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List of Tom DeLay Related Posts

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  The Tom Delay Indictment(s) Will Go Nowhere.......October 8, 2005
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  Tom DeLay Indictment: No Direct Connection. Why Is That ?.......October 6, 2005
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  The DeLay Indictment: The Foreman Speaks out.......October 2, 2005
• Tom DeLay Indictment: Okay Ronnie, Now Prove it! September 28 2005
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  Take THAT! Tom Delay Haters.......September 12, 2005
• So Sorry! Tom Delay Haters.......September 10, 2005
• So Sorry, Again! Tom Delay haters.......September 10, 2005
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  Senator Clinton Must Come Clean About Her Involvement, Or Resign.......April 21, 2005
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  Proving a Negative, Tom Delay's Task, Set by the Left.......April 19, 2005
• Proof, Proof, Ya Gotta Have Proof!.........April 17,2005
• Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Fined $21,000 by FEC........April 14, 2005
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  Barbara Boxer Funnels Money to Son, Media Fails to Notice..........April 14, 2005
• More Than 3 Million Paid to Congressional Family Members in Last Election Cycle.......April 14, 2005
• Newt,We Hardly Knew Ye!.......April 13, 2005
• New York Times, Others Scheme to Oust Tom Delay.......April 11, 2005
• Valerie Has Plamed Out..........April 08, 2005
• Moneybags Soros Funds Tom Delay Critics.......April 6, 2005
• Ronnie Earl, moralizing hypocrite and Nut........November 26, 2004
  

The Tom Delay Indictment(s) Will Go Nowhere

This is why the indictments against Tom DeLay will never see a jury. CNN runs this story online. The crucial information is contained in the box below.

DeLay, R-Texas, and two associates were indicted September 28 on a conspiracy charge that accuses them of illegally steering $190,000 in corporate donations to state legislative candidates in 2002 and disguising the source by sending the money through national Republican campaign committees. The indictment came as that grand jury's term was expiring. After questions were raised about whether the charge applied to state election code, Earle went to a second grand jury, which declined to bring a money laundering charge against the three. Earle then went to a third grand jury, and it returned an indictment on October 3 indicting DeLay and his associates, John Colyandro and Jim Ellis, with money laundering and conspiracy. Friday's motion was filed in Travis County District Court by DeLay's lead attorney, Dick DeGuerin. DeGuerin alleges that once Earle realized DeLay had been charged with a "crime that did not exist in Texas law," the prosecutor and his staff "engaged in an extraordinarily irregular and desperate attempt to contrive a viable charge" before the statute of limitations ended. The motion accuses Earle of trying to cover up that the second grand jury rejected the prosecutor's "new, contrived charges of money laundering."

Ronnie(I Just Enforce The Law) Earle does not have the evidence to support the charges. They are solely political in nature. The indictment(s) will be set aside by a judge.

Tom DeLay Indictment: No Direct Connection. Why Is That ?

Something funny about this graphic published in the Austin-American Statesman. It is billed as a timeline of facts behind charges against Tom DeLay but there are no arrows or mention of Tom Delay in the boxes. Funny, for a person to be as deeply involved as Tom is supposed to be, wouldn't it be appropriate to have at least one direct link between him and the crime?

It is fast becoming plain to any objective observer that Ronnie Earle is grasping at straws. He got the second indictment from a newly impaneled grand jury the within hours of the first meeting, before they were even given orientation. Do you think they had time to consider the evidence?

He had to scramble to get the second indictment, going before two Grand Juries to get one indictment, because he screwed up so bad on the first. A small detail like the law not being in effect at the time of the supposed crime. Hoohaaa Boy! How stupid can one man be?

Besides being a Leftist hack, Ronnie (I Just Enforce The Law, Except When I Don't) Earle is also an incompetent dunce.

