Subpoenas aim to find DeLay role with PAC

From the Houston Chronicle:

John Colyandro, director of the fundraising committee commonly referred to as TRMPAC, was subpoenaed to appear last month and bring "all documents concerning TRMPAC's past, present or intended relationship with Tom DeLay." Colyandro has said that all of TRMPAC's activities were legal.

Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle is investigating whether TRMPAC violated state law in using corporate funds to help 21 Republicans win Texas House seats in 2002, giving the GOP a House majority for the first time since Reconstruction.

DeLay, speaking to reporters in Washington this week, lashed out at Earle, who he said was trying to "criminalize politics."

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"Being called partisan and vindictive by Tom DeLay is like being called ugly by a frog," Earle said.

State law allows political action committees to use corporate funds for administrative expenses such as utilities or accounting fees, but it is a third-degree felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, to use corporate money for direct political activities.

And being called ugly by Tom DeLay is also like being called ugly by a frog.

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