There was lots of speculation that Tom DeLay [1] delayed his departure from Congress and his re-election campaign in order to raise as much money as possible for his campaign and then use that money to fund his legal defense.

Now there's a little more evidence to back that up -- Raw Story [2], based on a Roll Call report, posted a story this morning about how high DeLay's legal bills have mounted: $400,000. That's a difficult amount to raise when you're no longer Majority Leader, and no longer sitting in Duke Cunningham [3]'s Appropriations Committee seat.