Monday, April 10, 2006
I'd be pissed if I was a donor
Following up on the last post, a DeLay staffer confirms DeLay held off resigning partly so he could convert campaign contributions to legal defense funds,
An additional impetus for putting off the resignation until now was suggested by John Feehery, a former aide to DeLay and House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.). "He needed to raise money for the defense fund. That was the bottom line," Feehery said. "He wanted to make sure he could take care of himself in the court of law." Under federal campaign rules, any reelection money a lawmaker raises can be used to pay legal fees stemming from official duties.
// posted by Erik @ 4/10/2006 09:01:00 PM
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