when the storm clouds were beginning to collect around DeLay. Even after the majority leader was formally admonished by the House Ethics Committee and details about his other serious ethics violations were beginning to emerge, Bush pointedly offered DeLay a ride on Air Force One and referred to him repeatedly as my friend. Other conservatives maintained that the questions about DeLays ethical behavior were part of a liberal conspiracy designed to deviously topple the influential Republican lawmaker from his seat...
When fabled Houston defense attorney Dick DeGuerin strode into an Austin courthouse last week to defend Congressman Tom DeLay, he quoted Yogi Berra, asserting that this would be "d?j? vu all over again." Given the trouncing DeGuerin had handed Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle 12 years ago in their last big face-off, few observers doubted this would be a battle royale. But no one anticipated it would be d?j? vu so quickly...
...DeGuerin promised a similar assault on Delay's behalf, and Monday he filed a motion to dismiss last week's indictment. There was no crime, DeGuerin said, because there was no conspiracy provision in the Texas Election Code until 2003, one year after DeLay's alleged actions. Within hours of DeGuerin's motion to dismiss, Earle convened a new grand jury, which issued a two-count indictment charging DeLay with money laundering under the state's criminal code...