Breaking News: Texas Supremes Uphold DeLay Indictment Dismissal
well done Ronnie...kill a career on unfounded charges...well done
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Thanks to my main man Dan McLaughlin, the decision is HERE...
According to the Austin American Statesman [subscription] the dismissal of one of Tom DeLay's charges - "conspiring to violate state election laws" has been upheld 5-4 in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state's highest criminal court:
The state’s highest criminal court today affirmed the 2005 dismissal of a felony indictment against former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and two associates.
In the 5-4 decision, the court affirmed Judge Pat Priest’s decision to throw out an indictment accusing DeLay and his associates, Jim Ellis and John Colyandro, of conspiring to violate state election laws. The Sugar Land Republican, who retired from Congress in 2006 because of the indictments arising from the 2002 elections, still faces a charge of conspiring to launder corporate money into campaign donations.
Awesome. Excellent. REALLY BAD for Ronnie Earle. Too bad, so sad, big Ron...
The rest of the article pasted below the fold...
In 2005, just months after the indictments, Priest ruled that the state’s conspiracy statute did not apply to the election code until Sept. 1, 2003, long after the 2002 elections in which DeLay’s political committee, Texans for a Republican Majority, spent about $600,000 of corporate money on consultants, professional fundraisers and pollsters as part of an effort to elect a GOP majority to the Legislature. That Republican-dominated Legislature then approved DeLay’s plan to redraw the state’s congressional map to favor Republicans.
State election law generally forbids corporate and union money from being spent in connection with campaigns. Lawyers for DeLay and his associates have staved off criminal trials by challenging the state’s election laws on constitutional grounds. Prosecutors appealed Priest’s 2005 ruling.
A decision on the second indictment, which Priest upheld but DeLay appealed, is pending at the Third Court of Appeals.
Many have disagreed with me in the past, although Kay Bailey doesn't, when I suggest that the prosecutor in this case, the one - the only - Ronnie Earle is as corrupt as a laptop suffering the dreaded blue screen of death...
It's not lost on us cynics out here that the indictments, gotten after serious Grand Jury shopping, were timed in such a way as to help the Dems run on their much-touted, often ignored "culture of corruption" mantra. Guess what? It worked.
However you feel about DeLay (I happen to like him) he was railroaded...run out of Dodge...and a career destroyed because of this fiasco.
One more indictment left...one more dismissal HOPEFULLY awaits the Congressman, who will NEVER get the apology he deserves when the chapter closes on this debacle.
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they just never mention that the Dems he went after were political opponents.
"A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition." -- Rudyard Kipling
works both ways, and there are a lot of Republican AGs and DAs out there. I could rattle of quite a few Ds well deserving of legitimate indictments, yet for some reason Republican AGs want to be above that sort of thing. A little quid pro quo at the state level and some adult supervision in USDOJ would stop this stuff, or better yet, at least make it even handed.
The only thing USDOJ seems interested in is busting Republicans. They've turned politics in my state upside down and for the first time in nearly thirty years, Alaska is in some danger of Democrats capturing at least one body of the Legislature or holding a statewide office. Thanks, GWB!
In Vino Veritas
as well as the excited leads on the evening news. I also must check the liberal[?] sites for their fair and relieved comments on this decision. Relieved because they knew all along that this was a replay of the Kay Bailey Hutchinson fiasco and that Ronnie Earle is lower than pig dirt.
In anticipation of the final vindication of The Hammer may we begin the search for a suitable location for the crucifixion of Earle? Donations accepted, refreshments available, cheering encouraged. All funds raised will go to the Tom Delay Vindication & Victory Fund. Any monies left over will help pay for Ronnie Earle's cremation, the ashes to be scattered in a cesspool.
Or am I being too kind?
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
Ya know, I recall when Hillary was basically no-billed (I'm not a greedy blood-sucking lawyer so forgive if I misuse the terminology), and the prosecutor, in so many words, said "we did not have enough evidence to convict". My recollection is a huge public victory parade provided by all the media far and wide, and the word "vindication" was spilled out as generously as all the champagne being poured in news offices.
Vindication for any Republican is a little harder to come by, but I'm holding my breath in anticipation.
It's war -- so when can we start shooting back at the enemy Democrats?
who couldn't wait to show Mr. Delay the door.
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The CIA has better politicians than it has spies - Fred Thompson
Just another day in the life of Ronnie Earle, another democrat graduate of the Mike Nifong school of legal ethics.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly, one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to fit facts.
Whats truly sad is that the tactic worked.
Then you have the drones on the left thinking they actually benefited from this.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
I can tell you that you are not about to "Nifong" Ronnie Earle. He is a good soldier for the Dems. He is the one that went after Kay Bailey. If she had not been the right sex at the right time, she would have gone down like DeLay. If Ronnie is threatened you have never seen the like of circling-the-wagons that will go on. If the R's would not have the Supreme Court, Tom would be indicted right now.
"One useless man is called a disgrace, two men are called a law firm, and three or more become a Congress. "
-- John Adams
Let's refresh our memory of all the things Earle has done in this case:
-Dollars for Dismissals. Tried to shakedown 8 coporations for $1 million a piece to drop their charges. This was not a plea deal it was a shakedown.
-Earle allows filmakers to follow him around before and after the indictments.
-Earle was asked to investigate Democrats and he refused. Earle later goes on record saying he wasn't even asked to investigate Democrats even though he wrote an official letter refusing to investigate and the press wrote about his refusal.
-Earle indicted DeLay on two more charges even after a grand jury handed up a no bill saying they found no evidence to indict.
-The forman in the grand jury that indicted DeLay said he didn't even need to look at the evidence becuase he already decided DeLay was guilty.
-Earle subpeonaed all kinds of personal and financial information from DeLay but Earle refused to show his budget, paid by taxpers, and how much he has spent on this case.
Read complete chronology at www.politicallycharged.org
facts are important
that Earle also went after several Democrats in his tenure.
Clearly the KBH and DeLay cases were a mockery.