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	TPJ Letter to District Attorney
		Texans for Public Justice (TPJ) has reason to believe that a general-purpose political committee registered in the state of Texas, Texans for Republican Majority (400 West 15th Street, Suite 1600, Austin, TX 78731, Bill Ceverha, Treasurer), violated Chapter 253 of the Texas Election Code on numerous occasions relating to the 2002 Texas legislative elections.
		A review of the $1,547,963 in contributions reported by TRM in its IRS 8871 filings appears to show that, at a minimum, $602,300 of those funds appeared to be contributed by corporations, which under the Texas Election Code,are prohibited from contributing to TRM to fund any political activities.
		TRM’s IRS 8872 filings also include the $791,500 in political expenditures that are itemized on the TRM Ethics Commission filings, but the IRS filings reveal an additional $619,266 in expenditures, many of which appear to be political expenditures not reported to the Texas Ethics Commission.
	www.tpj.org /press_releases/trm_complaint_letter.html (882 words)

	Texans for a Republican Majority PAC - SourceWatch
		Texans for a Republican Majority PAC - SourceWatch
		Texans for a Republican Majority PAC, also known as TRMPAC, was founded by James M. Ellis, director of Thomas D. DeLay's "leadership political action committee, and was launched, in part, with a $75,000 contribution from Mr.
		DeLay is chairman of the TRMPAC advisory board, "a position highlighted in the organization's fund-raising appeals," Texans for Public Justice reported June 28, 2004.
	sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=TRMPAC (235 words)

	George W. Bush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Republican, he belongs to one of the most politically influential American families, being the son of former President George H. Bush and elder brother of Jeb Bush, the present Governor of Florida.
		However, the Bush Administration implemented major changes in U.S. foreign policy by withdrawing its participation in the 1998 Kyoto Protocol (although in 1998 the Senate vote to participate in the treaty was 0 for and 95 against) and the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia, in order to pursue national missile defense.
		Major progress was achieved in Iraq immediately following Bush's re-election, with large turnouts during elections in January and December 2005, as well as in a referendum to approve a constitution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_W._Bush (7993 words)

	Texans for a Republican Majority - SourceWatch
		Texans for a Republican Majority (TRMPAC) is a political action committee associated with Congressman Tom DeLay.
		In March 2003, Texans for Public Justice filed a complaint with Travis County District Attorney Ronald Earle.
		Texans for a Republican Majority page on The Center for Public Integrity website.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Texans_for_a_Republican_Majority (270 words)

	Criminal Investigation of Tom DeLay Fundraising in Texas
		Texans for a Republican Majority is an offshoot of DeLay's Americans for a Republican Majority, created in 1994 to elect conservatives to public office.
		Republican leaders said they worked with lawyers who specialize in election law to ensure that their corporate money was used legally.
		Investigators said they believed that Texans for a Republican Majority and TAB coordinated their efforts during the election, sharing staff, for instance, meeting to plot strategy and supporting virtually the same slate of Republican candidates.
	www.yuricareport.com /Corruption/CriminalInvestigationDeLayFundraising.html (1802 words)

	Off the Kuff: More heat on Craddick
		In the wake of yesterday's NYT article on the yearlong investigation into the Texans for a Republican Majority PAC, the Statesman reports that the evidence is mounting against the speaker.
		The $152,000 from Texans for a Republican Majority was to be given to 14 legislative candidates.
		Texans for a Republican Majority raised $1.5 million for the 2002 elections, including $600,000 in corporate money, to help elect a Republican majority in the Texas House of Representatives.
	www.offthekuff.com /mt/archives/003033.html (737 words)

