I've mentioned the website Tom Delay's House of Scandal before.
However, it's been expanded into something which is a full-blown, new political tool. What the DCCC has done is databased every House Republican's voting history and financial statements, and correlated them with Tom DeLay's.
Thus, they now have a page asking, How Tangled Up With DeLay is Your Member ? You select your state (say, California), and it gives you links to all the Republican House members in California. Click on, for example, "Dana Rohrbacher" -- a Republican from Southern California -- and you learn that Rohrbacher has taken $8583 from DeLay's ARMPAC; that he donated $5000 to DeLay's legal defense fund; that he voted with delay 89% of the time in the past year; that he voted to weaken the House Ethics rules so that DeLay could stay party cheif while under indictment; that he voted to turn back the Democratic attempt to fix this rule.
By using database and web technology, the DCCC has a tool which ties Tom DeLay's dirty politics directly to every single Republican member of the house -- and can tell you just how much money and backrubbing has been going on between your representative and Tom DeLay, with no effort whatsoever. This brings home the tie between DeLay and every single House member, so that his scandals have direct impact on how each and every one of them is perceived.
And that's a new tool.
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
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Say It Ain't So Bono!!
Mary Bono has taken $8,500 from Tom DeLay's ARMPAC. No surprise that Bono voted with Tom DeLay 92% of the time between Jan. 1 2004 and March 31 2005.
Is this the kind of government-for-hire that working families deserve?
Mary Bono voted to weaken the ethics rules in a move that many say served only to protect Tom DeLay.
Does the integrity of the House mean so little that Mary Bono would sacrifice it to defend Tom DeLay?
When Democrats offered a solution to clean up the House by strengthening ethics rules, Mary Bono voted to make sure it never even came to an up or down vote.
So instead of a bipartisan effort to get government working for Americans, Mary Bono stood for cronyism and partisan politics.
Tom DeLay has been admonished three times for his unethical behavior, yet Mary Bono gave DeLay's legal fund $5,000 to help defend him.
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