Delay's daughter? in a hot tub? with champagne poured down her back?

[CatWoman]

what the hell is going on???

Today's NYT feature highlights the gadzooks of money that Tom DeLay's daughter in particular has raked in through DeLay's connections. Atrios beat me to the archives for this gem, but I'll post it anyway:

The weekend included a late-night party Saturday in DeLay's suite at the Rio Hotel and Casino, which featured a living room, bar and hot tub on the balcony. DeLay was not present, aides said; the event was hosted by his daughter, Dani Ferro, the campaign manager for DeLay's reelection campaign. After the party, Ferro told associates that a lobbyist poured champagne on her while she was in the hot tub.

I think that a person has the right to have champagne poured on her by any person she admits in her hot tub, and your editors generally deem such behavior to be hott. But to say that it's at least eyebrow raising for the daugher of the House Majority Leader (then Majority Whip) to go all Paris Hilton on a crew of lobbyists during a paid Vegas vacation is an understatement, given that this is the least irreputable of the corruption charges that have been generated since that story broke way back in 2000, and DeLay has only increased the holdings of his Sugar Land crime syndicate in the intervening 5 years. In other words: How can it possibly have taken this long to nab him, and what transparency rules can we change to correct the structural problem at hand? It doesn't go away when DeLay does.

http://grammarpolice.net/mt/mt-tb.cgi/612

[Hello_Kitty]

1. I guess that's how $500K event planners do it

It's haaaard work promoting the agenda of the neo-con death cult :shrug:

[RBHam]

2. I miss all the good parties!

Who said repressed daughters of born again Christians don't have any fun!

I DEMAND VIDEO TAPE!@!!!@@!@!@!

[KansDem]

3. Me, too!

I guess my invitation got "lost in the mail."

[Montauk6]

4. I take it this wasn't the baby shower

[havocmom]

6. LOL, Champaign came before the baby shower

and who know what else
:rofl:

What I wanna know is, was it foreign or domestic? Freedom Champaign or was it that other stuff?

[pdx_prog]

5. I have to wonder if maybe....

there was a "falafel" involved....lol

[rodeodance]

7. see this DU thread from yesterday on the tub

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1708276&mesg_id=1708340

[Terran1212]

8. Great way to spend our money!

I think DeLay may finally be on his way out after this, but I'm hoping they don't replace him with someone worse.

[GOPisEvil]

9. I remember when she was in college.

She attended the same university as I did, albeit years later. I remember ol' Hot Tub Tom (what IS it with hot tubs and that family?) being shocked, SHOCKED! that there were coed dorms on that campus. Not co-ed FLOORS...just co-ed dorms. Men on one floor, women on another. He was also shocked that (gasp!) SEX went on...

[Old and In the Way]

10. It's an orgy of Republican Family Values.......

They'd make Caligula proud....

[Kansas Wyatt]

11. So is DeLay pimping his daughter out, or is his daughter prostituting...

For campaign cash for Roach, I mean DeLay?