ANYTHING NEW IN THE CORRUPT LITTLE WORLD OF THE LITTLE BUG MAN TODAY?

Damn, I sure hope Austin D.A. Ronnie Earle has plenty of bodyguards! Republican Crime Boss Tom DeLay was already plenty pissed off at him for all the conspiracy and fraud and money laundering indictments-- which forced DeLay to give up his title as House Majority Leader-- but now, Earle has gone and subpoenaed the bank records and other information from at least one of the Republican-connected defense contractors involved in the multimillion dollar Cunningham bribery case, a case which has now sucked in at least a dozen top GOP elected officials besides Cunningham and Tom DeLay.

According to an A.P. report, "District Attorney Ronnie Earle issued subpoenas late Monday afternoon for California businessmen Brent Wilkes and Max Gelwix, records of Perfect Wave Technologies LLC, Wilkes Corp. and ADCS Inc. in connection with a contribution to a fundraising committee at the center of the investigation that led to DeLay's indictment on money laundering charges. Perfect Wave contributed $15,000 in September 20, 2002 to Texans for a Republican Majority, a fundraising committee founded by DeLay, R-Texas."

Wilkes, a sleazy and super-corrupt Republican operative and head of Wilkes Corp., is one of four unnamed coconspirators listed in Cunningham's plea agreement and defense contractor ADCS and Perfect Wave Technologies are subsidiaries of Wilkes Corp., whose primary function seems to have been to get bogus contracts and funnel much of the money back into the pockets of Republican politicians. Wilkes' phony company was particularly "helpful" to DeLay and even hired Alexander
Strategies, a consulting firm that employed DeLay's crooked wife Christine. His private jet company, Group W Transportation, illegally provided free luxurious flights to DeLay at least three times. DeLay reimbursed Group W, although probably with Wilkes' own money!