Reply #26: Group wants DeLay donations returned [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Group wants DeLay donations returned
Thursday, October 6, 2005 By Paul M. Krawzak Copley WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT

WASHINGTON A group calling itself “We the People” has been delivering recorded phone messages to homes in Reps. Ralph Regula’s and Bob Ney’s congressional districts, urging residents to tell their Republican congressman to return any donations received from indicted House Republican leader Tom DeLay.

GOP officials are trying to track down the elusive group. Democratic Party operatives deny any knowledge of the campaign.

Regula, R-Bethlehem Township, has no plans to return the $533 that campaign records show he received in 1998.

“Why would I return it?” said Regula, who himself received one of the phone calls Sunday. “It was perfectly legal. He wasn’t in trouble in 1998.”
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“I think it’s a desperation act. They can’t deal with the issues, so they’re trying to link us to Tom DeLay. That’s like linking every Democrat to Bill Clinton, who had a lot more serious charge,” he said of the former president who was impeached by the House of Representatives but acquitted by the Senate.
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