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By Jeff Fecke | May 23, 2003
But of course, if he filed a false report, that would be a crime, and he’d have to be impeached, because….
I’ve neglected posting about the Democratic walkout in Texas because I’m a Minnesotan, and had little relevant to say. It’s a cheap trick (although a similar cheap trick kept the capital of Minnesota in St. Paul; it’s a part of the legislative process as old as parliamentary procedure.) But of course, trying to re-redistrict after districts have already been settled is also a cheap trick, so both sides are unclean in this case. Had that been the end of it, the GOP probably would have scored a few points and that would be that.
But as Joshua Micah Marshall reports, this is now starting to become something bigger, thanks to the pig-headed incompetence of the Texas GOP. Indeed, this may be becoming a criminal matter. What wild-eyed lefty says that? Tom Ridge.
The person with his ass in a sling is House Majority Leader Tom “The Hammer” DeLay (R-TX), at whose behest the Texas GOP tried to re-redistrict, and who apparently started the whole chain of events that led to Texas law enforcement deliberately misleading the Department of Homeland Security in an effort to locate wayward Democratic legislators. The saga has led to destruction of all documents related to the request by the Texas Department of Public Safety (ostensibly due to federal regulations that don’t seem to say what DPS says they say), a Class A Misdemeanor under Texas law.
Of couse, Tom DeLay was a chief moralizer during Fornigate; it will be interesting to see if the law will be turned on DeLay himself. After all, he has violated the public trust, and may even have lied(!) to the public. But of course, I’m sure the standards he’s judged by will be exactly the same as a certain former President.
Right.
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