	NOW with David Brancaccio. Politics & Economy. Congressman Tom DeLay \| PBS
		Texas District Judge Joseph Hart ruled ON May 28, 2005, that the treasurer of Texans for a Republican Majority (TRMPAC), organized by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, violated the state's election law by failing to report $684,507 in contributions from corporations and other donors in 2002.
		His responsibilities include developing the issues and policies that form the Republican agenda, determining the legislative schedule in Congress by selecting which bills the House will consider and the timing of their consideration, and coordinating the work performed by House committees.
		A native Texan, Tom DeLay was born in Laredo on April 8, 1947.
	www.pbs.org /now/politics/delay.html (434 words)

	PERRspectives Blog: February 2006 Archives
		In 2002, Tom Delay led the all-out effort to win a Republican majority in the Texas legislature, a successful effort that led to the gain of six GOP seats in Congress in 2004.
		As the Washington Post reported today, the IRS cleared Texans for Public Justice after an audit commenced at the request of House Way and Means Committee member Sam Johnson, a Delay foot soldier and fellow Texas Republican.
		The Republican leadership is singing from the same Karl Rove fear-mongering hymnal to justify the President's lawbreaking.
	www.perrspectives.com /blog/archives/2006_02.htm (4877 words)

	Political Friendster Connection - Texans for a Republican Majority connected to IRS
		That’s nearly double what TRM told the state ethics commission it raised and spent, even though the Austin-based TRM was actively involved in Texas campaigns and bound by state disclosure laws.
		He was the largest individual Republican donor in the 2002 cycle, writing close to $4 million in checks to various Republican campaigns and PACs.
		Of the $751,285 in contributions TRM didn’t report to the state, at least $602,300 (80 percent) was corporate money.
	www.politicalfriendster.com /showConnection.php?id1=1015&id2=2755 (489 words)

	Texans for Fiscal Responsibility
		A friend of Empower Texans and TFR today passed along the "newsletter" that accompanies his water bill in the City of Taylor.
		Houston Mayor Bill White has proposed a mere 1/8 of one percent tax rate decrease, but this would actually result in a large tax increase due to rising appraisal vaues, leading Harris County Republican leaders and activists to demand real relief.
		In 2005, Texans paid $3,368 per capita in state and local taxes.
	www.empowertexans.com (363 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Suit over GOP campaign fund set to kick off today in Texas
		AUSTIN, Texas —; A Republican Party activist is scheduled to go on trial today in a civil lawsuit that accuses him of taking part in an illegal scheme to finance the GOP's rise to power here.
		The election that year was a historic one in Texas, as the GOP — long the minority party here — seized a majority of state House seats, giving it control of both houses of the Legislature and the governor's mansion.
		Texans for a Republican Majority is an offshoot of DeLay's Americans for a Republican Majority, which assists the campaigns of conservative political candidates.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002192082_texasgop28.html (783 words)

	Political Fundraising in Texas Is Target of Probe
		If the Republican activists behind the financing in Texas were vindicated, and they say they will be, they have suggested that similar arrangements could, and should, be used in local elections everywhere.
		Texans for a Republican Majority, whose leaders did not return phone calls, raised about $1.5 million during the 2002 election, investigators said.
		Among the group's purposes, leaders have said, was to elect a Republican speaker of the Texas House and to gain a GOP majority in the House.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0103-05.htm (1956 words)

	Off the Kuff: Perry's chief of staff being investigated
		As executive director for Texans for a Republican Majority, Colyandro was the nexus of decision-making on how the committee spent $1.5 million in the targeted legislative races, which included Austin-area candidates Jack Stick, Todd Baxter and Rick Green.
		The issue in the grand jury investigation of Texans for a Republican Majority is $600,000 in corporate donations that the group used for polling, research, fund-raising and consulting.
		With a huge mandate from the voters, unassailable Republican majorities in both the state House and the Senate, and a major budget crisis that justifies gubernatorial intervention, Perry is poised to become the most powerful governor of modern times.
	www.offthekuff.com /mt/archives/003048.html (1209 words)

