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WHAT A SHAME ON AUSTIN, TEXAS TO HAVE A DA LIKE RONNIE EARLE NIFONG. HE WASTED PUBLIC MONEY TO PROSECUTE A GOOD MAN LIKE TOM DELAY. HE USED HIS OFFICE TO GET REVENGE ON A REPUBLICAN LIKE HE HAS DONE IN THE PAST. WHAT DEMOCRAT HAS HE PROSECUTED RECENTLY, NONE. A RUNAWAY DEMOCRAT DA USING HIS OFFICE FOR THE DEMOCRATS

Anonymous:

"Jefferson also did not stand trial yet, but we all know he is guilty."

Delay was NOT "caught red handed", yet he has already been convicted in the Media... which is where you get your foolish comments.

Jefferson, on the other hand, WAS CAUGHT RED HANDED hiding $90,000 in his office freezer, yet is still in office... If Jefferson was a republican he would have been crucified by the media and booted a long time ago.

And BTW, I stand by my comments, which is why I don't mind adding my name.

Yet another Republican blaming the media for another corrupt politician.

He was caught red handed...money laundering is just one of the charges. Though if you look up his bio he has a long track record of doing underhaned shady deals.

I bet Josh Embry also thinks that Duke Cunningham did not do anything wrong.

Jefferson also did not stand trial yet, but we all know he is guilty.

Quit defending your crooked politician and blaming the media.

How can DeLay's name "be short hand for 'a corrupt public official'" when he hasn't even had a trial yet? What happened to innocent until proven guilty. I guess he's already been tried and hanged by the media. Thanks Clinton News Network (CNN).

Ronnie Earle sounds like the Texas version of Mike Nifong.

I feel disgraced to be from the same state Tom Delay is from. Texas is firmly in the "Bible Belt," and these people such as Delay, ( Bush also) feel ordained by God, that they can do no wrong! It's more than shameful!

This guy is a bad joke. Republicans are fools for supporting him and should have had the decency to ask him to step down a long long time ago. People forget what these people are supposed to be doing. Do not forgive such filth.

Tom Delay is a corrupt politician and he needs to quit blaming everyone else for what he did. I hope that he has to
serve time or has to pay a huge fine..

If he had nothing to hide and didn't do anything wrong, why did he resign? It's not like it would've been hard to find somebody to pay for his flights back and forth between DC and Texas to fight his case. I'm just sad I never got to take part in voting him out...

I do think the majority of politicians are crooked and I am in the process of writing a song about this very subject. " Going up is heaven but coming down is hell".

Delay sounds like Paris Hilton. It's always someone else's fault. If he weren't commiting crimes by abusing his power, he wouldn't be where he is today. How much of the thousands of dollars he's spending on defense did he make illegaly? Probably all of it. We reap what we sow.

Jefferson and DeLay share 1 thing in common in that they are both in denial.

Both of these guys are thugs that have no business serving as elected officials.

Let them rot – quit trying to hide behind your lies and fess up.