DeLay attacks prosecutor on campaign website

opportunistic scumbag bastard. IMO.

How a Lobbyist Stacked the Deck
Abramoff Used DeLay Aide, Attacks On Allies to Defeat Anti-Gambling Bill http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/15/AR2005101501539.html

When found out, attack the messenger, not the message - typical Republican ploy.

A typical Republican ploy, Democratic ploy, and ploy of almost any group or individual in trouble.

After looking at DeLays website,while I will agree that is in poor taste and wrong for him to use his website to attack Earle,The facts he presents arent wrong.
He links you to newspaper articles criticizing Earle,he links you to the other cases about people,both dem AND repub,that earle has maliciously attacked,etc.
I dont know if DeLay is guilty or not,but the articles on the DeLay website are interesting.

But,the biggest fault Earle has committed,IMHO,is when he dropped charges and indictments against some major corporations,AFTER they all contrubuted to his pet charities.
That sure sounds like extortion to me.

I still have not heard anyone reasonably explain why Earle dropped the indictments against several major corporations AFTER they paid money into his pet charity.

That really cant be defended.

It's a pet charity? That has to be the stupidest argument yet from those defending Delay...
This from the National Review

source

Next you will be telling us that it was "pet charities" when all those tobacco companies were forced to contribute to antismoking programs as part of the settlements they made.

The law in Texas says that corporations can't donate to campaigns. It isn't a penalty if those that allegedly did it agree to pay for a program that tries to keep corporate money out of campaigns?

This from Texas for Public Justice



From the Washington Post

source
Hmm.. Now it shows partisanship to drop charges if they agree to cooperate?

Let's see.. Who are the ONLY people claiming that the only reason Earle dropped charges against those corporations? Oh.. that's right. The defenders of Delay. No one in the moderate middle is making those outlandish claims.

I can't find a single major news source that has a news story about Earle dropping charges in exchange for donations. Even Fox doesn't appear to have this story. Their only reference cites the National Review. They didn't check the story out themselves.

The real question mystery is how the hell do you people live with yourselves spreading these stories with so little fact?

Wrong, as usual, mysteryman.

I don't see where it amounts to extortion.

I believe that many criminial cases are settled by a fine paid either to the government or to the harmed person. Fines can be paid to entities other than governments.

This seems to be along those lines . Nothing unusual.