Tom DeLay, the Republican Party's chief crook in Congress, may be out of his job as Majority Leader while he fights multiple indictments for criminal activity, but his replacement is just as shady when it comes to deals.
As the Associated Press reports today:
Tom DeLay deliberately raised more money than he needed to throw parties at the 2000 presidential convention, then diverted some of the excess to longtime ally Roy Blunt through a series of donations that benefited both men's causes.When the financial carousel stopped, DeLay's private charity, the consulting firm that employed DeLay's wife and the Missouri campaign of Blunt's son all ended up with money, according to campaign documents reviewed by The Associated Press.
Blount is the interim House Majority Leader. Replacing one crook with another won't solve any of the Republicans' many ethical problems. It just shows how corrupt the party of the elephant really is.
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