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Monday, April 25, 2005 

:: El Crimen de Tomas DeLay 3:26 PM

  • letting campaign donors buy legislative favors
  • threatening to kill the legislation of an industry group because it had hired a Democrat as its top lobbyist
  • selling meetings with Bush Administration officials for $20,000 donations
  • giving special access to a corporate campaign contributor
  • using a federal agency for partisan political purposes
  • trying to bribe another member of congress to vote with him
  • illegally laundering corporate money
  • taking four junkets illegally paid for by lobbyists and foreign agents
  • funneling half-a-million dollars in campaign cash to his wife and daughter.
Of course, those are the illegal activities, his legal activities have been worse, but it doesn't really matter because its all Clintons fault anyway.

While we are at it, lets give an honorable mention to Wendy Gramm, the wife of former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm. As a senior official at OMB in the 1980's, Wendy Gramm fought hard to eliminate federal regulations. Her most notorious victory came in 1992 when, as chair of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, she pushed through a measure exempting companies that trade in energy derivatives from regulation, following an intense lobbying campaign by Enron. Gramm resigned from the commission and accepted a seat on the Enron board of directors, where she was paid $1.85 million and received donations from the company to support Mercatus. Enron, meanwhile, used its exemption from federal oversight to engage in its infamous accounting fraud that destroyed the company and bankrupted investors.
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