Delay's "Children's Charity Fund" Goes To GOP Convention

[joe1991]

Oh, this is just whole new levels of unexplored wrongness: according to the New York Times, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Innovative Corruption) has set up a charity for abused and neglected children -- which will funnel at least some of the money to the 2004 GOP convention.

... aides to Mr. DeLay... acknowledged that part of the money would go to pay for late-night convention parties, a luxury suite during President Bush's speech at Madison Square Garden and yacht cruises.
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"They are using the idea of helping children as a blatant cover for financing activities in connection with a convention with huge unlimited, undisclosed, unregulated contributions," said Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, a Washington group that helped push through the recent overhaul of the campaign finance laws.


The donors not only get a tax break, but they also get to make a massive, unlimited political contribution in a manner that will never be accounted for publicly.

And apparently the idea is catching on. Senator Bill Frist (R-Slaughtering Cats) is planning to do the same thing, staging an event at Rockefeller Center for six-figure Republican donors... and calling it an AIDS charity.

I'm gonna be sick.

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refs:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/14/politics/14DELA.html?ex=1070341200&en=57bafdd63ee7cfd7&ei=5070

http://www.thismodernworld.com/weblog/mtarchives/week_2003_11_09.html#001222

[agincourt]

1. He has got to be,

the most asine, the most criminal, the most disgusting individual to hold public office for some time. This guy takes being an asshole and running it into the ground 20 times over.

[SharonAnn]

2. But of course. I caught this when they passed the Campaign

Finance Reform bill. They put in a condition that candidates could travel to charity functions and receive other "considerations" for participatingin a charity function. That item had a big, flashing "DANGER" sign on it as far as I was concerned.

I even said to my husband, so they're planning to do more of the same old thing only now they have a method where they don't have to account for it at all. He said "Well, at least it's going to a charity." I replied, "If they set up the charity, do you actually think it will benefit anyone as much as them?" He agreed.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Well they've had so much success funneling money through the

churches. Actually, stalling the faith-based initiative has probably stifled their laundering attempts, so now they're cutting out the middleman and going straight to the charities for the cash.