Bronco_Beerslug
08-03-2006, 05:09 PM
He tried to end run the rules once again apparently.
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Court: DeLay must stay on the ballot
From Mark Preston and Candy Crowley
CNN Washington Bureau
Thursday, August 3, 2006; Posted: 6:49 p.m. EDT (22:49 GMT)
NEW ORLEANS (CNN) -- A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling against the Texas Republican Party in its effort to remove former Rep. Tom DeLay from the ballot in his old Sugar Land district this November.
The state GOP will appeal "expeditiously to the Supreme Court," party officials said.
"We do intend to appeal the decision," Gretchen Essell, spokeswoman for the Texas Republican Party, told CNN. Through the party's attorney, James Bopp Jr., state GOP chairwoman Tina Benkiser repeated this plan.
DeLay's daughter, Dani DeLay Ferro, who is acting as a spokeswoman for her father, described the court's decision in an e-mail message to CNN as "just another step in the process."
DeLay, who is fighting state money-laundering charges, announced his resignation from Congress shortly after winning the GOP nomination for a 12th term in March.
In an effort to keep his seat in Republican hands, DeLay announced that he was changing his legal residence to Virginia -- a move he said would disqualify him from November's race and allow the GOP to pick a new nominee that would have a better chance of winning in November.
But U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks ruled last month that DeLay in effect withdrew from the race, and Texas law prohibits the party from replacing a candidate under those circumstances.
Allowing the GOP to replace DeLay after voters have chosen their nominee "would be a serious abuse of the election system and a fraud on the voters, which the court will not condone," Sparks wrote.
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Court: DeLay must stay on the ballot
From Mark Preston and Candy Crowley
CNN Washington Bureau
Thursday, August 3, 2006; Posted: 6:49 p.m. EDT (22:49 GMT)
NEW ORLEANS (CNN) -- A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling against the Texas Republican Party in its effort to remove former Rep. Tom DeLay from the ballot in his old Sugar Land district this November.
The state GOP will appeal "expeditiously to the Supreme Court," party officials said.
"We do intend to appeal the decision," Gretchen Essell, spokeswoman for the Texas Republican Party, told CNN. Through the party's attorney, James Bopp Jr., state GOP chairwoman Tina Benkiser repeated this plan.
DeLay's daughter, Dani DeLay Ferro, who is acting as a spokeswoman for her father, described the court's decision in an e-mail message to CNN as "just another step in the process."
DeLay, who is fighting state money-laundering charges, announced his resignation from Congress shortly after winning the GOP nomination for a 12th term in March.
In an effort to keep his seat in Republican hands, DeLay announced that he was changing his legal residence to Virginia -- a move he said would disqualify him from November's race and allow the GOP to pick a new nominee that would have a better chance of winning in November.
But U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks ruled last month that DeLay in effect withdrew from the race, and Texas law prohibits the party from replacing a candidate under those circumstances.
Allowing the GOP to replace DeLay after voters have chosen their nominee "would be a serious abuse of the election system and a fraud on the voters, which the court will not condone," Sparks wrote.
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