For those who have nothing better to do--a timeline.
There used to be a time when legislators actually paid attention to newspaper reports to jump-start their investigations. Lately it seems their only interest is in making sure there's no follow-up and stories are buried on the back pages, never to see the light of day again.
Let's go back to November, 2000 and work our way forward through the DeLay cesspool (several of the synopses of articles and links were retrieved in chronological sequence from the archives at Democrats.com, where the editors have been tracking this career criminal's "progress" for years.
Nov 2000:
Delay Tries to Intimidate Supreme Court Judges to Fix Election Outcome
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/04/opinion/04RUSS.html?ex=1069390800&en=6b806e48e32ae34d&ei=5070
Nov 28 2000:
Tom Delay Finances Trip of 'Rioters' to Florida to Disrupt the Presidential Election Recount
Dec. 2000:
Washington Post Scrubs Photo of Florida Rioters that Shows Delays Staff
Here's the mirrorered version:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=politics/fedpage/columns/intheloop&contentId=A30170-2000Dec5¬Found=true
Feb 2001 (report on campaign 2000):
Delay's Daughter Launders $60,000 in Donations in 2000 for Daddy
http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/020701/opi_lawhnabs.shtml
January 2001:
Delay uses Corporate Slush Fund to Finance Ads Attacking Democrats Who Oppose Ashcroft's Nomination
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A9875-2001Jan17¬Found=true
April 12, 2001:
Delay Sells Meetings with Bush to Top GOP Donors
April 27 2001:
Delay Scam Targets Small Business Owners
May, 2001:
Tom Delay Brags That His Strategy Is To Kick People When they Are Down
June 2001:
Tom Delay Bilks Doctors in Boiler Room Scam
Phony 'Watchdog' Group Judicial Watch Looks Other Way as Delay Defrauds Public
July 2001:
Tom Delay, Former Exterminator, Wants to Allow Extensive and Undisclosed Use of Pesticides in Elementary Schools
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A16197-2001Jul18¬Found=true
July 2001:
Tom Delay Helps Hastert in Push to Block Patient's Bill of Rights
May, 2002:
: Media, Judicial Watch, and Congress Continue to Look other Way as Doctors are Preyed on By Delay Boiler Room Scam
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/nrcc_020502.html
January 2002:
Tom Delay Used Enron Money to Fund Political Racketeering
Feb. 2002:
Tom Delay Fights to Block Campaign Finance Reform
Feb. 2002:
Tom Delay Refuses to Return Money to Enron Employees
April 2002:
Delay Claims Only Christians Know what's best for Nation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A18077-2002Apr19¬Found=true
http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5518
May 16, 02:
Tom Delay Financial 'Godfather' Implicated in Mob Murder
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13134
Feb 2003:
Tom Delay Smears Firefights as "Threat to National Security"!!
May 2003:
Tom Delay Uses Homeland Security and State Police Resources to Terrorize Political Opponents
Reports Common Dreams: "State troopers have followed the Democrats wives, parents and children.
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0514-07.htm
June 2003:
Delay and 15 other GOP Congresscreeps Accused of Taking Bribes from Energy Corporation seeking favors
June, 2003:
Delay Blocks Efforts to Restore Tax Cuts to Poor Families left Out of Bush Plan
August 15, 2003:
Record Shows that Democratic Efforts to Upgrade Electrical Grid to Prevent Blackouts was Ridiculed and Blocked by DELAY
http://www.thedailyenron.com/documents/20030815132640-93614.asp
October, 2003:
Memo Is Smoking Gun Proof of Tom Delay's Collusion with Enron
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/10/14/enron/index_np.html
Oct. 13 2003:
Tom Delay Thumbs His Nose at the Will of 80% of Americans And Blocks Efforts to Overturn Hated FCC Corporate Giveaway
Oct. 2003:
Bush Cowers as Delay Guts the Americorps Program
http://www.time.com/time/columnist/klein/article/0,9565,476274,00.html
Nov. 22 03:
Thug Delay Steals Medicare From the Elderly by Threatening fellow Congressfolk
The final hall of shame vote:http://clerk.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.exe?year=2003&rollnumber=669 "Texas Democrats have subpoenaed House Majority Leader Tom DeLay as a witness in a lawsuit to overturn a congressional district map DeLay helped push through the Texas Legislature.
Nov. 2 03:
ow Tom Delay Engineered a Junta-style Takeover of the Texas Government
Nov. 2003:
Tom Delay Aggressively Promotes and Defends War Profiteering in Iraq
Posted by KevinSchmidtVA on September 29, 2005 at 11:27 AM
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