Reviewers of Delay's ethics got his money

[JoFerret]

http://www.thevictoriaadvocate.com/local/state/story/2065399p-2390793c.html

AUSTIN (AP) - Four of the five Republicans investigating an ethics complaint against House Majority Leader Tom DeLay have received campaign contributions from DeLay's political action committee, records show.

The contributions - $28,504 split among the four over the past seven years - were all delivered before the ethics committee received the DeLay complaint June 15. But it is an example of awkward situations spawned by the U.S. House's decision to police itself on ethics.

"I think all the members hate" serving on the committee, said Larry Noble, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan government watchdog.

"You're put in the position of either doing nothing - which is what they generally do - in which case you are fairly criticized for not taking your job seriously. On the other hand, you can try to enforce the rules and get all the other members angry at you," Noble told the Austin American-Statesman for its Sunday editions.

Though they would not comment on the record, those associated with the ethics committee, officially known as the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, disagree.
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[SoFlaJet]

1. he is scum

and will get his come uppance just like Bob Barr got his.Hey what's with those names and their negative connotations DeLay and Barr?Kind of apropos are they not?

[tom_paine]

2. Very Typical Totalitarian Bushevik behavior

If it was 20 years from now, he could have had them killed.