Thursday, February 16, 2006
DeLay Keeps in Touch With His Constituents
Good lawmakers make a practice of keeping in touch with the folks back home, their constituents.
Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) has sent an eight-page handwritten letter to constituents, asking for their vote in his upcoming primary election and defending his dealings with former lobbyist Jack Abramoff.The letter, dated Feb. 6, was sent to thousands of potential Republican voters. It asserted that DeLay's indictment by a state grand jury on charges related to campaign funding "was about partisan politics . . . plain and simple" and that the conspiracy alleged "never occurred."
Those nefarious "conspiracy theorists" are always trying to wreck things for the rest of us.
DeLay said trips he took with Abramoff between 1997 and 2000 to Russia, the Northern Mariana Islands and the United Kingdom were proper, and said they had a "common thread" -- they were about "exporting the principles of American free enterprise, religious freedom and democracy."
I'm not entirely sure that Tom DeLay is the best emissary of American values to be sending anywhere, let alone overseas.
