DeLay’s Pay For Play

3:01 pm EST January 10th, 2006 | Politics | 1 Comment

Yeah, I think we figured out why DeLay decided to bow out when Abramoff copped his plea

Former House Majority Leader
Tom DeLay tried to pressure the Bush administration into shutting down an Indian-owned casino that lobbyist Jack Abramoff wanted closed  shortly after a tribal client of Abramoff’s donated to a DeLay political action committee, The Associated Press has learned.

The Texas Republican demanded closure of the casino, owned by the Alabama-Coushatta tribe of Texas, in a Dec. 11, 2001 letter to then-Attorney General
John Ashcroft. The Associated Press obtained the letter from a source who did not want to be identified because of an ongoing federal investigation of Abramoff and members of Congress.

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One Response to “DeLay’s Pay For Play”

  1. Semanticleo says:
    January 10, 2006 at 6:01 pm

    Russert did not even ask Cornyn about this (Sessions connected as well)
    on last Sunday’s Press the Meat.

    That’s that danged ol’ librul media for
    yuh!

    This tangled mass of people and money could be chock full of
    those pesky ‘quid pro quos’.