{"id":1755,"date":"2006-04-03T18:51:40","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T01:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/delays-top-aide\/"},"modified":"2006-04-01T14:52:19","modified_gmt":"2006-04-01T21:52:19","slug":"delays-top-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/delays-top-aide\/","title":{"rendered":"DeLay&#8217;s Top Aide"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>DeLay&#8217;s righthand man was on the take. So, was DeLay oblivious or involved. Which do you like better: inept or corrupt? <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/03\/31\/AR2006033101742.html\">A Force Behind the Power<\/a> By Juliet Eilperin and Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, Washington Post Staff Writers<\/p>\n<p>When Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) was working his way up the leadership ladder in the 1990s, he often turned to an athletic assistant named Tony C. Rudy.<\/p>\n<p>Rudy, now 39, was known as a bare-knuckle political operator who was trusted explicitly by his ambitious boss. &#8230; With Rudy&#8217;s help, DeLay rose to the No. 2 position in the House Republican leadership.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/news\/politics\/14235316.htm\">Key events in the Tony Rudy investigation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DeLay&#8217;s righthand man was on the take. So, was DeLay oblivious or involved. Which do you like better: inept or corrupt? mjh A Force Behind the Power By Juliet Eilperin and Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, Washington Post Staff Writers When Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) was working his way up the leadership ladder in the 1990s, he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/delays-top-aide\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DeLay&#8217;s Top Aide<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","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=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}