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04-03-2006, 09:47 PM
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How do you like your DeLay toast?
Sorry - you only have one option: BURNT!
  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12141276/ MSNBC: DeLay won't run again Chris Matthews reporting former House majority leader won't seek return BREAKING NEWS MSNBC Updated: 10:32 p.m. ET April 3, 2006 MSNBC's Chris Matthews is reporting that Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader, won't seek re-election and will announce his withdrawal from his congressional race on Tuesday. © 2006 MSNBC Interactive 
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04-03-2006, 09:47 PM
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Delay Withdrawing From Race
"MSNBC's Chris Matthews is reporting that Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader, won't seek re-election and will announce his withdrawal from his congressional race on Tuesday."
Hmmm... first his former aide makes a plea bargain with the Feds and now this. Happy day!
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04-03-2006, 09:49 PM
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We are twins! Born on the same date and now this!
Terry
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04-03-2006, 09:52 PM
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I'm not deleting mine - it will take all the fun out of it. Besides it needed to be reported twice!
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#8
04-03-2006, 09:56 PM
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Go now - and you have to split it with me!
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#9
04-03-2006, 10:03 PM
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I'm gonna bump yours - just for grins.
I hadn't heard about his aide making a deal. All I've been hearing is that supposedly Abramoff had "cleared" DeLay of wrongdoing ... somehow. Back room whispers and such reported as fact. And, sadly, you can't buy lottery tix after 9:00 PM here - but I'm getting one tomorrow for sure. Surely there will still be a little magic left in the morning. When I win - would you prefer a yellow Ferrari or a bright red one?
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04-03-2006, 10:16 PM
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04-03-2006, 10:32 PM
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Breaking: DeLay wont seek re-election
Rep. DeLay Won't Seek Reelection
By Jonathan Weisman and Chris Cillizza Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, April 3, 2006; 11:06 PM Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), a primary architect of the House Republican majority who became one of the most powerful and feared leaders in Washington, told House allies tonight that he will resign from the House rather than face a reelection fight that appears increasingly unwinnable. The decision came just three days after his former deputy chief of staff, Tony C. Rudy, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and corruption charges, telling federal prosecutors of a criminal enterprise being run out of DeLay's leadership offices. Rudy's plea agreement did not implicate DeLay in any illegal activities, but by placing the influence-buying efforts of disgraced Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff directly in DeLay's operation, the former aide may have made an already difficult reelection bid all but out of reach. DeLay, who turns 59 this Saturday, did not say precisely when he would step down, but under Texas law, he must either die, be convicted of a felony, or move out of his district to be removed from the November ballot. DeLay told Time magazine that he is likely to change his official residence to Alexandria, Va., by the end of May. He said he informed President Bush of his decision this afternoon. "This had become a referendum on me," he told Time in an article posted on the magazine's Web site. "So it's better for me to step aside and let it be a referendum on ideas, Republican values and what's important for this district." "I'm a realist. I've been around awhile," he added. "I can evaluate political situations." Asked if he had done anything illegal or immoral in public office, DeLay replied: "No." Former aides and sources close to DeLay said his decision was not motivated by Rudy's guilty plea, but by DeLay's concerns that he might lose his suburban Houston seat to his Democratic opponent, former Rep. Nick Lampson, and his belief that another Republican would win. DeLay's reelection race was expected to be one of the most expensive House campaigns in history and a drain on GOP coffers. Once DeLay steps aside, the Texas Republican Party will choose a replacement candidate. Senior House Republicans have been saying for several weeks that DeLay would make his decision based on what was best for the Republican Party. Indeed, Democratic House campaign officials have been hoping that in November their candidate would face DeLay, whom they believe could be the weakest Republican candidate they could hope for. DeLay got a temporary political boost last month when he fended off three