Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) once called the jurors in his recent trial his “brothers and sisters.” His view has changed a bit since they convicted him and he was sentenced to three years. DeLay has been making the talk show circuit and said on “The Today Show” that the jury was a liberal cabal led by a Greenpeace activist.
DeLay stated “I was tried in the most liberal county in the state of Texas and, indeed, in the United States. The foreman of the jury was a Greenpeace activist.” Yet, he added: “So, I’m not criticizing the jury. The point is this is a political campaign.” That does not track completely. They are a bunch of liberals led by a greenie as part of a political campaign, but I am not criticizing them in the least.
There is no question that Austin is extremely liberal — particularly for Texas. I also admit that, if I were representing DeLay, I would not be delighted with the Austin jury pool. However, DeLay’s interview stands in sharp contrast to his statement “I know them like they’re my brothers and sisters.”
Source: TPM
Delay should have hired attorneys that knew how to conduct a proper voire dire.
I always thought he was a pin head wizard. Who knew he could work the tables from SoHo up to Brighton?
Tommie Delay is such a pin ball wizard.
When the DeLay case mirrors the case against Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman and businessman Richard Scrushy I’ll have more sympathy for him. I’ll also be interested in seeing how
Siegelman has an appeal hearing coming up the 19th of this month. I’m hoping he prevails but he’s going back to the dog that bit him (11th Circuit Court) so I’m not holding my breath
http://andrewkreig.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/siegelman-judge-asked-to-recuse-now-with-kagan-and-rove-opposing-oversight/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Siegelman
@mespo727272 http://www.correntewire.com/refresh_your_memory_the_gop_has_always_been_the_party_of_perverts
Don’t forget the thirty Senators, all Republicans, that sided with a corporation against a gang rape victim(s), Jamie Leigh Jones, who was then kidnapped by her employer and held by armed guards!!!
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39/Zemo999/List.jpg
AY, thanks for the posting, yes, he was very law and order when it was someone else.
erykah,
We agree on that.
Look the man was tried,found guilty and sentenced to three years. So he should STFU and take his ass to jail. If that were Pookie he would be serving time not running his trap all over the media circuit.
Delay should be happy if he was sentenced by a biased liberal jury. Republicans for years have berated liberals as being soft on crime, have they not? Given the slap on the wrist he got, instead of 30 days in the electric chair he should have gotten, perhaps the GOP is right.
Austin is the only place in Texas I’d like to go back to visit. I’d say to live, but it’s surrounded by . . . Texas.
I think Tom Delay was probably universally disliked in Austin. Never see a republican lawn sign there. They have a very liberal congressman, Lloyd Doggett. DeLay tried to gerrymander him out of office but he still managed to win. The city council is progressive and Austin is considered to be one of the more gay friendly cities in the US. Nal is right. It is also “fun”, very fun.
doh, my tag failed
SB
suchsoMarnie,
Why are Republicans all such so pathetic at playing victims?
Just a suggestion.
Austin is the capitol city of a state that is Southern, Bible Belt, still has a large rural population, and is controlled almost totally by Republicans from the city to the national level and elects people like Louie Goober Gommert, Pete C. Sessions and Rick Whorehouse Perry.
Located in almost any other state it would be seen as conservative or at most a politically moderate city.
That aside, if the jury was biased it is because Delay’s lawyer failed to have biased jurors removed during pretrial examinations.
Why are Republicans all such pathetic victims?
Mespo727272:
here are some more:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31672_Democrat_Sex_Scandals-_Do_They_Really_Exist
http://sexoffenderissues.blogspot.com/2008/09/top-10-democrat-sex-scandals-in.html
Mespo727272:
you just have to use Yahoo:
http://www.ranker.com/list/democrat-sex-scandals/web-infoguy
not all are sex scandals here:
http://www.boycottliberalism.com/Scandals.htm
Elaine M:
the word looks.
Concrete peotry? Is that about buildings?
link: http://www.campusprogress.org/articles/tom_delays_guide_to_criminal_justice
Sorry….
Texas has had its fair share of impartial juries…so whats Tom complaining about…
He has had his Voice heard on subject such as this:
This nation sits at a crossroads. One direction points to the higher road of the rule of law. Sometimes hard, sometimes unpleasant, this path relies on truth, justice and the rigorous application of the principle that no man is above the law. Now, the other road is the path of least resistance. This is where we start making exceptions to our laws based on poll numbers and spin control. This is when we pitch the law completely overboard when the mood fits us, when we ignore the facts in order to cover up the truth.
No man is above the law, and no man is below the law. That’s the principle that we all hold very dear in this country.
-Rep. Tom DeLay, on the impeachment of President Clinton, October 9, 1998……
Do words have two meanings……really Tom…
Elaine M-
Love the poem. “feral chocolate bunny”… I expect a Pulitzer Prize nomination is already in the mail.
As to Tom Delay- As Stan Laurel once said to the Judge, “Aren’t you going to hang him?”.