dirt on DeLay - a great graphic

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Lobbying and public relations fees from various Indian tribes to Abramoff and Scanlon. http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041004/NEWS01/410040343/1002
and
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1006/p02s01-uspo.htm
 
2. The $4.2 million paid to Ralph Reed from monies received by Mike Scanlon and Jack Abramoff from various Indian tribes was reported in the Houston Chronicle, September 26, 2004, p. B9.
 
3. $6,000 reportedly contributed by the Mississippi Choctaw Indian tribe to DeLay’s Texas PAC, TRMPAC (Texans for a Republican Majority PAC).
Source: Lou Dubose, originally in Salon.com, but taken from
http://www.tpj.org/page_view.jsp?pageid=572&pf=1
$18,000 was sent from the Sagniaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan to DeLay’s leadership PAC, ARMPAC (Americans for a Republican Majority PAC).
 
4. This link is based on an allegation that Congressman DeLay made a call to the Bureau of Indian Affairs to shake loose  $3 million for a school to be built for the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe. This is partially confirmed by Keven Gover, former director of the BIA during the Clinton administration.  Gover was quoted as saying that he did not know if such a call was made by DeLay, but that “the bureau was pressured by someone in Congress.”
Source:  Transcript of NPR story “Profile: Congress and FBI investigate two well-connected Republican political operatives,” September 27, 2004.
 
5.      See number 4 above.
 
6. The following paragraph was taken from http://www.plastic.com/comments.html;sid=04/05/24/11221013;cid=6
The article originally appeared in the Washington Post.
 Sometime in October of 2002, payments totaling $500,000 were made by Scanlon's firm to the Republican Governors Association. The RGA had just split off from the Republican National Committee to become a 527 organization, able to collect large "soft money" contributions from all sorts of sources. Enter another Republican Party soft money entity, the Republican National State Elections Committee. Records, which only came to light this year, show that the RGA made contributions of around $2.5 million to the RNSEC late in October. The money trail ends here, with contributions worth $1.2 million paid out by the RNSEC right before the 2002 Alabama elections. Half of the money went to the Alabama Republican Party, and half went directly into Riley's campaign
 
7. See item 6 above.  According to that account, half of the $1.2 million, or $600,000 was paid by the RGA to Governor Riley’s campaign fund.
 
8.  The $100,000 contributed by the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care to TRMPAC was widely reported as part of the announcement by Travis County Ronnie Earle regarding the indictments against three associates of Tom DeLay and eight corporations. It was reported much earlier in the Austin American-Statesman, December 10, 2003.
 
9.  The $10,000 contribution consisted of two $5,000 contributions to ARMPAC in 2002, one from Jack Abramoff, the other from Pamela C. Abramoff.
Source: http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgave.asp?strID=C00292946&Cycle=2002&txtSort=C
These contributions were made in April, 2002. According to Smith in the Washington Post article cited previously, “Since 1997, Abramoff and his wife have contributed $40,000 to DeLay’s political action committees…”
 
10.  The $1,504 payment from ARMPAC to Jack Abramoff for “food and beverage” was listed in http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/expend.asp?strID=C00292946&Cycle=2004
This payment was made in June, 2003.
 
11.  According to the Texans for Public Justice (TPJ) website, Jack Abramoff is a Bush Pioneer during the 2003-2004 election cycle, which means he has raised or will raise at least $100,000 for the President. See http://www.tpj.org/docs/pioneers/pioneers_table.jsp.
 
12.  Ralph Reed is listed on the TPJ website as a Bush Ranger for the 2003-2004election cycle.  Rangers are committed to raise at least $200,000 for the President’s re-election campaign. See http://www.tpj.org/docs/pioneers/pioneers_table.jsp .
 
13.  Haley Barbour is listed as a Minor Pioneer for Bush in the 2000 election cycle, meaning he did not hit the $100,000 goal, according to the TPJ website. See http://www.tpj.org/docs/pioneers/pioneers_table.jsp .
 
14.  This $35,000 contribution to Mr. Barbour was reported in The Clarion-LedgerBusiness at http://www.clarionledger.com/news/0403/04/b04.html .

http://www.opednews.com/toenjes_101504_Bush_DeLay.htm

[DrDebug]

1. And that's the simplified diagram of what we know, right? n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Yes I think so.

There is a detailed article at the link on the bottom of my post.

[Roland99]

2. Here ya go....Delay's House of Scandal

http://houseofscandal.org/

[pnorman]

4. Between the above diagram and the webpage you provided,

(http://houseofscandal.org/), it looks like DeLay and that Abramoff guy are central to much if not most of the web of Reptilican corruption. My guess is that an AWFUL lot of those creeps will do everything in their power to keep DeLay from going down. But that might work out just fine. They too might end up in DEEP trouble.

That was a truly mealy-mouthed speech he gave at that NRA pow-wow. Sounded like he was auditioning for a "tame liberal" role on some RW talkshow. He must be getting worried.

pnorman

[Roland99]

5. I love it when more and more GOP members put their support behind DeLay

And others stay closed-mouthed in fear of saying the wrong thing.



Just keep feeding them more rope. The cover-up will do them in.