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...DeLay: First thing in the morning. We're going to lay it out. We will send a [videotaped] speech to all the media outlets. We will send a letter to my district through e-mail and otherwise we will send a letter to the members explaining why I'm doing what I'm doing, and that'll be that...
...reelection and that I'm going to leave Congress sometime-I haven't figured out because I have some things to do, to finish. I'm working very hard on the President's vision for NASA and that's incredibly important for the nation, as well as this district. I'm working on some district things. I hope to get through those things as fast as possible. But it'll take a couple months. So I don't know exactly the date. I'll probably come up with a date in the next couple weeks...
...have been fighting this effort for a long time, and we were continuing to fight it. We knew that the indictments were frivolous. Being indicted under laws that don't exist is frivolous. But we thought that we could get to court in December. Obviously, [Travis County, Tex., District Attorney]Ronnie Earle's strategy is to drag it out past the November election. That's QUITE obvious now. You live it day by day and you fight it day by day. It didn't work out. The Abramoff stuff hit with [former lobbyist] Jack Abramoff's pleading guilty in January...
...DeLay: We had just run a primary. We had a poll coming out in December that showed we were in decent shape but the district was quite polarized. There was very small undecided. And fortunately there were more supporting me than against me. But my support was incredibly strong. My opposition was also incredibly strong...
...DeLay: Could have. There's no reason to risk a seat. This is a very strong Republican district. It's obvious to me that anybody but me running here will overwhelmingly win the seat. This had become a referendum on me. So it's better for me to step aside and let it be a referendum on ideas, Republican values and what's important for this district...