Filed at 5:30 pm, Sunday April 02nd 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Ahahaha, I’m beginning to notice a pattern here. Top Republicans don’t use email. Secretary of “Defense” Donald Rumsfeld doesn’t, neither does Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. And apparently, Tom DeLay doesn’t either. This is amongst the revelations that are coming from the press after former DeLay aide Tony Rudy pled guilty. TalkLeft wonders if DeLay […]
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Filed at 7:30 pm, Saturday April 01st 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Carpetbagger makes a great point about Tom DeLay. While it’s not saying that association means guilt, it shows several connections that should raise eyebrows when put together. A good look at the ‘larger picture’ of who Tommy’s friends are. Go check it out.
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Filed at 6:30 pm, Sunday March 26th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
I don’t know if you’re familiar with PostSecret. Technorati lists it as the 3rd most popular blog on the net. The idea is that each week hundreds of people send in their secrets artistically on a postcard, and each Sunday curator Frank posts the best of them. It’s really quite neat, and is growing in […]
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Filed at 3:30 pm, Sunday March 26th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
I know that everybody is/will be talking about Washington Post’s latest Abramoff-DeLay article today, and with good reason. The first sentences should explain why:
A top adviser to former House Whip Tom DeLay received more than a third of all the money collected by the U.S. Family Network, a nonprofit organization the adviser created to promote […]
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Filed at 3:30 pm, Tuesday March 07th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Okay, so it isn’t a single you. It’s plural. A group of yous. Lobbyists. Okay, so I kind of stretched to make that title. Associated Press:
Rep. Tom DeLay, whose association with lobbyist Jack Abramoff has left him politically vulnerable, is spending Texas’ primary night Tuesday at a fundraiser hosted by two Washington lobbyists.
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The fundraiser is […]
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Filed at 9:30 am, Tuesday March 07th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Coming out on May 9th: The Big Buy: How Tom DeLay Stole Congress
Okay, I’m a documentary film major. But this looks really good. Check out their teaser trailer (Quicktime, WMV, ultra-high quality.MPG). More info here.
Hat tip, TPM.
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Filed at 10:32 pm, Wednesday January 25th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
A little while ago, you might remember that I wrote about how crooked Republican former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay/crybaby was trying to stop television stations from airing negative ads directed towards him- by threatening to sue them. This is what us grownups call coercion of the media. But that aside, three Houston area television […]
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Filed at 8:17 pm, Monday January 23rd 2006
by Arlen Parsa
WaPo:
The Justice Department’s voting section, a small and usually obscure unit that enforces the Voting Rights Act and other federal election laws, has been thrust into the center of a growing debate over recent departures and controversial decisions in the Civil Rights Division as a whole.
Many current and former lawyers in the section charge that […]
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Filed at 9:30 pm, Sunday January 22nd 2006
by Arlen Parsa
On the heels of this post, The Hill has this about the newly vacant seat on the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee:
In a sign of just how far Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) has fallen, the once-powerful, hard-charging GOP leader is facing new questions over whether he could win the seat on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee […]
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Filed at 2:02 pm, Saturday January 21st 2006
by Arlen Parsa
There’s an interesting diary over at DailyKos which discusses the GOP Abramoff connection to a powerful sweatshop overlord (the Tan family) to China. Twice-indicted former House Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay also (not surprisingly) makes an appearence as well. Teaser:
Over the last decade, the Tan family and their companies have spent at least US$200,000 (HK$1.6 […]
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Filed at 2:41 pm, Friday January 20th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Puns aside, remember Republican Representative Cunningham who pled guilty to bribery charges recently? There was talk about “bigger fish to fry” at the time, and plenty of speculation as to who those fish were. Well it seems as though DeLay’s prosecutors are doing some fishing of their own:
PerfectWave Technologies, a San Diego-area firm, gave DeLay’s […]
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Filed at 11:20 am, Thursday January 19th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Either a certain Democratic House Representative from New York named Louise Slaughter (whom I respect greatly– she’s been doing great work, and respects the importance of blogs quite a bit) just made a really dumb mistake, or there’s a whole other dimmension to the DeLay Scandal. And I don’t think it’s the first one. We’ll […]
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Filed at 4:46 pm, Tuesday January 17th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
I’m tempted to call this book the progressive manual for 2006. It’s that good.
I’ve been blogging about the Abramoff Lobbying Scandal a lot lately. One of the resources I’ve recommended several times to help understand the scandal is a recently published book by Al Franken called “The Truth (With Jokes).” Besides being a pretty funny […]
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Filed at 12:00 pm, Friday January 13th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Recently, I wrote about how Republican Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas (who will soon be on trial for campaign finance and corruption charges) was trying to coerce TV stations into not airing negative advertisements directed towards him (links to ad videos were included). Shortly after that, I had an update to offer, […]
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Filed at 6:28 pm, Thursday January 12th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Two races of note that we’ll be following closely throughout this midterm election year are those of Republican House Representative and Former Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas (who of course will be facing corruption charges in a Texas court soon), and Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut (a favorite Democrat of the White House, […]
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