TOM DELAY'S CUT AND RUN STRATEGY FAILING. JUDGE ADVISES HIM TO "RUN LIKE A RABBIT"

Tom DeLay still isn't in prison. He has some many criminal cases pending against him that it is hard to keep track of them all. So far he was forced to resign, "temporarily," as Republican Majority Leader in the House. Then the "temporarily" became permanent and he was replaced by another crooked wholly owned subsidiary of Big Business, John Boehner. And then, after it became apparent he stood virtually no chance of being re-elected in his home district and could drag the whole Republican Texas ticket down the toilet with him, he was forced to resign from congress. But he has already won the GOP primary (against a relative moderate, anti-corruption/anti-DeLay Republican). Still hoping to pull the strings behind the curtain, DeLay continues his never-ending efforts to corrupt Texas politics. He tried timing his resignation in such a way as to allow his own far right extremist machine to appoint the next Republican congressional candidate, instead of allowing Republican voters to pick his replacement in a democratic fashion.

So the Democratic Party of Texas sued and that court case has been dragging on for months as DeLay continues his cat-and-mouse game about where he actually lives now. According to Texas' Democratic State Chairman, Boyd Richie, "The fact that Tom DeLay was served (a subpoena) at his home in Fort Bend County supports what the Texas Democratic Party has known all along, that Tom DeLay has been and continues to be an inhabitant of the State of Texas. Obviously, this makes clear that the Republican Party cannot conclusively establish from any record, either today, tomorrow, or in October, that Tom DeLay will not be an inhabitant of Texas on Election Day... Tom DeLay's actions this weekend confirm that his cut and run scheme is just a charade. If the DeLay-Republican charade is allowed to stand, DeLay could conceivably return to Texas after he is 'replaced' on the ballot, re-register, and actually vote in the election he hopes to abandon."

Yesterday U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks heard DeLay lying his ass off at the federal courthouse in Austin, where he showed a Virginia hunting license to prove that he's now a citizen of Virginia and not of Texas. He claims to have not moved his furniture because the place he's crashing at living in in Virginia came already-furnished. His wife-- who has been an active participant in his criminal activities, a sort of a gun moll to his capo di tutti capi function in the GOP-- admits that she's not moving to Virgnia and will be maintaining the DeLay residence in Sugarland. Although the judge didn't have him jailed on the spot for perjury, according to the AUSTIN STATESMAN, he looked at DeLay and said "My recommendation is to run like a rabbit."

Bob Dunn at Fort Bend Now has all the details of the law suit.