DeLay

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aha: he is the source of many evil spawn? some sort of transition pt in GOP? gerry, cut corrupt

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main lost, recover from 718 see bak

dem docket delay OG tx midterm redist ok’d by tx scotus? sued Delay for racketeering

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| June 5, 2024

Ben Johnson of The Washington Stand exposes “The Spiritual Warfare Behind the Trump Conviction.”
In a shocking development, Christian nationalist Jerry Newcombe did not like “Bad Faith,” the documentary about the dangers of Christian nationalism.
Randall Terry’s quixotic presidential campaign has scored the endorsement of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
Gene Bailey, host of the “FlashPoint” program, says that “nobody is going to give it to you 100 percent straight, besides us.”
Finally, religious-right activists insist that former President Donald Trump has a deep Christian faith, yet whenever he is asked about it, he inevitably responds by talking about how much evangelicals love him and rambling on incessantly.

blast from the past/ roots?

Tom Delay: "biblical worldview" ( RFK 30) TDelay: DDT

as safe as aspirin", ~ESA; Columbine because schools teach evolution.

1/95 Delay?) invites 350 lobbyists to dismantle regs 30 learned from Watt

disaster PR, so plant tree foto op and used free mkt rhet to hide; Luntz

did PR (wrote Contract for Am[Armey?]) snuck riders on key bills, "supermandate"

regulatory reform, ~ unfunded mandates etc but PIRG etc caught them, 1

mil signatires, so moderate gop opposed; after gov't shutdown Newt lost public

support. TD: “we lost the debate on the environment" (how?)

DeLay signs first lobbying clients in years

By THEODORIC MEYER 06/06/2017 02:57 PM EDT

With David Beavers and Aubree Eliza Weaver

TOM DeLAY WILL LOBBY ON HEALTH CARE: Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has returned to lobbying, nearly four years after shedding his last lobbying client. DeLay’s firm, First Principles, has registered to lobby for the HAPPE Corporation, a firm based in rural Coolin, Idaho, not far from the Canadian border, that has never hired a lobbyist before. Its business is listed as “Health care partnerships” on the disclosure form. DeLay will lobby on the American Health Care Act as the Senate takes up the bill. The firm is DeLay’s first lobbying client since he stopped lobbying for Argus Global in 2013. The former Texas congressman, of course, resigned in 2006 after getting caught up in the Jack Abramoff scandal. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Tax lobbying keeps on giving - POLITICO

https://www.politico.com/.../2017/.../tax-lobbying-keeps-on-giving-05442...

Dec 15, 2017 - Tom DeLay's mystery lobbying — Teva will shut D.C. office. ... The registration was filed on Wednesday but took effect on Nov. ... bill for something called the HAPPE Corporationthrough his firm, First Principles LLC, according ...

The DeLay Scandal Turns Six - The Texas Observer

https://www.texasobserver.org/2896-the-delay-scandal-turns-six-catching-u...

Nov 14, 2008 - One is the consulting firm First Principles LLC. While corporate clients may be flocking to the firm, political campaigns don't appear to be buying ...

Tom DeLay Registers to Lobby on Sex-Trafficking Issues - Roll Call

https://www.rollcall.com/.../tom_delay_registers_to_lobby_on_sex_traffick...

Aug 14, 2012- Tom DeLay has officially made the jump to lobbyist. ... media and public relations firm on recent lobbying registration forms filed with the House and Senate. ... firm First Principles after leaving Congress, Argus Global is his first ...

Return of The Hammer? - OpenSecrets News

Former Rep. Tom DeLay has officially made the jump to lobbyist.

The Texas Republican in late July filed paperwork to lobby for Argus Global LLC on sex-trafficking issues, according to records tracked by the website Political MoneyLine.

New York City-based Argus Global is described as an investment, media and public relations firm on recent lobbying registration forms filed with the House and Senate.

Though the former House Majority Leader formed the political consulting firm First Principles after leaving Congress, Argus Global is his first "and probably only" lobbying client, DeLay said in a phone interview.

"I didn't want to register as a lobbyist, but I felt like since I was talking to Members of Congress and their staff, I would cover my bases and register to make sure everything was ethical and up front," DeLay told Roll Call.

DeLay says his client is interested in the issue of sex trafficking generally and specifically the prosecution of Joris Demmink, a Dutch civil servant who has worked at the Netherlands' Ministry of Security and Justice.

