Reply #8: This will be the larger story, IMHO.

[seafan]

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The larger legal challenge for DeLay may center on a task force led by the U.S. Justice Department that's investigating Jack Abramoff, the indicted lobbyist who boasted of his relationship with DeLay.

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Delay, 58, who stepped down temporarily as House majority leader after being indicted, once called Abramoff ``one of my closest and dearest friends.'' He has traveled to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, an Abramoff client, on trips organized by Abramoff's law firm and has blocked efforts to apply U.S. minimum wage and labor laws to the commonwealth.




IMHO, this facet of DeLay wrongdoing will FAR outweigh his troubles in Texas...

In a nutshell, Tom DeLay's dealings with the business owners in the Northern Marianas Islands clearly show that he took money from these foreign business owners in return for his position in Congress to influence legislation that would allow these business owners to avoid labor standards for their impoverished women employees.

Tom DeLay sold his powerful influence in Congress to FOREIGNERS.

Treason.