Papers: DeLay Group Used $100K for Races

[RedEarth]

WASHINGTON - Tom DeLay's political group used nearly $100,000 in corporate and unlimited donations to mail last-minute political appeals praising five congressional candidates despite rules meant to keep such money out of federal races, documents released Thursday show.



The records also detail payments DeLay's group made to Jim Ellis and Warren Robold, two longtime fundraisers indicted in Texas in the same state campaign finance case as DeLay. All three men say they are innocent in that case.

The documents from the Federal Election Commission's audit of DeLay's Americans for a Republican Majority PAC (ARMPAC) were obtained by Political Money Line, a group that studies campaign fundraising.

They show DeLay's ARMPAC sent money from its so-called soft-money account before the November 2002 election to pay for mailings for such candidates as Indiana Republican Chris Chocola, who won election to the House that year.

An ARMPAC mailing to gun-owning voters in Chocola's race for an open congressional seat praised him as someone who "will protect the sporting traditions that Indiana sportsmen have passed on. For future generations to continue to enjoy our heritage, we need the leadership of Chris Chocola."

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[AlCzervik]

1. oh dear, i don't how much more good news i can take today.

[Rose Siding]

2. That's the ballgame then, isn't it?

That wouldn't even involve money laundering. They took TX straight to the cleaners.

[belle]

3. He's being helped by Count Chocula?! That makes sense.

[Demobrat]

4. So who's paying for the ad campaign trashing

the prosecutor? Who pays for that? The taxpayers?

[G_j]

5. Papers: DeLay Group Used $100K for Races

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5342992,00.html

Papers: DeLay Group Used $100K for Races

Friday October 14, 2005 5:31 AM


By SHARON THEIMER

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Tom DeLay's political group used nearly $100,000 in corporate and unlimited donations to mail last-minute political appeals praising five congressional candidates despite rules meant to keep such money out of federal races, documents released Thursday show.

The records also detail payments DeLay's group made to Jim Ellis and Warren Robold, two longtime fundraisers indicted in Texas in the same state campaign finance case as DeLay. All three men say they are innocent in that case.

The documents from the Federal Election Commission's audit of DeLay's Americans for a Republican Majority PAC (ARMPAC) were obtained by Political Money Line, a group that studies campaign fundraising.

They show DeLay's ARMPAC sent money from its so-called soft-money account before the November 2002 election to pay for mailings for such candidates as Indiana Republican Chris Chocola, who won election to the House that year.

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[lanlady]

7. where's the other $90,000?

The check in question was for $190K. Did the Bugman pocket the rest?

So now Earle knows the source of the cash, how it was routed/laundered, and how it was spent.:D

[OKNancy]

6. Kick

:kick:

[struggle4progress]

8. kick

[PurityOfEssence]

9. Is Jim Ellis related to the Bush family?

I've tried with some online searches to see if this guy is part of the Ellis family that's closely related to Junior, but haven't had any luck. Is he?