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05/26/05 |
I wonder if Howard Dean and Ronnie Earle have been hanging out together. Our paper pointed out something interesting in an editorial this morning:
"One would think Ronnie Earle, the veteran Travis County district attorney, would be smarter than what he showed the other day.
Earle is up to his eyeballs in an investigation into whether Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay violated state campaign finance laws.
Republicans contend Earle is a partisan hack, a Democrat "out to get" DeLay.
Democrats defend the prosecutor, saying he has gone after Democratic legislators in the past as well.
So, what does Earle do? He stands on May 12 before a Democratic crowd in Dallas, raises about $102,000 for potential Democratic candidates and then talks directly about the man - DeLay - he is investigating for alleged criminal wrongdoing.
Earle's performance in Big D - offering up the political red meat on which partisans in both parties thrive - gives the GOP all the ammo it needs to undercut his efforts at finding the truth about DeLay and whether he violated state campaign spending laws.
Earle has been in public life a long time. He has been at the center of these kinds of investigations before. Earle clearly should have known better than to speak so openly and with such contempt about DeLay at a partisan event.
Then again, maybe all that political power Earle has acquired as district attorney in Travis County has gone to his head."
The Houston Chronicle quoted Earle as saying "This case is not just about Tom DeLay. If it isn't this Tom DeLay, it'll be another one, just like one bully replaces the one before..."
"This is a structural problem involving the combination of money and power," he added. "Money brings power and power corrupts."
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Funny he should say that, helping raise $102,000 for a democratic organization...
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