With the news coverage centrally focused on the Tucson shootings, the recent updates on Tom DeLay have gone under the radar. Sentenced this past Monday to three years in prison and ten years probation, the former Texas Congressman will continue to appeal to have the conviction and sentence overturned.
The fact that Congressman DeLay has had to go through the process of inquiries in the first place, both at the national and state levels, should never have happened. I can't say it surprises me, with the good he did against Democrats in Washington and in Austin, and the only way his political enemies, notably the now-retired persecutor (I mean, uhh, prosecutor) Ronnie Earle, could stop him was to try and bring him down through the legal system; in other words, the criminalization of politics, as Mr. DeLay put it.
According to an article at Human Events, the odds look pretty good for the former Congressman to overturn the conviction. I certainly hope such will be the case. The Democrats successfully got Tom DeLay out of Congress already; let justice not be perverted a second time.
Keep the faith!
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