{"id":1108,"date":"2004-02-16T13:21:20","date_gmt":"2004-02-16T20:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/impeach-tom-delay\/"},"modified":"2004-02-16T13:21:20","modified_gmt":"2004-02-16T20:21:20","slug":"impeach-tom-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/impeach-tom-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Impeach Tom DeLay!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Inquiry Focuses on Group DeLay Created\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/02\/16\/politics\/16DELA.html?th=&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;position=\">Inquiry Focuses on Group DeLay Created<\/a> By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., NYTimes<\/p>\n<p>A political action committee created by <b>Tom DeLay, the House majority leader<\/b>, enjoyed tremendous success here in 2002: all but 3 of 21 Republican candidates the committee backed for state representative won their races, helping the party take control of the Texas House.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Republicans used that clout to carve Texas into new Congressional districts under a plan that political analysts say will bring them at least five new seats in Congressional elections this year.<\/p>\n<p><b>But local prosecutors and a grand jury here have been investigating the committee, Texans for a Republican Majority, including its use of corporate donations in the election, lawyers close to the case said.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Investigators are also examining whether there were <b>violations of a law<\/b> intended to curb the ability of outside groups to influence the race for House speaker, the lawyers said. The investigation follows a complaint filed with prosecutors last year by <a title=\"Texans for Public Justice is a non-partisan, non-profit policy and research organization which tracks the influence of money and corporate power in Texas politics. Texans for Public Justice is a vocal advocate for citizen rights, open government and corporate accountability in Texas.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tpj.org\/index.jsp\">Texans for Public Justice<\/a>, a campaign watchdog group. <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"mjh's Weblog Entry - 05\/27\/2003: Tom Delay: 'I am the federal government.'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/blogs\/archives\/00000148.htm\">mjh&#8217;s Weblog Entry &#8211; 05\/27\/2003: Tom Delay: &#8220;I am the federal government.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inquiry Focuses on Group DeLay Created By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., NYTimes A political action committee created by Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, enjoyed tremendous success here in 2002: all but 3 of 21 Republican candidates the committee backed for state representative won their races, helping the party take control of the Texas House. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/impeach-tom-delay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Impeach Tom DeLay!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}