What a tangled web . . .

My ol' granddaddy dropped out of school in the 8th grade and went to
clerking in a grocery store and chopping cotton to help feed his brothers
and sisters after his daddy was shot to death over a card game gone wrong.
In spite of his lack of formal education, he read everything he could get
his hands on and accumulated a fine personal library. He was a man of great
wisdom and insight and -- needless to say -- granddad was a liberal
Democrat, in spite of the fact that the never traveled over 50 miles away
from his south Louisiana birthplace.

He once told me "Tell the truth, son, there's less to remember. What a
tangled web we weave when first we lie then deceive."

Ol' Tom DeLiar should have had a granddaddy like mine -- if he had, he
wouldn't be feeling the noose tightening around his neck. Now it seems that
most of what he did was financed by dirty money from Abramoff -- and
Abramoff is a couple of days away from a plea bargain that will save his ass
in exchange for DeLay's head on the chopping block.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/30/AR2005123001480.html

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The DeLay-Abramoff Money Trail
Nonprofit Group Linked to Lawmaker Was Funded Mostly by Clients of Lobbyist

By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, December 31, 2005; Page A01

The U.S. Family Network, a public advocacy group that operated in the 1990s
with close ties to Rep. Tom DeLay and claimed to be a nationwide grass-roots
organization, was funded almost entirely by corporations linked to embattled
lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to tax records and former associates of
the group.

During its five-year existence, the U.S. Family Network raised $2.5 million
but kept its donor list secret. The list, obtained by The Washington Post,
shows that $1 million of its revenue came in a single 1998 check from a
now-defunct London law firm whose former partners would not identify the
money's origins.

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