Seems like the Republicans still love their dirty tricks. From Matt Stoller: Terry Nelson, an unindicted co-conspirator in the TRMPAC Tom Delay scandal, and the boss of Jim Tobin, the convicted felon in the NH phone-jamming case, is the head of opposition research for the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. So it’s not a surprise that […]
Tom Delay vowed his innocence and his desire to a speedy trial to clear his “good” name after his indictment. Well the first delay was caused by him when his attorney complained that the judge assigned to the case was partisan. Judge Perkins had given to the Kerry campaign last year and also donated money […]
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 […]