Nice to see DeLay fighting back. It would be even nicer to see the media showing both sides of the story. Too few people are aware of what an unsavory character Earle is.

I’m seeing a Clinton-Earle ticket in ‘08.

Earle? Is there any relation to Boss Hogg in Hazard County?

Hypocrite - Thy name is Earle!

Geez. This is getting more ridiculous than Rather and his memo. Wasn’t that deal put together down there is Earle’s backyard? I’m starting to see a pattern here. Could this idiot be the perpetrator of both hoaxes?

Of course he was taking corporate and union money. All the Dems in Texas are doing it, that’s a good part of how crooked this behavior of Earle’s is.

Instead of me getting started on Earle again, I’ll just point to this NR article by Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor, which says in part:

“For a prosecutor, these aren’t just major lapses. They are firing offenses. For prosecutors such as those I worked with over the years, from across the political spectrum, I daresay they’d be thought firing-squad offenses.”

The rest of his article says it all, in case you were wondering if what Earle is doing is weird or unethical or something, or if you were wondering what a former prosecutor thinks about him.

This is the correct link, sorry.

Good! So there’s at least one thing to have Earle investigated on. Since he’s a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Demoncratic party, there is likely much more to find. I can hardly wait to see what else comes out, because this guy has all the hallmarks of a true slimeball.

- Eric.

Apparently Earle’s motto is “do as I say not as I do”…for some reason this does not surprise me.

Unfortunately, Texas law specifically allows political donations by “professional corporations”, which include all law firms. Most law firms give to Democrats.

Holy Me, you guys are retarded.

The law in Texas states that corporate money can be accepted, but not spent on anything but OVERHEAD. Y’know, light bills and such.

The problem with DeLay and TRMPAC is that they spent corporate money on MORE THAN THAT. From one of their fundraising appeals:

””Unlike other organizations, your corporate contribution to TRMPAC will be put to productive use,” the piece said. “Rather than just paying for overhead, your support will fund a series of productive and innovative activities designed to increase our level of engagement in the political arena.”

Sorry. Earle is, once again, not a Democrat pawn. You’ll just have to accept that DeLay broke the law, and has to pay now.

Could it be possible that both are true; DeLay broke the law AND Earle is a Democratic Party Pawn?

Of course that’s possible. But it’s now apparent that Earle went grand jury shopping, first getting an indictment that didn’t stand up to scrutiny, second failing to get an indictment at all and then third getting an indictment out of a grand jury in only a couple of hours of presentation on a law that didn’t exist when the “crime” is supposed to have occurred.

So you tell me how likely it is that this indictment is going to hold long enough to even get to trial.

But never fear. As long as Earle is in office, he’ll just keep shopping around until he gets both the grand jury and the judge he wants. Then he’ll just have to pack a jury.