A grand jury in Texas indicted yesterday a state political action committee organized by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) for accepting $120,000 in allegedly illegal corporate campaign contributions shortly before and after the 2002 elections that helped Republicans cement their control of the House of Representatives.
… The funds paid for surveys, mailings, receptions, candidate investigations and probes of Democratic candidates that helped Republicans gain control of the Texas House for the first time in 130 years, and enabled them to redraw the state’s congressional districts in 2003 in such a way that Texas voters elected five more Republicans to Congress in 2004.
DeLay, who was a member of the committee’s advisory board, signed fundraising solicitations and participated in at least one conference call to discuss the committee’s plans, was not named in the indictment. He also has not been publicly identified as a target of the continuing investigation by Travis County District Attorney Ronald Earle.
Don’t you just love the way the man who is responsible for creating the PAC, the man who stood to benefit from it, the man who is on the board, the man who helped raise the funds, and is intimately involved in the plans… is still not named in an indictment?
One of many mysteries surrounding our so-called leaders.
