DeLay Quitting
Posted by
Kevin
Despite easily winning his primary, DeLay is apparently going to drop out of his re-election race. I have to think that this means jail is in his futre. One of his aids recently pled guilty crimes related to the Abramoff bribery scandals and implicated DeLay’s former chief of staff. That happened Friday. And now, DeLay is dropping out of the race. It is hard not to see the two events as connected.
As for what this means for the race, assuming the GOP can place a new name on the ballot, it probably lessons but not eliminates Democratic chances for picking up the seat. The district is not as Republican as it once was, and the GOP is not having a good year. Our candidate is running a determined race, and if the new candidate is connected to DeLay, that will help.
But even if this cost the Democrats a shot at his seat, it is still worth it. DeLay is an extremist with nothing in the way of decency restraining his pursuit of power. He built a machine the likes of which this country hasn’t seen since Tammany Hall (he was a prime mover behind the K-Street project, a plan to tie lobbyists to the GOP forever and ruled the House GOP by giving and withholding campaign money to members), but he did it on the national level and he did it in the service of an extremist agenda. The country is better off without him.
If Tom DeLay ran, he’d have lost.
Now the people of his district will elect another corporate whore, and America will lose.
Comment 4/3/2006
[…] Kevin of Lean Left writes even if this cost the Democrats a shot at his seat, it is still worth it. DeLay is an extremist with nothing in the way of decency restraining his pursuit of power. He built a machine the likes of which this country hasn’t seen since Tammany Hall (he was a prime mover behind the K-Street project, a plan to tie lobbyists to the GOP forever and ruled the House GOP by giving and withholding campaign money to members), but he did it on the national level and he did it in the service of an extremist agenda. The country is better off without him. […]
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[…] Kevin of Lean Left writes …even if this cost the Democrats a shot at his seat, it is still worth it. DeLay is an extremist with nothing in the way of decency restraining his pursuit of power. He built a machine the likes of which this country hasn’t seen since Tammany Hall (he was a prime mover behind the K-Street project, a plan to tie lobbyists to the GOP forever and ruled the House GOP by giving and withholding campaign money to members), but he did it on the national level and he did it in the service of an extremist agenda. The country is better off without him. […]
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