challengers to win a Republican primary with 62 percent of the vote. But recent polls showed an uphill climb against Lampson and another former congressman, Steve Stockman, who had cut his ties to the Republican Party to run as an independent. In early January, a Houston Chronicle poll showed DeLay trailing Lampson 30 percent to 22 percent, with Stockman taking 11 percent. A December poll by CNN, USA Today and Gallup also indicated that a credible Democrat could beat DeLay. DeLay's decision capped a long, difficult slide from power that began in September, when a Texas grand jury indicted him on money-laundering and illegal campaign finance charges. Under House Republican rules, DeLay had no choice but to relinquish is post as House majority leader, but he vowed to beat the charges and quickly return to power. In the ensuing months, the separate federal corruption probe stemming from Abramoff's activities drew closer to DeLay, first eliciting a guilty plea from DeLay's former press secretary, Michael Scanlon, then from Abramoff, whom DeLay once described as "one of my closest and dearest friends." Some House Republicans publicly stated DeLay could not be allowed to return to the House leadership if his implication in the Abramoff scandal appeared inevitable. In January, DeLay bowed to pressure from fellow Republicans and abandoned his quest to regain the majority leader's post. At that time, however, he pledged to seek reelection, and he quickly snared a coveted seat on the House Appropriations Committee. His renunciation of the leader's post touched off a scramble among Republicans eager to move past the DeLay era. A month later, Rep John Boehner (R-Ohio) upset DeLay's protege, House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), to win the highest position in the Republican conference, effectively ending the DeLay era of leadership that stretched back to Dec. 6, 1994, and the Republican Revolution. When Republicans swept to power that year, DeLay capitalized on his fundraising prowess in a successful race for majority whip against Rep. Robert S. Walker (R-Pa.). A former pest exterminator, DeLay had already been in Congress since 1985, and his fundraising largesse, especially with the huge freshman class of 1994, helped him overtake Walker, who was Rep. Newt Gingrich's best friend. DeLay became arguably the most effective whip in modern House history. He corralled Republicans into a lock-step discipline that blocked much of former President Bill Clinton's agenda in the 1990s, engineered the impeachment of Clinton -- the first time a sitting president had been impeached in over 100 years -- and later turned the House into President Bush's firewall against Senate Republican dissent. Beyond those legislative accomplishments, DeLay worked to turn Washington's lobbying and business community into a bulwark of Republican support, dispensing legislative favors to those who played along. He was admonished by the House Ethics Committee in 1999 for retaliating against a trade association that hired a Democrat. But his take-no-prisoners style did not begin to undermine his authority until 2002, when in an unprecedented power play, he jumped into Texas state politics to help secure a Republican majority in the state legislature, then personally pushed a redistricting plan to secure six additional House seats for his GOP majority. During the redistricting fight, Texas Democrats fled the state, in an ultimately futile effort to deny Republicans the quorum needed for a final vote. In 2004, the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct rebuked DeLay for asking federal aviation officials to track a plane ferrying Democrats to Oklahoma. The panel also rebuked him for improperly pressuring a fellow Republican to vote for the Republicans' Medicare prescription drug benefit and for creating the appearance that Westar Energy Inc. received special consideration in exchange for campaign donations. The Texas redistricting fight is seen by some as a crowning political achievement, but also his undoing. Travis County's Democratic prosecutor, Ronnie Earle, secured an indictment on charges that DeLay solicited business contributions, then laundered them through Washington and into the campaign coffers of Republican state legislative candidates. Texas law forbids business donations to State House campaigns. The indictment cost DeLay his leadership post, but the redistricted map may have cost him his seat. DeLay gave up some Republican strongholds in his district to help elect new Republicans in neighboring districts, bringing his own majority down to 55 percent in the 2004 election. This election year promises to be far more difficult. © 2006 The Washington Post Company ******** WOO HOO! can you say "House of Cards" boys and girls? 
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04-03-2006, 10:45 PM
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so WHICH threads do you want this in? I need clear instructions. Im old and feeble!
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04-03-2006, 10:48 PM
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04-03-2006, 10:52 PM
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