{"id":7042,"date":"2006-04-04T09:42:38","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T13:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7042"},"modified":"2006-04-04T09:42:38","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T13:42:38","slug":"delays-been-a-busy-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/delays-been-a-busy-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"DeLay’s been a busy boy"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a relatively minor point, but I’ve seen several<\/a> news<\/a> outlets note today that [tag]Tom DeLay[\/tag] has been rebuked “three times” by the House Ethics Committee for improper conduct. That’s just not so.<\/p>\n

Tom [tag]DeLay[\/tag] has been [tag]admonish[\/tag]ed by the House [tag]Ethics[\/tag] Committee five times<\/i>, not including other instances in which he was investigated but not punished.<\/p>\n

* In 1997, the [tag]Ethics Committee[\/tag] [tag]rebuke[\/tag]d DeLay, warning him that his fundraising pitches created the impression that campaign contributions would bring “official action or access<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

* In 1999, the Ethics Committee [tag]chastise[\/tag]d DeLay for threatening a Washington trade association<\/a>, the Electronic Industries Alliance, with retaliation for hiring a Democrat as its president. The House was poised to consider implementation of an international treaty the trade association had requested, but DeLay used his influence to scuttle the treaty — just to show the EIA who’s boss.<\/p>\n

* In 2004, the Ethics Committee admonished DeLay for offering a political favor to then-Rep. Nick Smith (R-Mich.) in exchange for his vote<\/a> on Bush’s Medicare bill. It’s a violation of House rules for a member to “offer or link support for the personal interests of another member as part of a quid pro quo to achieve a legislative goal.”<\/p>\n

* A week later, the Ethics Committee rebuked DeLay twice in one day<\/i><\/a>, one for his role in misusing the FAA for partisan purposes and another for staging a fundraising event in a way that appeared to link access to him with political donations.<\/p>\n

This not only fails to include the investigations that didn’t pursue due to lack of evidence, it also doesn’t include the ongoing<\/i> investigation into DeLay’s Abramoff-financed golf trip, which may end now that DeLay is going to resign in disgrace.<\/p>\n

And these, of course, are just the ethics<\/em> violations, unrelated to DeLay’s criminal indictments in Texas and the corruption probe that is still underway on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n

In this case, DeLay’s reputation is bad, but his actual record is worse. He won’t be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a relatively minor point, but I’ve seen several news outlets note today that [tag]Tom DeLay[\/tag] has been rebuked “three times” by the House Ethics Committee for improper conduct. That’s just not so. Tom [tag]DeLay[\/tag] has been [tag]admonish[\/tag]ed by the House [tag]Ethics[\/tag] Committee five times, not including other instances in which he was investigated but […]<\/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-7042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042","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=7042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}