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Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Two more DeLay bagmen indicted

Not exactly the right term for the guys, but the gangster lingo seemed fitting.

Two associates of U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay were indicted Tuesday on additional felony charges of violating Texas election law and criminal conspiracy to violate election law for their role in the 2002 legislative races. (. . .)

The two men indicted Tuesday, Jim Ellis, who heads Americans for a Republican Majority, and John Colyandro, former executive director of Texans for a Republican Majority, already faced charges of money laundering in the case. Colyandro also faces 13 counts of unlawful acceptance of a corporate political contribution.

The money laundering charges stem from $190,000 in corporate funds that were sent to the Republican National Party, which then spent the same amount on seven candidates for the Texas Legislature.

This is what-- eleven indictments that implicate DeLay? And he's still the snap-on hair kingmaker of the GOP. Definitely the party of family values. Unfortunately, the family is the Corleones. (Rimshot)