Via the AP: Earle Probes Possible Cunningham-DeLay Tie.
It is impossible to tell from the story whether this is one of those six-degrees-of-separation kind of deals, or whether there is substance here. Certainly I wouldn’t put it beyond Ronnie Earle to go fishing (and I say that having paid some attention to Earle when I lived in Austin, not because I am one who thinks all of this is simply a partisan witch-hunt).
Still, from a purely political POV, by the time all of this is said and done DeLay is going to have been publicly connected to practically every scandal out there–there have already been suggestions of linkages to Abramoff–so that even such links aren’t established in court, the allegations will take a political toll.
It continues to appear that DeLay’s political career is over, and that the stars are aligning for an electoral ouster for the former Majority Leader.
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