{"id":6788,"date":"2006-03-07T09:42:49","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T14:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6788"},"modified":"2006-03-07T09:42:49","modified_gmt":"2006-03-07T14:42:49","slug":"delay-helps-highlight-his-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/delay-helps-highlight-his-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"DeLay helps highlight his priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Voters in Tom DeLay’s district will vote today in a four-way Republican primary, the most serious primary challenge of DeLay’s career. The recently-indicted former House Majority Leader still has a solid base of far-right support, but his primary rivals have reminded voters repeatedly in recent months that DeLay has lost sight of responsibilities and has become far too cozy with powerful inside-the-beltway lobbyists.<\/p>\n

As if DeLay hopes to prove their point, the controversial lawmaker will spend tonight, as election results are announced, with the lobbyists<\/a> who financially support his efforts.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

DeLay faces three opponents in the Republican primary. For the first time in the 22 years he’s held office, he is up against a serious challenge after being forced out of his job as House majority leader amid corruption and campaign finance scandals.<\/p>\n

The fundraiser is being held by lobbyists Bill Paxon and Susan Molinari, both former members of Congress from New York. The event will raise money for DeLay’s re-election campaign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Attorney Tom Campbell, DeLay’s principal GOP rival, said, “I think it’s amazingly ironic and callous he would be spending election night with a group of lobbyists. I don’t think he understands how unhappy constituents are with what appears to be a trade of principle for power.”<\/p>\n

And the fact that this is making news the morning voters head to the polls is awfully convenient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Voters in Tom DeLay’s district will vote today in a four-way Republican primary, the most serious primary challenge of DeLay’s career. The recently-indicted former House Majority Leader still has a solid base of far-right support, but his primary rivals have reminded voters repeatedly in recent months that DeLay has lost sight of responsibilities and has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}