Human rights organizations have criticized a perceived lack of interest in investigating Demmink's alleged involvement in child abuse and sex trafficking. Just last week, GOP Reps. Joseph Pitts (Pa.), Frank Wolf (Va.) and Chris Smith (N.J.) sent a letter to the European Union's Christian Ehler urging that Demmink be the focus of the next interparliamentary meeting.

"We write to you out of concern for the integrity of the European Union's ongoing efforts to combat the sexual exploitation of children and child pornography," the Congressmen wrote.

Though this his first lobbying client, DeLay is no stranger to Washington's influence industry.

He was the recipient of frequent gifts, trips and political donations from Jack Abramoff, the Republican lobbyist at the heart of a wide-ranging corruption investigation that ensnared many of Abramoff's associates and two of DeLay's aides. Abramoff pled guilty to three counts of conspiracy, fraud and tax evasion in 2006.

DeLay resigned from Congress the same year after his own corruption scandal. He received a three-year sentence last year for participating in a money-laundering scheme and is out on bail pending appeal.

Argus Global in June also brought on Winning Strategies Washington and Squire, Sanders & Dempsey to work on related sex-trafficking issues.

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2013/09/return-of-the-hammer/

Sep 21, 2013 - Yes, that was former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) ... That's a bit muddy, but DeLay has in fact moved on: He's now a registered lobbyist. ... Since August 2012, Argus has paid his firm, First Principles, about ...

Yes, that was former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) cruising the halls of Congress Thursday looking jubilant.

DeLay’s visit to Capitol Hill was previously planned, but the news that a Texas appeals court had overturned his money-laundering conviction turned it into something of a victory lap. Republican House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), whose rise to power was partly enabled by the downfall of The Hammer, might have felt more ambivalent.

Will DeLay try for a comeback? He told the Washington Post that when it comes to politics he “never left it,” but now “There’s too much other things that the Lord wants me to do. But around the political arena, I’m around. They never got rid of me.”

That’s a bit muddy, but DeLay has in fact moved on: He’s now a registered lobbyist. However, unlike many of his former colleagues who turn to K Street to cash in after long careers accumulating power in Congress, DeLay is specializing in lobbying on a less lucrative issue — human trafficking. Whether it’s by choice or because corporate clients don’t exactly flock to hire ex-lawmakers with criminal convictions hanging over them, DeLay has represented only one client, Argus International, since he first registered last year. Argus is a security contractor whose top executives are heavily involved with efforts to stop human trafficking and the international sex trade (the company’s CEO for instance, is on the board of a small faith-based anti-human trafficking nonprofit). All of the lobbying reports DeLay has filed have listed only human trafficking and the sex trade as his issues.

Since August 2012, Argus has paid his firm, First Principles, about $130,000.

The Travis County, Texas, district attorney’s office, which won its case against DeLay in 2010, has said it will appeal this week’s decision.

During his rise to power in Congress, DeLay accumulated a lengthy list of financial supporters, many of whom are familiar to today’s GOP leadership. But times have also changed.

According to Center for Responsive Politics data, DeLay’s single largest source of campaign contributions over the years was AT&T: The company’s PAC gave him more than $153,000 and individuals employed by the telecom giant chipped in another $6,000. AT&T is still a big deal in Washington, but DeLay’s second biggest cash source — tobacco maker Reynolds American— has taken a tumble.

In 2006, DeLay’s last year in office, the Reynolds PAC handed out $1,081,000 in donations to federal candidates — 87 percent of which went to Republicans. In the 2012 cycle, the PAC gave out just $537,000.

DeLay’s eighth biggest source of support was Enron, whose executives contributed more than $68,000 over the years. Enron’s PAC gave another $29,000. Obviously, that cash spigot ran dry long ago; Enron was laid to rest in the early aughts by a massive case of corporate fraud.

One of the biggest individual donor to DeLay’s campaigns was Texas construction magnate Bob Perry, who combined with his wife to give DeLay and his leadership PAC $74,500 over the years. In 2012, Perry and his wife gave $23.4 million to conservative super PACs, making him the third-largest funder of outside groups. But Perry died earlier this year — though not before giving some final political donations.

See a complete list of DeLay’s all-time biggest donors below.

Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay signs lobbying deal with ...

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Jun 7, 2017 - After a four year break, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R) is returning to lobbying after signing a contract to represent Coolin, ...

