A Political Defendant Faces a Political Judiciary
Tom DeLay can be hard to like.
The former House majority leader seems to see everything through a partisan lens. He says remarkably caustic things about his foes. When you think it might be a good time for him to be humble, he puts on a matador outfit and dances across your TV screen.
But put that aside if you’re able.
He goes to court on Wednesday in Austin, hoping to overturn his convictions for laundering campaign finances and for conspiring to launder that money, and to thus get out of a three-year prison term that hasn’t started ...
Comments (11)
Neil Moyer via Texas Tribune on Facebook
No more delays for DeLay, Roast'em!
Trea Lindelow via Texas Tribune on Facebook
funny how there is no uproar from the sheeple on the right over this. Just among the talking heads. Stand trial.
John Z Cavazos via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Every dog has his day
John Mecklin via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Was something inadvertantly omitted/deleted from this column? As now written, the article says only that the appellate judge made this statement: “My name is Diane Henson. I’m running for Place 3 on the 3rd Court of Appeals, which is the court that sits in Austin next to the state Capitol. It is the court of appeals that would hear the appeal of Tom DeLay, if by chance he was convicted.” That's just a statement of fact; it's not partisan, or even negative to DeLay. I assume Henson did in fact go on to say bad things about DeLay in her 2006 speech; this column doesn't say what they might be. It would help other readers if a paragraph or so of obvious Henson partisanship/negativity against DeLay could be added to the piece, which, right now, is kind of a non sequitur.
Tom Sweazea via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I not only want to see his dancin' ass in TDC Orange, but for the 5th Count to overturn the illegal redistricting that little dictator schemed in 2000 ---GIVE US OUR STATE BACK !!!!
Life's a BITCH Tom, then you get HAMMERED by her.
Dale Curry
Tom Delay is guilty and is going to prison. I am sure he will be the belle of the ball there. I have a feeling he is going to wish he had stayed in the pest control business, though how this cockroach of a human could spray pesticides is beyond me. Hey Tom, be sure to tell everyone in your cell block, how tough on crime you are! And yes, that noise you hear is millions of democrats laughing their A** off.
Adrian Clark via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Why is that man not in prison, now?! He has spun out these endless appeals and has been duly convicted in a court of law. He should be in pokey with other felons!
Rudy Gonzales
There could be three asterisks on any pronouncements. All politics is local. Partisanship abounds in Texas even more so today than in Delay's times when he had total control. Delay missed out on his retirement pay and should pay for his shenanigans in Congress.
Mike Snyder
Don't delay, judge him today. Tom Thumb has earned his three year's lodgings in one of America's country clubs. Maybe he can find something worthwhile while incarcerated, like kill bugs or be a dance teacher for the other inmates. As long as he doesn't get to waltz on this one. Justice would have him in Huntsville, where it takes two to tango and where they could introduce Tom to the jailhouse polka.
donald baker
The election is over and Henson is gone. Her bias against DeLay is exactly why I voted against her. Tom DeLay is a political prisoner, and that fact will always play a role in how I vote in judicial elections. Good riddance Henson.
Bill Asher
He's worse than a snake oil salesman. He's a cockroach killer.