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CHARGES AGAINST DELAY

From the Houston Chronicle:

U.S. Rep. Chris Bell, D-Houston, accused House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Sugar Land on Tuesday of accepting a $20,000 contribution to one of his political action committees from Bacardi USA in exchange for pushing a bill that would benefit the liquor company.

The allegation is part of a wide-ranging ethics complaint that Bell, whose congressional district borders DeLay's, filed Tuesday. As first reported in Monday's Houston Chronicle, Bell is asking the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to investigate claims that DeLay, a Republican, engaged in extortion, bribery and abuse of power in separate incidents during the last two years.

Bell's decision to proceed against DeLay pushed a simmering Texas political feud onto center stage this week on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers for seven years have observed an unofficial truce in filing such complaints against each other.

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I'm all for Bell's attack at the Republican Party's own Lizard King (who thinks he can do anything), but I can't help but be a bit creeped out by this in your face reminder of how the Texas GOP has become so utterly influential throughout the rest of the country. Texas really sucks (okay, Texas is pretty great, too, but that's another story), and the people in charge here are only out for themselves and their buddies. Tom DeLay is simply one example of how evil Texas Republicans are.

This state is an inferno for liberals: good for Congressman Bell; "from Hell's heart, I stab at thee."

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