When I began this blog in 2001, I was appalled by President Bush's headlong rush to an illegal war (we were not in fact under attack). As time wore on and Bush began his assault on the Constitution and any people bold enough to criticize, I believed that "the republic is endangered more by actions of our own government than by those of any terrorist." With the election of a high-minded, compassionate, intelligent man like Barack Obama, my fears have ceased.
"Honor them with peace, not war"
United for Peace
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
U.S. House Majority Leader Tom Delay and a couple of pals have been meddling with the Republic. They've been indicted on felony charges of violating Texas election law and criminal conspiracy to violate election law for their role in the 2002 legislative races.
How does a legislative race in a Texas backwater affect the Republic?
According to a CNN.com report
"Helping" Republicans win control of the state Legislature consisted largely, it appears, of gathering and laundering (masking the source of) illegal campaign contributions from corporations. Corporate donations are barred in elections.
The Republican majority thus illegally elected tried to ram through a Texas redistricting plan nine years before a new one was due (redistricting occurs every ten years) and improperly used a federal agency to corral a group of Democratic legislators who left the state rather than contribute to the quorum needed to vote on the plan.
Copyright © 2001-03 Pam Shorey
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GOP leader has been meddling with the Republic
U.S. House Majority Leader Tom Delay and a couple of pals have been meddling with the Republic. They've been indicted on felony charges of violating Texas election law and criminal conspiracy to violate election law for their role in the 2002 legislative races.
How does a legislative race in a Texas backwater affect the Republic?
According to a CNN.com report
DeLay first helped Republicans win control of the state Legislature in 2002, then engineered a Republican redistricting plan that gave the state's U.S. House delegation a 21-11 majority in the current Congress.
DeLay was admonished by the House ethics committee on three matters last year, including what the panel said was improperly getting the Federal Aviation Administration to intervene in a state political dispute. The dispute involved tracking down Democratic legislators who fled the state to avoid voting on the redistricting plan.
"Helping" Republicans win control of the state Legislature consisted largely, it appears, of gathering and laundering (masking the source of) illegal campaign contributions from corporations. Corporate donations are barred in elections.
The Republican majority thus illegally elected tried to ram through a Texas redistricting plan nine years before a new one was due (redistricting occurs every ten years) and improperly used a federal agency to corral a group of Democratic legislators who left the state rather than contribute to the quorum needed to vote on the plan.
Palema
8:16 PM
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