A little something more to give thanks for tomorrow as Tom Delay was just found guilty of money laundering: A Travis County jury today found former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay guilty of political money laundering charges relating to a corporate money swap in the 2002 elections. The verdict came down five years after […]
President Obama seems pretty pissed about the decision by the Supreme Court to open the flood gates on corporate money into the political arena: With its ruling today, the Supreme Court has given a green light to a new stampede of special interest money in our politics. It is a major victory for big oil, […]
More on Delay fromReuters Indicted DeLay leaves House leadership post The second-ranking Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, Tom DeLay, said on Wednesday he would step aside temporarily from his leadership post following an indictment on a campaign-finance charge. A grand jury in Travis County, Texas, indicted DeLay on a single felony conspiracy charge […]