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PhilipShore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-14-06 03:42 AM
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Baltimore Sun: 3 vying for DeLay's post
Baltimore Sun
January 14, 2006

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.house14jan14,1,1695003.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines

WASHINGTON // House Republicans, fearing a voter backlash over the influence-peddling and campaign finance investigations that knocked Rep. Tom DeLay of Texas, from his leadership post, are hoping that whomever they choose as a replacement will help distance them from the scandals.

But they are running into a problem. The people competing to succeed DeLay have links to some of the same lobbyists and fundraising machinery that have put him, and the Republican Party, in political peril.
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