The DeLay Indictment: The Foreman Speaks out

William M. Gibson Jr., the foreman of the Austin, Texas Grand Jury that recently indicted Congressman Tom DeLay appears to be spilling his guts to newspaper reporters. He does not get specific, no names or dates does he speak. Just "... stacks and stacks of papers — evidence of telephone calls from Mr. DeLay and everybody" Papers specifying what, phone logs specifying when and who are not given. Just generalities

This is quite puzzling. By Texas law, Grand Jury proceedings are secret and not to be divulged. This excerpt from the Texas Code Of Criminal Procedure states:

"... Art. 20.02.... Proceedings secret ...(b) A grand juror ... who discloses anything transpiring before the grand jury,... shall be liable to a fine as for contempt of the court, not exceeding five hundred dollars, imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or both such fine and imprisonment."

Maybe Gibson is rich enough so that $500 is a trifling sum, and tough enough that a month in jail is no big deal.

Or maybe he thinks that Texas House Bill 462 has become law. HB462 is sponsored by Harold V. Dutton Jr., a Houston Democrat. It changes the Grand Jury oath so that Jury members are compelled to keep their mouths shut only while that particular Grand Jury is in session. When it disbands, they can blab all they want. If this is what William M. Gibson Jr. believes will keep him out of jail, then Harold Dutton, Democrat, should clue him in that HB462 is still in committee. It ain't law!

Or, and this is by far the most likely scenario, Willaim M. Gibson Jr. is secure in the knowledge that the DA of Travis county will not bring charges against him. That District Attorney is none other than Ronnie (I Just Enforce The Law) Earle. To understand just how this would have come about, focus your attention on the imaginary telephone conversation below.

Cell phone custom ring:" I fought the law, and the....law won..I fought the law and the.....law won......" Ronnie Earle: Hello, this is Ronnie Earle, I just enforce the law. William M. Gibson Jr.: Ronnie? Hey Ronnie? It's me Bill. Ronnie Earle: Bill? Bill who? How did you get this number? William Gibson Jr.: You know, Bill. The foreman of the Grand Jury. We indicted Tom DeLay. Ronnie Earle: Oh, sure Bill, what can I do for you? William Gibson Jr.: Well, I'm upset, Ronnie, you said, you promised that if we indicted him he'd curl up like a red worm on hot concrete and you'd scoop him up like roadkill. But he ain't backin' down! He just keeps comin' on the radio, and the TeeVee, smilin' that smile and sayin' over and over that you ain't got nothin'. He might as well be sayin' that we, the Grand Jury are a bunch of dumbasses, for indicting him on your say-so. Ronnie Earle: Yeah........Bill, listen to me for a minute, ole buddy. Are ya listenin'? I kinda, sorta told you all a tiny little white lie. The truth is I don't have nearly as much evidence against him as I let on to ya'll. But I figgered if I got him indicted and he saw what he was up against. He'd see reason and ask for a plea bargain. It's worked so many times before I didn't see why it wouldn't work now. Gibson Jr.: Well, evidently it ain't workin'! What are we going to do now? Ronnie Earle: Well, I got an idea. It involves you. And you'll have to talk to some reporters about some of the things I told you in the Grand Juty session, only you will make out like you actually saw it. Gibson Jr.: Reporters, huh? I don't know. I might say the wrong thing. I might do the wrong thing. What'll I say!?....... Earle: Don't worry about it! You don't have to remember any specific things to say, just generalities, buddy. They'll take it from there. Jr.: ..... and what about the oath I took to keep all that stuff secret? I could go to jail! Earle: Bill! Get ahold of yourself. I swear sometimes you are as dense as a fencepost. I am the guy who brings charges in this county! Do you think I would bring charges against you after all you have done for the Party? You just go ahead an do what I tell you, you ain't got nothin' to worry about. Jr.: Oh, OK! I guess I can expect a call from the news people, huh? Earle: Yeah. Give me a coupl'a hours to set it up with some of my reporter friends. I'll call you back and we'll go over what you're gonna say to 'em again. OK? Jr.: OK.

The foregoing conversation is speculation. But taking into account the low-life that is Ronnie Earle, and his history of political vendetta, it is probably true. Maybe not in the details but the broad strokes are right on target.