House Majority Leader Problems – Take 2?

Roy Blunt is now involved in the legal problems of Tom Delay as reported in
today’s

New York Times:

Prosecutors Seek More of DeLay’s
Records

 By THE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 – Texas prosecutors in the criminal case against
Representative Tom DeLay issued a subpoena on Wednesday for records of
transactions between his national political action committee and a political
committee run by his successor as House majority leader, Roy Blunt of
Missouri.

The subpoena, issued in Austin, the Texas capital, asked for all records
from Mr. DeLay’s committee, Americans for a Republican Majority, about its
contributions from 2000 to 2002 to Mr. Blunt’s committee, Rely on Your Own
Beliefs Fund, and to the state Republican Party in Missouri, where Mr.
Blunt’s son is governor.

The subpoena offered no explanation of why prosecutors wanted the
records, although news reports have recently questioned why thousands of
dollars raised by Mr. DeLay and his committee to entertain delegates at the
2000 Republican convention were shifted to Mr. Blunt’s committee.

Mr. Blunt’s committee made a $10,000 contribution at about the same time
to a charity controlled by Mr. DeLay.

“There’s nothing that any of these committees did that was improper,”
said Stefan Passantino, a lawyer for Mr. Blunt.

A spokesman for Mr. DeLay, who is charged with conspiring to undermine a
Texas ban on corporate donations to political candidates, had no immediate
comment on the subpoena.

So if Missouri ends up deciding to investigate Blunt or he get’s an
indictment in Texas we could be looking at another leadership change in the
House. The corruption continues to grow deep.