Thomas D. DeLay: External Links 2004

The following are External Links related to House Majority Leader Thomas D. DeLay and the allegations, investigations, and scandals that are yet emerging about him and his activities.

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 * Thomas D. DeLay: External Links
 * Thomas D. DeLay: External Links 2005
 * Thomas D. DeLay: External Links 2006


 * DeLay, Incorporated NOW with Bill Moyers, PBS, January 6, 2004.
 * "Texas Redistricting Plan Upheld," AP, January 16, 2004. See article links on right-hand side of page for full story.
 * Lee Hockstader, "DeLay PAC Is New Focus Of Texas Probe. Prosecutors Examine Possible Illegal Use of Funds by GOP," Washington Post, February 28, 2004.
 * steve, "DeLay Scandal Apology," The Stakeholder/dccc.org blog, March 1, 2004.
 * Mike Allen and R. Jeffrey Smith, "S. Korean Group Sponsored DeLay Trip", Washington Post, March 10, 2005.
 * Lou Dubose, "Tom DeLay's funny-money trail. The GOP strongman's political machine has stopped at nothing to extend its power. Now it's facing indictments for violating Texas campaign finance laws," Salon, March 12, 2004.
 * Charles Babington, "Charity Tied To DeLay Is Questioned. Group Asks Lawmakers To Demand Ethics Probe," Washington Post, March 24, 2004: "Democracy 21 contends that the charity, Celebrations for Children Inc., is a political scheme established to let DeLay raise huge sums from interest groups and supporters to host lavish parties at this summer's Republican National Convention. ... DeLay spokesman Jonathan Grella said at least three-fourths of the charity's income will go to needy children, with the remainder paying for dinners, a golf tournament, a rock concert, Broadway tickets and the other fundraising events DeLay plans to host at the convention in New York City."
 * Alexander Bolton, "Two ethics groups dog DeLay charity. Democracy 21, Common Cause seek Hefley ruling," The Hill, March 24, 2004: "Two prominent government watchdog groups turned up the heat yesterday on House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) at a time when a seven-year ethics truce in the House seems to be unraveling. ... One of the groups, Democracy 21, delivered a formal ethics complaint against Celebrations for Children, a charity closely linked to DeLay, to the chairman and ranking members of the Standards of Official Conduct Committee and to members of the Republican and Democratic House leadership."
 * Charles Babington, "Charity Tied to DeLay Is Questioned. Group Asks Lawmakers To Demand Ethics Probe," Washington Post, March 24, 2004.
 * "DeLay to Step Down?" (posted by Kevin Drum, Political Animal/Washington Monthly), March 24, 2004: "Could it be? From Roll Call (subscription only): 'House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) has begun quiet discussions with a handful of colleagues about the possibility that he will have to step down from his leadership post temporarily if he is indicted by a Texas grand jury investigating alleged campaign finance abuses. ...Republican Conference rules state that a member of the elected leadership who has been indicted on a felony carrying a penalty of at least two years in prison must temporarily step down from the post.'"
 * "Top GOP Leader In Hot Water," AP/CBS News, March 25, 2004.
 * Molly Ivins, "The death of democracy. Cash and carry government achieves all-time seedy lows in Texas legislature, courtesy of Tom DeLay and TRMPAC," Working for Change, April 8, 2004.
 * Tyson Slocum, "Washington's Other Scandal," Tom Paine.Common Sense, May 7, 2004: "Representatives Tom DeLay (R- Texas), Billy Tauzin (R-La.) and Joe Barton (R- Texas) are implicated in a bribery scandal involving a corrupt Kansas electric utility, Westar Energy."
 * "Delay's Scandal-Ridden Children's Charity Cancels Events," Capital Hill Blue, May 19, 2004.
 * "GOP Leader Faces Ethics Complaint," AP/CBS News, June 15, 2004.
 * Stephen Spruiell, "Got DeLay? A dirty-tricks campaign against the House majority leader," The National Review, June 15, 2004.
 * Suzanne Gamboa, "Ethics Panel Reviewing DeLay Complaint", Associated Press, June 23, 2004.
 * R. Jeffrey Smith, "E-mail shows DeLay sought Enron aid," Washington Post, July 12, 2004. See Enron.
 * Douglas Waller, "A Parting Shot At Delay," Time, June 28, 2004.
 * R. Jeffrey Smith, "DeLay's Corporate Fundraising Investigated. Money Was Directed to Texas GOP to Help State Redistricting Effort," Washington Post, July 12, 2004.
 * Lou Dubose and Jan Reid, "Stranger Than Paradise. How Tom DeLay's deregulatory ideology stretched to the island of Saipan," Texas Observer, September 10, 2004.
 * "Indictments In Tom DeLay PAC Probe," AP/CBS News, September 22, 2004.
 * Joe Trippi, "Justice DeLay-ed. Will indictments of GOP House leader's aides matter?," MSNBC, September 23, 2004.
 * Susan Schmidt and Thomas B. Edsall, "Parties Bicker Amid Abramoff Inquiry. GOP Lawmakers Dispute Democrats' Talk of Damage to DeLay's Credibility," Washington Post, September 29, 2004.
 * Editorial: "DeLay's ethics: A Texas-size scandal surrounds the majority leader," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 30, 2004.
 * Timothy Noah, "Defendant DeLay? Nick Smith's bribery accusations land in the majority leader's lap," Slate, October 1, 2004.
 * Charles Babington, "Ethics Panel Rebukes DeLay. Majority Leader Offered Favor To Get Peer's Vote," Washington Post, October 1, 2004.
 * Charles Babington, "Analysts Consider DeLay's Rebukes. Third Strike Could Weaken Lawmaker," Washington Post, October 2, 2004.
 * Lou Dubose, "The decay of DeLay. New and spreading scandals plague House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and his political empire," Salon, October 4, 2004.
 * Timothy Noah, "Defendant DeLay? Part 2. Who blurted out, "$100,000"? A hypothesis," Slate, October 6, 2004.
 * Charles Babington, "DeLay Draws Third Rebuke. Ethics Panel Cites Two Situations," Washington Post, October 7, 2004.
 * Charles Babington and Juliet Eilperin, "Democratic Leaders Call for DeLay's Ouster," Washington Post, October 8, 2004.
 * Robert Novak, "Criminalized politics," Creators Syndicate (CNN), October 14, 2004.
 * Viveca Novak, "DeLay on the Defensive," Time, October 18, 2004.
 * Interview: Lou Dubose by Julian Brookes: "Nailing the Hammer," Mother Jones, October 27, 2004: "A veteran Texas journalist ponders the astonishing rise -- and likely fall -- of Tom DeLay."
 * Lou Dubose, "Justice DeLayed," Mother Jones, November/December 2004: "Tom DeLay has spun one of Washington's most powerful fundraising networks. But now a series of state and federal investigations could unravel it all."
 * Michael Graczyk, "DeLay wins re-election despite ethics admonishments", Kansas.com - Witchita Eagle, November 3, 2004. (This is an Associated Press story).
 * Thomas Ferraro, "Republican Congress Set to Push Bush Agenda", Reuters, November 3, 2004.
 * Carl Hulse, "House G.O.P. Acts to Protect Chief," New York Times, November 18, 2004. Subscription required.
 * David Brooks, "A Scandal Waiting to Happen," New York Times, November 20, 2004.
 * "Ethics panel scolds DeLay accuser," CNN, November 21, 2004.
 * Paul David Kuhn, "DeLay Appears To Be Off The Hook," CBS News, November 22, 2004.
 * Douglas Waller, "The Debate on DeLay," Time, November 29, 2004.
 * Terry McAuliffe, "Statement on Delay Scandal. Calls on House Republicans to Investigate," democrats.org, December 1, 2004.