Smoke, fire?

I lived in Texas when the whole re-redistricting fiasco played out. There was definitely something not quite kosher going on, but my assumption at the time was more of an “abuse the process” action, not something that was arguably in violation of the letter of the law (in this case, campaign finance law in Texas).

Representative Tom DeLay did take a direct role in the re-redistricting imbroglio, attempting to get federal agencies involved in tracking down the Democrats from the Texas state legislature who had fled the state to prevent a quorum from being achieved and the re-redistricting from being passed.

Now, it appears that a grand jury has found enough evidence for an indictment against Representative DeLay for conspiracy to violate the campaign finance law.

While it is entirely possible that this case is being pursued so energetically because the prosecutor in Travis County involved is a Democrat, with all the ethics reprimands and other shady actions swirling around Representative DeLay the old saw “where there’s smoke, there’s fire” comes to mind.

Where there is power, it seems we are condemned to also have abuse of power.

UPDATE: The Commissar at The Poliburo Diktat writes that he wants to learn more before he is convinced of any valitidy to the accusations of “partisan witch-hunt” that are being flung about by many on the right-wing.

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