	Files fuel questions on DeLay tie to PAC - The Boston Globe
		DeLay's spokesmen insisted that he was a mere figurehead of the committee he founded, Texans for a Republican Majority.
		Three days earlier, a Texans for a Republican Majority staff member had sent an e-mail to three other DeLay associates asking for the list.
		Late last month, a Texas judge ruled that the treasurer of Texans for a Republican Majority broke the law when he failed to report $532,233 in corporate money raised during the 2002 elections.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2005/06/13/files_fuel_questions_on_delay_tie_to_pac (648 words)

	Republican Majority officials indicted in fund-raising investigation
		The indictments came after almost two years of an investigation into Texans for a Republican Majority, a political action committee that DeLay created to elect a Republican majority in the Texas House of Representatives.
		Following the Republican sweep of the 2002 elections, Earle began investigating allegations that Republicans and their business allies used unprecedented amounts of corporate cash to affect the elections.
		Texans for a Republican Majority spent $1.5 million during the election, including $600,000 of corporate money that was spent on consultants, pollsters and phone banks.
	www.lufkindailynews.com /news/content/shared/tx/stories/0922indictments.html (790 words)

	Court Files Shed Light on DeLay's PAC Ties : San Francisco Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The elections of 2002 were pivotal for Texas Republicans, who — using, in part, $1.5 million raised by Texans for a Republican Majority — took control of the governor's mansion and both chambers of the Legislature.
		The details of his involvement in Texans for a Republican Majority will be important to determining whether prosecutors or Democrats' lawyers attempt to hold him personally liable for the fundraising operation.
		DeLay was "substantially" involved in Texans for a Republican Majority, "from its founding to the raising of money to figuring out how it would be spent," said Craig McDonald, director of Texans for Public Justice, a nonpartisan group in Austin that also fights the influence of money in politics.
	sf.indymedia.org /news/2005/06/1715546.php (1376 words)

	Grand Jury Indicts Two DeLay Associates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Two associates of U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay were indicted Tuesday on additional felony charges of violating Texas election law and criminal conspiracy to violate election law for their role in the 2002 legislative races.
		Once DeLay helped Republicans win control of the state Legislature in 2002, the majority leader engineered a Republican redistricting plan that gave the state's U.S. House delegation a 21-11 majority in the current Congress.
		Americans for a Republican Majority is DeLay's national fundraising committee, and he helped create Texans for a Republican Majority.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/09/13/national/w141343D45.DTL&type=printable (424 words)

	Documents Suggest Bigger DeLay Role in Donations
		DeLay personally forwarded at least one large corporate check to the committee, Texans for a Republican Majority, and that he was in direct contact with lobbyists for some of the nation's largest companies on the committee's behalf.
		RoBold, a major fund-raiser for the Texas committee and for Mr.
		DeLay, who was a founder of Texans for a Republican Majority and was a member of its advisory board.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines05/0309-11.htm (1209 words)

	Inquiry Focuses on Group DeLay Created (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The extent to which Texans for a Republican Majority used corporate money in the 2002 races is laid out in a trail of recently obtained documents.
		But records and interviews show that fund-raisers from Texans for a Republican Majority who were paid with corporate money solicited donations on behalf of individual candidates backed by the committee, which also spent corporate donations on fund-raising events, polling and a voter identification project.
		In one case, corporate donations were used to pay a $1,200 legal bill to defend a new Republican legislator, Bill Zedler, against accusations from his opponent that he did not live in the district that elected him.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/02/16/politics/16DELA.html?ex=1392267600&en=4cde0e93f813cbb3&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND (669 words)

	MichaelMoore.com : Lobbyist May Have Cost Tribe Millions
		DeLay's Texans for a Republican Majority and Americans for a Republican Majority never reported receiving any checks from the Louisiana tribe to federal or state regulators, their reports show.
		Months earlier, the tribe was asked to cancel a $25,000 check to Americans for a Republican Majority and send that money instead to a group called Sixty Plus that helped Republicans in their two-year effort to get a Medicare prescription drug benefit through Congress.
		The Senate Indian Affairs Committee chaired by Republican John McCain of Arizona was set to examine the relationships between Abramoff and the tribes at a hearing Wednesday in Washington.
	www.michaelmoore.com /words/latestnews/index.php?id=3086 (1037 words)

