DENTON: Flower Mound: kick mary Denny in the butt......

[chomskysright]

U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay masterminded a plan to change congressional district lines in Texas to add to his majority in Congress. This brazen powerplay involved raising hundreds of thousands of dollars from corporations in order to influence the outcome of state legislative races in Texas -- an alleged violation of state campaign finance laws.

Already, Travis County DA Ronnie Earle's investigation has led to the indictment of three DeLay associates and eight corporations for their roles in laundering corporate funds into state races. Then, because it is speculated that DeLay is a subject of the investigation, Republicans in Congress tried to protect him with a secret vote in November, 2004. What became known as the "DeLay Rule" would have allowed DeLay to maintain his post even if he was indicted. It was defeated by citizen pressure in early January. But we knew the DeLay Rule was the first, not the last, effort by DeLay to get out from under Earle's investigation.

We were right. Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick's lieutenant State Rep. Mary Denny -- herself a beneficiary of DeLay PAC money -- introduced the Politician Protection Act in early February. If passed, it would stop Earle's investigation. Denny's bill is the second try to get DeLay off the hook. Again, it probably won't be the last.

The Earle investigation has national implications because it involves Tom DeLay, hundreds of thousands of dollars in corporate contributions, and DeLay's brazen powerplay to gerrymander congressional districts in Texas to suit his political purposes. No one should be above the law.

[GetTheRightVote]

1. Where's her number, I will call her and let her know we are watching

to see what else she does, and her political career is at risk behind her dealing with this lier, Delay.

:kick:

[liveoaktx]

2. Here's more from DriveDemocracy

http://www.drivedemocracy.org/blog/index.php?p=207

Is Mary Denney a fool or does she think citizens in Texas are?

"Rep. Mary Denny, R-Aubrey, said her bill is being misinterpreted. She intends to encourage local law enforcement to pursue the constable or justice of the peace who repeatedly fails to do things such as file open government paperwork, she said.

“It doesn’t have anything to do with Ronnie Earle,” Ms. Denny said.

Ms. Denny said her bill was not designed to stop any investigation. “If we find out that that’s what has happened, that’s not the intent of the bill, and we can fix it,” she said.

Under the bill, county or district attorneys could not conduct an investigation on their own initiative. He or she would present the case to the Texas Ethics Commission, which would study election laws and determine whether a crime has been committed.

If the Ethics Commission did not recommend criminal charges, “a prosecuting attorney may not prosecute a person for the alleged violation,” according to the bill.
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RIGHT!~