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Tom DeLay's Cash Flow Problems

by TChris

Barring a successful appeal, Tom DeLay's name must stay on the ballot as the GOP candidate for the congressional seat he abandoned. It's widely assumed that DeLay, despite the distraction of a pending indictment, will campaign for the seat if that decision isn't overturned, but Roll Call (by way of Raw Story) reports that DeLay has been spending his campaign funds on lawyers, leaving him with little cash on hand to mount a campaign.

DeLay has only $641,000 in his campaign account, compared to $2.2 million available to the Democratic candidate, Nick Lampson. And DeLay's need for money to solve his legal woes won't end soon.

With legal bills still mounting -- DeLay faces a local trial later this year on campaign finance charges and the probe of ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff continues -- he was originally expected to use all his leftover funds to pay a legal team that now includes lawyers from nine different firms.

DeLay has done his party no favors.

Even if the appeal is successful, an as yet unknown Republican candidate will in all probability have less than three months to organize a campaign against a well-funded Democratic opponent.

The British statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke, one of the fathers of modern conservative thought, observed, "All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities." So it is with Tom DeLay, whose abandonment of the principles that propelled Republicans to victory in 1994, threatens to reduce the Republican majority in the House of Representatives by one more seat.

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