Remember this. A GRAND JURY indicted DeLay. Ronnie Earl did not.

[Maddy McCall]

Ronnie Earl presented the charges. A grand jury consisting of people of both parties indicted DeLay.

Does anyone know how many people were seated on this Grand Jury? I am sure people of both parties sit on it.

[VWolf]

1. I heard 12

[ComerPerro]

5. In that case, using Delays redistricting standards

that would amount to 11 Republicans, and 1 Democrat.

[VWolf]

12. LOL Good one!

[BigBearJohn]

2. I think we need to BROADCAST that very point! Excellent !!!!!

[BigBearJohn]

3. this is the PERFECT comeback to what Repukes are saying!!!

[Rainscents]

4. Yes, that is what we need to say... 12 Grand Jury Indicted Delay!

[goodhue]

6. yes, it bears repeating ad naseum

[Fleshdancer]

7. Damn that activist Grand Jury! Why do they hate America?

:rofl:

[Maddy McCall]

8. Please rec so that we can get this very important talking point out.

Thanks for the nominations already.

[savannahana]

9. excellent point, & duly nominated n/t

[H2O Man]

10. Nominated.

Very important point. It is far more damaging to Delay than he wants the public to realize.

[fooj]

13. You bet it is! He is in up to his eyeballs!!!

Peace.

[Inland]

11. Yes, a partisan vengeful democratic godless Grand Jury.

soon to be followed, no doubt, by a partisan vengeful judge and biased, hateful petit jury and a democratically inspired prison term.

[BigBearJohn]

14. HEY DU-ERS.. What can we do to get the word out?. This a great rebuttal!!

[Maddy McCall]

15. I sent it in to MSNBC Live on their email form below the poll.

[CrackpotAmerica]

16. Thanks For Posting This

IT's been on my mind all day and I wondered if anyone was going to bring it up.

Kudos to you Maddy!


:kick:

Nominated

[Maddy McCall]

17. Here's the MSNBC Live email link.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and send your comments.


http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3080261/

[BigBearJohn]

21. Thanks! I just emailed them!

[sonias]

18. Link to the Grand Jury indictment ( Yes a jury of his American peers)

IN THE NAME AND BY AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
THE GRAND JURY OF THE COUNTY OF TRAVIS, STATE OF TEXAS, duly selected, organized, sworn, and charged as such at the April term, A.D., 2005, of the 147th Judicial District Court of said county, in said court at said term, upon their oaths do present that on or about the thirteenth day of September, A.D., 2002, in the County of Travis and State of Texas,

JOHN DOMINICK COLYANDRO,
JAMES WALTER ELLIS, AND
THOMAS DALE DELAY,
the defendants herein, with the intent that a felony be committed, did enter into an agreement with one or more of each other or with a general purpose political committee known as Texans for a Republican Majority PAC that one or more of them would engage in conduct that would constitute the offense of knowingly making a political contribution in violation of Subchapter D of Chapter 253 of the Texas Election Code....

The full indictment in pdf format
http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/statesman/pdf/092805_delayindictment.pdf

And a nice little collection of the whole sordid story time-line.
Election finance investigation
http://www.statesman.com/metrostate/content/metro/elxpacs/index.html

Sonia

[Maddy McCall]

19. Thanks for posting this.

[Name removed]

20. Deleted message

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[karlrschneider]

22. Would make a good short note to Cafferty at

[e-mail]

K&N
edit: maybe not right now, he's asking about the Katrina Response, probably wouldn't read anything about Bugman...

[moondust]

23. So why didn't Tom accuse the grand jury of dirty partisan politics?

Is he afraid? :scared:

[Maddy McCall]

25. That was a slap in the face of every Texan.

I hope Texans realize that.

[moondust]

28. Damn right.

It sure doesn't show much respect for the justice system in Texas (or anywhere for that matter).

[Don Claybrook]

24. Yes, good point, but it doesn't matter what their talking points are

The GOP can (and will) talk until they're blue in the face about how unfair Ronnie Earl is and so on.

Let them explain it to the jury that will be seated to hear the charges against Tom DeLay.

So we're kind of at one of those "who cares what you think" moments. It doesn't matter now. It's up to a judge and a jury.

[yankeedem]

26. Why does everyone know Ronnie Earl's party affiliation

but only people that follow politics closely know that Ken Starr is a movement conservative closely allied with the NeoCon powerbase?

[spindoctor]

27. Kudos!

Excellent point, kick and nominated for OUR talking points :)

:kick:

[rateyes]

29. Hey, hey...

great minds do think alike!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2120520#2121118

:headbang: