Amygdala

Amygdala

TOM DELAY EFFED US, SO EFF 'EM BACK. Does everyone remember that federal election law -- say, who writes that, anyway? -- conveniently allows money raised for a re-election fund to be transferred to a legal defense fund? (Why, it's almost as if it were in the interest of representatives in Congress to make that easy and legal.)

Quoting a subscriber-only Roll Call piece:

A few lobbyists who helped raise money for Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) — all of them outside the inner circle of the former Majority Leader — say they’d like the outgoing Congressman to offer them their money back.

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His re-election kitty, probably worth upwards of $1 million, is widely expected to be shifted into a fund to pay his mounting legal bills. While these lobbyists didn’t mind cutting checks to the Majority Leader, or even a member of the Appropriations Committee, they aren’t so energized about spreading their generosity to DeLay’s legal team because, well, what’s in it for them?