DeLay signs first lobbying clients in years

By THEODORIC MEYER

06/06/2017 02:57 PM EDT

With David Beavers and Aubree Eliza Weaver

TOM DeLAY WILL LOBBY ON HEALTH CARE: Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has returned to lobbying, nearly four years after shedding his last lobbying client. DeLay’s firm,First Principles, has registered to lobby for the HAPPE Corporation, a firm based in rural Coolin, Idaho, not far from the Canadian border, that has never hired a lobbyist before. Its business is listed as “Health care partnerships” on the disclosure form. DeLay will lobby on the American Health Care Act as the Senate takes up the bill. The firm is DeLay’s first lobbying client since he stopped lobbying for Argus Globalin 2013. The former Texas congressman, of course, resigned in 2006 after getting caught up in the Jack Abramoffscandal. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Tax lobbying keeps on giving - POLITICO

https://www.politico.com/.../2017/.../tax-lobbying-keeps-on-giving-05442...

The DeLay Scandal Turns Six - The Texas Observer

https://www.texasobserver.org/2896-the-delay-scandal-turns-six-catching-u...

Nov 14, 2008 - One is the consulting firm First Principles LLC. While corporate clients may be flocking to the firm, political campaigns don't appear to be buying ...

Tom DeLay Registers to Lobby on Sex-Trafficking Issues - Roll Call

https://www.rollcall.com/.../tom_delay_registers_to_lobby_on_sex_traffick...

Aug 14, 2012 - Tom DeLay has officially made the jump to lobbyist. ... media and public relations firm on recent lobbying registration forms filed with the House and Senate. ... firm First Principles after leaving Congress, Argus Global is his first ...

Return of The Hammer? - OpenSecrets News

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2013/09/return-of-the-hammer/

Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay signs lobbying deal with ...

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/.../senate-plans-june-13-hearing-on...

Jun 7, 2017 - After a four year break, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R) is returning to lobbying after signing a contract to represent Coolin, ...

sentenced for 3 yrs

Austin, Texas (CNN) -- A Texas jury on Wednesday convicted former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on charges of illegally funneling corporate money to help elect GOP candidates to the Texas Legislature.

DeLay was found guilty ofmoney laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering, court bailiff Gilbert Soto said. He was accused of funneling $190,000 to help elect Republicans to the state House and Senate in 2002.

At the outset of the trial, DeLay predicted the jury would clear him, and he remained unrepentant after learning the verdict.

"This is an abuse of power. It's a miscarriage of justice," DeLay told reporters. "I still maintain that I am innocent, that the criminalization of politics undermines our very system, and I'm very disappointed in the outcome. But you know, it is what it is, and we will carry on and maybe we can get it before people who understand the law."

Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg said the verdict showed no one was above the law.

"This case is a message from the citizens of the state of Texas that the public officials they elect to represent them must do so honestly and ethically, and if not they'll be held accountable," Lehmberg said.

DeLay's sentencing was set for December 20, and he faces a possible maximum prison term of 99 years on the money laundering charge and 20 years on the conspiracy charge.

Two other men facing charges in the case are awaiting trial.

DeLay, a conservative Republican, helped Newt Gingrich spearhead the GOP revival in 1994 that won control of the House and Senate in the first midterm election under Democratic President Bill Clinton.

While serving as the GOP's congressional whip, DeLay earned the nickname "The Hammer" for his strict enforcement of party discipline. In 2004, he was admonished three times by the House ethics committee, which warned him to "temper" his future actions to comply with House rules.

DeLay stepped aside as majority leader after his 2005 indictment on the money laundering and conspiracy charges and resigned from Congress the following year. He fought the charges on procedural grounds for several years, seeking unsuccessfully to have the trial held in his home county in suburban Houston instead of in the state capital, Austin, and blaming the indictment on a partisan prosecutor.

This past summer, DeLay said a separate, long-running federal criminal investigation of his ties to lobbyist Jack Abramoff had been closed with no charges.

Abramoff pleaded guilty in 2006 to charges of fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to bribe public officials. Two former DeLay aides who joined Abramoff's lobbying team after leaving Capitol Hill also pleaded guilty during the wide-ranging influence peddling investigation.

The Justice Department has declined to comment on the status of the Abramoff investigation, which also resulted in prison time for Ohio Republican Rep. Bob Ney and for Steven Griles, the No. 2 official in the Interior Department for much of the administration of President George W. Bush.

In August, DeLay told CNN that his legal bills have topped $8 million.

Despite his legal troubles, DeLay found time last year to appear as a short-lived contestant on the television show "Dancing with the Stars." He dropped out of the demanding dance competition due to stress factors in both feet.

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DeLay signs first lobbying clients in years

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