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Tom DeLay's Miscellaneous Machinations
(Stephen Pizzo, Alternet.org, May 16, 2002)
After the GOP's 1994 seizure of power in Congress, DeLay launched his "Project Relief" -- a coalition of 350 corporations, including Enron, that drafted a bill to gut regulations affecting industry. No lobbyist benefited more during this time than DeLay's brother, Randy DeLay. . . . A number of big firms and trade associations promptly began to hire Randy as a lobbyist, even though he had no previous experience. A Houston Press report indicates that between 1995 and mid-1997, Randy DeLay earned $750,000 in fees and expenses. Press accounts of Randy DeLay's sudden good fortune came at the very time that his brother was pontificating on alleged Clinton family conflicts of interest. . . . As mentioned earlier in this report, much of Tom DeLay's political clout flows from his control of PAC money. The National Republican Congressional Committee and, in particular, DeLay's mother-of-all-PACs, the Americans for a Republican Majority (ARMPAC), have raked in millions of dollars that DeLay parcels out to Republican politicians who vote his way. . . . DeLay's politics make Newt Gingrich look like a liberal. He is so out of the mainstream he has even become a thorn in the side of Republican President and fellow Texan, George Bush, recently telling reporters during sensitive Middle East negotiations that Palestinians should be chased out of the West Bank and sent off to live in Jordan.

posted by LoZo 8:58 PM