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Tom DeLay: Stranger in his own District

Have you noticed all of the Congressmen and Congresswomen who are holding Town Hall meetings in their Districts to discuss Social Security Reform? The Bay Area New Democrats has issued a call asking...

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Nasa cuts? Let's do what the Greeks did to the bearer of bad news

Under the heading of 'Watch what they do not what they say", pay attention to what is happening at NASA. While Tom DeLay is trying to curry political capital by trumpeting his role as savior of NASA...

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DeLay Decides to meet his constituents

The Washington Post seems to have picked up one of Tom DeLay's Press Releases and reports that he plans to act like a representative of the people. Last year the local Congressmen and Women who...

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Hold the Phones: Republicans want DeLay out?

A Republican resident of Fort Bend County (where Tom DeLay lives), just sent me a post through the http://www.dist22pf.org/ web site to vent the views of a group of Texas District 22 Republicans over...

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Tom DeLay is in the News

The coverage of Tom DeLay last night by Leslie Stahl of CBS 60 Minutes focused upon the sly way that the people who stand with Tom DeLay try to assume that the laws that apply to the rest of us do not...

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Here they come. Cuts at NASA

As always it is hard to sift information from the chaff we get in the press releases but this article in the Houston Chronicle has an aroma that suggests that the budget funding for NASA that has been...

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And what does this mean? Is he slipping?

At the bottom of a Chronicle Story about how we are getting more highway money (which apparently is instead of mass transit money), there is just a little comment about how the provision that Tom DeLay...

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Can you say CACAPHONY? What happens in Brazoria Plays in Peoria

To the 10,000 people who gave money last year to oppose Tom DeLay your money was well spent. Keep it up. Just because you don't live in his District does not mean that your finacial "vote" did not send...

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Calls for Resignation become louder

The Public Campaign Action Fund has ramped up the drumbeat for removal of Tom DeLay as a blight on our National scene. Today they call for his resignation listing 10 reasons why he has violated the...

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Beltway Banditos Just Wanna Have Fun?

In 2004 an unkown political neophyte nearly toppled a giant here by running an old fashioned I am a nice guy and he isn't campaign. He spoke to issues that mattered to people and the people loved it....

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A Stealth Open House

Tom DeLay tends to shy away from announcing public events in his own District. The extent of the protests against him when it is known that he will be in town (which is not often) mar his image as one...

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A Stealth Open House Chapter II

Since he took a lease on office space in the new part of his gerrymandered District Tom DeLay avoided announcing that the place was open for business. For weeks I have heard of people calling the...

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Power Corrupts: Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

For purely partisan reasons Tom DeLay sought to depose a sitting President: Bill Clinton. His effort failed and he left a trail of devastation from all of his cohorts, none of whom should not have been...

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DeLay not interested in improving education

Go to the Houston Democratic party site and look at the video of Tom DeLay at the Clear Lake Debate in October of last year. After calling teachers' side job social security benefits a needless...

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Tex 22 Republicans against DeLay

The Forum has been contacted several times by Republicans from the District and by some National Republican interests about the dissatisfaction that many mainstream Repbublicans feel about how Tom...

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A confluence of forces

Off the Kuff reports on a visit from esteemed elder statesman of the Republican party, Pete McCloskey. Pete and a group of senior Republicans recently wrote to Speaker of the House, Denny Hastert...

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Sitting in Traffic? Thank Tom DeLay

The first of the issue focused media opportunities of the District 22 Political Forum has hit the streets. The 'Sitting in Traffic' campaign has been rolled out in the form of bumper stickers that can...

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Sitting in Traffic? Thank Tom DeLay 

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DeLay really Nails Teachers when it comes to Social Security

Everyone knows that there is a storm brewing over Social Security. As Tom DeLay and his "conservative movement" try to take benefits from working people by the "starve the beast" ideology, few people...

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Bumper Sticker for our Schools 

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More numbers to crunch

The Forum has always noted that Mike FJetland, who ran as a Republican in primaries against Tom DeLay in 2000 and 2002 got 16% of the Republican vote in his first outing, and 20% in the second effort....

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This race is one of the most competitive in Nation

Dr. Richard Murray of the University of Houston pointed the Forum to the recent rating by the University of Virginia Center for Politics which lists the Congressional race in the Texas 22nd district as...

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As pieces fall into place Mordred can see the room of the Round Table

Today in Austin State District Judge Joe Hart decided as a matter of law, after trial, that Tom DeLay's co-conspirators acted in violation of law when they illegally took huge amounts of Corporate...

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DeLay calls Sweatshop squalor a "Glowing example of a Free Market Success"

When Tom DeLay got his ride on Air Force One with the President he had just finished another denial that he is protecting sweatshop operators in the Northern Mariana Islands. Even after an ABC News...

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DeLay blinks on traffic issue: Or does he?

With all of the modesty that may be due the circumstance the Forum notes that barely 4 weeks after it launched its bumper sticker campaign, regarding Tom DeLay’s refusal to allow funding for Houston’s...

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