New Hampshire Congressman Jeb Bradley isn’t doing Colorado Reps. Bob Beauprez and Marilyn Musgrave any favors. We missed this last week, but Bradley has announced that he will return $15,000 in campaign funds from Tom DeLay’s political action committee. From the Associated Press:
Rep. Jeb Bradley, R-N.H., says he will return $15,000 in campaign funds from former House majority leader Tom DeLay’s political action committee.
DeLay was indicted Wednesday by a Texas grand jury on a charge of conspiring to violate political fundraising laws. DeLay says he’s done nothing wrong, but has stepped aside as House majority leader.
In a statement to the New Hampshire Union Leader, Bradley said that though the political action committee that gave him money is not under investigation he is returning it to remove any question about the nature of the contribution.
With DeLay’s second indictment coming down yesterday, this one for the more serious charge of money laundering, political opponents are going to be going after anyone with strong ties to DeLay. One of the calls, which Democrat Angie Paccione made yesterday, is that anyone who took money from a DeLay PAC should return those contributions. Republicans such as Musgrave can dismiss those calls as politically-motivated…but as soon as other Republicans start actually returning that money then their excuse gets flimsy. When Bradley, a Republican, announced he was returning his PAC money from DeLay political opponents of Beauprez and Musgrave can say, “Bradley did it. Why won’t you?”
h/t to the folks at SoapBlox for the link.
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What does it take to get a brand new Grand Jury to cough up a money laundering indictment on its first day? Either this is one truly gullible Grand Jury, or the evidence collected by the previous GJ – the one that gave DeLay his initial indictment ulcer – did indeed have “stacks” of evidence, as the foreman stated.
The money-laundering charge carries a potential life sentence, and the charge itself makes it sound so much more like DeLay’s involved in Mob-like activities.
flimsy to whom? Oh wait! The evidence doesn’t matter, what counts is the seriousness of the charge. pretty flimsy.
Plumber – answer my post if you will: what can get a brand-spankin’-new Grand Jury to issue a money laundering charge in less than a day? Answer: solid stacks of evidence. I’ve testified before a Grand Jury before – the jurists asked tough questions expressing skepticism at the prosecution’s case, despite some pretty obvious evidence. I don’t think this Texas Grand Jury is going to be that much different.
DeLay has so much more serious issues coming down the pike; the Abramoff investigation has DeLay up to his eyeballs in s**t, and has involved Scotland Yard. Whatever past DeLay had, his future is wrapped in further ethics scandals.
Delay is done as ML no matter what the evidence is. With Blunt in control, there is NO chance he’s giving it up.
At least not until Blunt falls under the same kind of investigation… His blatant pandering to the tobacco industry put him at the top of CREW’s “most corrupt list” just one week before he was promoted. The least the GOP could have done was put someone without as much baggage in the leadership post.
i just like the hat tip.
It’s going to get very ugly. Once the precedent is set for indicting corrupt Republicans, the potential is there to bring the whole administration down.
Expect them to fight this tooth and nail . . .
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