Smearing Ronnie Earle: FUN Report from the trenches--

[elehhhhna]

October 12 - Okay, this is going to make your head hurt. The Free Enterprise Fund, an organization troubled by the fact that corporations don’t have enough say in government, are running an anti-Ronnie Earle media campaign in Austin.
Why Austin and not District 22 to help DeLay win re-election? Gee, I dunno. Maybe they’re trying to influence potential jurors?
If that doesn’t get your neurons synapsing fast enough to cause skid marks on your forehead, here’s the catcher – The Free Enterprise Fund won’t say how much they’re spending for the teevee ads or where they get their money. Maybe I’ve been sleeping for the past year, but isn’t this what got Tom in trouble in the first place?
My source tells me that the ad features Ronnie Earle as a Rottweiler. Yeah, in my dreams is Ronnie Earle a Rottweiler.
Irony is not dead where Tom DeLay is in charge.

http://www.brazosriver.com/

[melissinha]

1. I feel a LTTE coming on to the Statesman

I think I am going to compare Tom DeLay to Al Capone...... Al Capone was jailed not for the obvious heinous crimes but for not paying his taxes..... Tom DeLay is going down not for political gangster activities of gerrymandering and general bullying, but for disobeying Texas election laws.. Its beautiful isn't it?

Here it is:

If you can’t take the heat, don’t do the laundering. I would like to thank Ronnie Earle for putting off his retirement to serve the state in the case against Tom DeLay. It was tax evasion that nailed the coffin for gangster Al Capone, not his criminal gangster activities. Conspiring to circumvent Texas state campaign laws will be the undoing of political gangster Tom DeLay. Justice works in mysterious ways.

[orwell]

2. Wouldn't this constitute jury tampering? n/t

[tech3149]

3. brazosriver is on my weekly schedule

She's about as good as Molly Ivins at making the insanity of Texas politics entertaining.

[kentuck]

4. Couldn't that be considered interferring with a grand jury ?

It seems that would have to wait until the GJ was over - not in the middle of an investigation. It sounds criminal.