Blunt's name coming up along with DeLay's more and more

these guys are amazing... just think of the hundreds of thousands of dollars that passed through their hands, money donated in good faith by people trying to support a political cause they believed in [after a pause for reflection, i realize that such a statement may be grossly naive on my part... they may well have been donating to buy influence... ~sigh~ ] and where did it go...? parties at the 2000 convention... man... what balls...!

Tom DeLay deliberately raised more money than he needed to throw parties at the 2000 presidential convention, then diverted some of the excess to longtime ally Roy Blunt through a series of donations that benefited both men's causes.

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"These people clearly like using middlemen for their transactions," said Lawrence Noble. "It seems to be a pattern with DeLay funneling money to different groups, at least to obscure, if not cover, the original source," said Noble, who was the Federal Election Commission's chief lawyer for 13 years, including in 2000 when the transactions occurred.

None of the hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations DeLay collected for the 2000 convention were ever disclosed to federal regulators because the type of group DeLay used wasn't governed by federal law at the time.

anybody who reads this kind of stuff and can still say our system isn't terminally corrupt has got their head deep in the sand...

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