Craddick was deeply involved in raising, distributing money..(DeLay's PAC)

[GOPisEvil]

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/auto/epaper/editions/tuesday/news_0413ac9f72c0608a00c2.html

While he campaigned to be leader of the Texas House of Representatives, Tom Craddick of Midland delivered $152,000 from a political action committee to 14 Republican candidates crucial to his election as speaker.

The committee, Texans for a Republican Majority, is under criminal investigation after it was accused of violating state campaign finance laws, and Craddick's critics are questioning whether he also stepped over a legal line.


For years, Craddick, the longest-serving Republican in the House, had tried to marshal Republican money to elect a GOP majority and unseat Democrat Pete Laney. When Craddick publicly stepped aside in 2002 to run as speaker, U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and other Craddick allies took over that role.

[Homer12]

1. Delay, Frist & most of the Texas Republicans

Are corrupt to the core, maybe their means will eventually put them in jail. Then we will all win.

Just some good ol'Boys, doing what good ol'boys do.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Good ole boys = white mafioso men.

When you see what kind of damage they're capable of inflicting, you wonder why the FBI and CIA don't put them on their watch list.

[Vogon_Glory]

7. If Dubya Was Restoring Honor And Integrity To The

Most of these Republicans were in office and worked with the pResident back when he was Governor of Texas. If Dubya was supposedly "restoring" honor and integrity to the White House, was this Texas Legislatural skulduggery outsourcing the knavery?


I hope that the Democratic presidential candidate has the brains and the grit to mention this scandal this autumn.

[Richardo]

2. Off subject: the Austin Am-Statesman registration process SUCKS...!

BRB after I read the article..

Thanks for posting, GOPisEvil...

[GOPisEvil]

5. Sorry about the registration.

That's relatively new. The nice part is that the page tends to remember you when you go back.

[Richardo]

4. Ooooooo I *know* the UP's bagman in Austin...

In a memo, Austin fund-raiser Susan Lilly, who was working for the committee, said Craddick distributed checks for the Union Pacific railroad's political action committee. Union Pacific sent $25,000 to 11 legislative candidates at the request of Texans for a Republican Majority.

According to e-mails between Lilly and Colyandro, Texans for a Republican Majority wanted to help distribute the railroad's money so it could get credit from the candidates for soliciting the donations.

Representatives with Union Pacific were not available for comment Monday.

I know where to find him... :evilgrin:

[GOPisEvil]

6. Heehee!

:evilgrin:

[sonias]

8. You can keep up with all the latest in TX repuke slime bag politics

at this web site http://cleanuptexaspolitics.org

There is a link to the story GOPisEvil has posted above. No registration required to read. It's a new blog brought to you by the fine people at Campaigns for People. You can catch up on past scandals, and you can wallow in the dark recesses of corporate/repuke government Fascism in Texas. Yee HAAAAW!!

Tom DeLay is a corporate whore, but he makes good money doing it.
:evilgrin:

Sonia