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Texas redistricting

Nancy Watzman — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:31:00 +0000

Lu Dubose, co-author with Jan Reid of The Hammer Comes Down: The Nasty, Brutish and Shortened Political Life of Tom DeLay, has a good piece over at TomPaine.com summarizing the DeLay Texas redistricting debacle.He reminds us that the U.S. Sup...

Tom DeLay crowing to Pittsburgh Tribune

Nancy Watzman — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:02:00 +0000

Here's Tom DeLay crowing to Pittsburgh Tribune Review columnist Salena Zito:For all the hand-wringing people do about partisan politics, the fact of the matter is that the redistricting process pretty accurately reflects the will of the peopl...

DeLay Front Page News...Again

Nancy Watzman — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:14:00 +0000

Tom DeLay must be rethinking the adage that all publicity is good publicity. He makes the nation's front pages again today, as newspapers report on the Supreme Court's decision to take up the Texas redistricting case. Here is the Washington ...

Quick links to stories of note

David Donnelly — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:41:00 +0000

I'm in meetings over the next couple of days so blogging will be a little light. Here are two stories of note, though. The first is a Dallas Morning News editorial that was syndicated by Knight-Ridder, which means it appeared elsewhere:Beyond...

Hearing set for motion to move trial

David Donnelly — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 09:11:00 +0000

November 22nd.Interesting admission:The brief filed by DeLay's lawyers said the role he played in dividing the county into three congressional districts during the 2003 congressional redistricting battle had made him "unpopular" in Travis C...

Civil Trial on DeLay's TRMPAC, Day One

David Donnelly — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:54:00 +0000

Day Two may be more interesting, but here is the key facts from Day One in the TRMPAC civil case, as summarized by R.G. Ratcliffe of the Houston Chronicle: During a meeting in San Antonio with TRMPAC advisory board members, including [TRMPA...

Tom DeLay on CNN on Social Security and redistricting

David Donnelly — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:49:00 +0000

The transcript:JUDY WOODRUFF: With me now to talk more about the president's Social Security reforms and other issues is Republican Tom DeLay of Texas. He is the House majority leader. He joins us from Capitol Hill. Mr. Leader, the president ...

Postcards from Austin

David Donnelly — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:34:00 +0000

This is the Texas State Capitol building, otherwise known as the scene of the crime.During the height of the redistricting battle in 2003, Tom DeLay, the Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, visited the State Capitol building ...

DeLay Unplugged

David Donnelly — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 16:29:00 +0000

Daily DeLay, T-Minus 10 Days and CountingIn DeLay's Own WordsIn order to find out who a person is, you have to listen to what they say. The Daily DeLay today provides some of Tom DeLay's statements in that spirit. If you know of other statem...

Noose is tightening?

David Donnelly — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:44:00 +0000

Tom DeLay got served.Associated Press:House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has been subpoenaed to testify in a Texas civil lawsuit about his role in using government resources to track down Democratic legislators who fled the state during last year...