{"id":903,"date":"2003-11-14T12:09:38","date_gmt":"2003-11-14T19:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/tom-delay-is-corrupt\/"},"modified":"2003-11-14T12:09:38","modified_gmt":"2003-11-14T19:09:38","slug":"tom-delay-is-corrupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/tom-delay-is-corrupt\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Delay is corrupt"},"content":{"rendered":"

G.O.P. Leader Solicits Money for Charity Tied to Convention<\/a> By MICHAEL SLACKMAN, NYTimes<\/p>\n

It is an unusual charity brochure: a 13-page document, complete with pictures of fireworks and a golf course, that invites potential donors to give as much as $500,000 to spend time with Tom DeLay<\/b> during the Republican convention in New York City next summer — and to have part of the money go to help abused and neglected children. …<\/p>\n

[C]ampaign finance watchdogs say Mr. DeLay’s effort can be seen as, above all, a creative maneuver around the recently enacted law meant to limit the ability of federal officials to raise large donations known as soft money. …<\/p>\n

[B]ecause the money collected will go into a nonprofit organization, donors get a tax break<\/b>. And Mr. DeLay will never have to account publicly for who contributed<\/b>, which campaign finance experts say shields those who may be trying to win favor with one of the most powerful lawmakers in Washington.<\/p>\n

See also: mjh’s Weblog Entry – 05\/27\/2003: “Tom Delay: I am the federal government.”<\/a><\/p>\n

[Speaker of the House Tom] DeLay recently revealed how he felt about rules of general applicability. When he tried smoking a cigar in a restaurant on federal property, the manager told him it violated federal law. His response, according to The Washington Post, was, “I am the federal government.”<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

G.O.P. Leader Solicits Money for Charity Tied to Convention By MICHAEL SLACKMAN, NYTimes It is an unusual charity brochure: a 13-page document, complete with pictures of fireworks and a golf course, that invites potential donors to give as much as $500,000 to spend time with Tom DeLay during the Republican convention in New York City … Continue reading Tom Delay is corrupt<\/span> →<\/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-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","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=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}