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Friday, August 12, 2005

"As Abramoff, So DeLay"

Shallow Larynx reminds me to follow the money, and this is the result:

The Federal Election Commission criticized a political fund chaired by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) for misstating accounts and failing to report debts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The watchdog agency issued its findings after auditing DeLay's Americans for a Republican Majority PAC (ARMPAC) for 2001 and 2002. ARMPAC is one of a growing number of "leadership" PACs, through which members of Congress provide financing and electoral assistance to other candidates for office.

I sure hope that the DNC is printing out extra copies of the DC fundraiser held in support of Tom DeLay a few months ago. Some GOP luminaries were shrewd enough to stay away from Toxic Tom's gala event. Most couldn't have passed it they wanted to DeLay has been a party kingmaker for quite some time now, and has plenty of 'em by the short hairs.