	Authorities Investigate Texas Republicans for Illegal Fundraising - The NewStandard
		Investigators suspect Texans for a Republican Majority--which has direct ties to Tom Delay (R-Texas)--allegedly spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on telephone banks and other initiatives during the 2002 election to support 20 GOP candidates.
		The first Texas House Republican majority in 130 years set limits on consumer lawsuits, passed abortion restrictions, and redrew congressional districts to favor Republicans.
		Republican supporters deny wrongdoing and say that if the investigation shows they are innocent, this type of corporate election funding should be used in local elections elsewhere, reports the Times.
	newstandardnews.net /content/?action=show_item&itemid=57 (445 words)

	Political Affairs Magazine - Tom DeLay: Judge Rules PAC’s Actions Illegal
		The ruling is another blow to the embattled Republican in a drawn-out saga of corruption and influence peddling.
		Republican state legislators, according to DeLay’s hometown newspaper the Houston Chronicle, tried to protect the Republican leader, their financial benefactor, by arguing that the state’s law banning corporate campaign contributions was unenforceable and vague.
		DeLay’s ability to raise funds and to funnel those funds to the campaigns of Republican candidates is widely regarded as the main source of his strong influence on the Republican Party and his ability to enforce Party discipline in Washington.
	www.politicalaffairs.net /article/articleview/1187/1 (821 words)

	Republican fund-raising leads to indictments of 3 DeLay aides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Texans for a Republican Majority raised about $600,000 from corporate donors in the 2002 election cycle, with much of the money going to pay for fund-raising and other political activities to help about 20 Republican candidates win seats in the Texas House.
		That majority was crucial for DeLay last year as he pushed a major congressional redistricting bill through the Legislature.
		Only a few of the corporations that contributed to Texans for a Republican Majority were indicted, but the indictments generally focus on violations of a Texas law that bans corporate donations from being used to promote individual political candidates.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/1222854/posts (1245 words)

	Ex-director defends Republican group
		The former executive director of Texans for a Republican Majority said Saturday that he cooperated fully in the grand jury investigation into whether corporate donations were used illegally to influence last year's legislative elections.
		Colyandro said he was unsure why the business association brought the ad to the Republican committee, but he saw nothing wrong with using it.
		The goal of Texans for a Republican Majority was to elect a majority of GOP legislators, who, in turn, chose Rep. Tom Craddick, R-Midland, as the first GOP speaker in more than 100 years.
	www.la.utexas.edu /~fackler/gov370-money/news/aas032303.htm (838 words)

	The Exterminator \| The New America Foundation
		In May 2002, Westar Energy sent a $25,000 check to Texans for a Republican Majority, an organization set up to propel Republicans into the Texas state government.
		The bad news for Westar still meant money in the bank for DeLay, and he used the donation, along with many others to Texans for a Republican Majority, to construct the GOP juggernaut that commandeered Texas' elections.
		Last April, the majority leader held a golf tournament in Key Largo, Fla., to benefit his foundation for foster children, the DeLay Foundation for Kids.
	www.newamerica.net /publications/articles/2003/the_exterminator (3083 words)

	DeLay indicted, steps down
		The charge, a state jail felony punishable by up to two years incarceration, stems from his role with his political committee, Texans for a Republican Majority, a now-defunct organization that already had been indicted on charges of illegally using corporate money during the 2002 legislative elections.
		Under House Republican Conference rules, any GOP leader who is indicted for a felony that carries at least a two-year prison term must step down immediately.
		In late September 2002, Colyandro, the executive director of Texans for a Republican Majority, sent a blank check to Ellis, who is DeLay's primary fundraiser in Washington.
	www.oxfordpress.com /health/content/shared/news/nation/stories/09/28COXDELAY.html (747 words)

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