The Fine $500,000 Line Between Ethics and Family

Tom Delay, America's stalwart icon of moral and ethical behavior, has again come under the vicious thumping of the fourth estate. Both the New York Times and the Washington Post have today written about 2 different ethical lapses on the part of Mr. Delay.

The New York Times reports, "The wife and daughter of Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, have been paid more than $500,000 since 2001 by Mr. DeLay's political action and campaign committees, according to a detailed review of disclosure statements filed with the Federal Election Commission and separate fund-raising records in Mr. DeLay's home state, Texas."

Neat!

The Washington Post states, "A six-day trip to Moscow in 1997 by then-House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) was underwritten by business interests lobbying in support of the Russian government, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the trip arrangements."

Those were just the 1st paragraphs from the respective publications.

To the Honorable Congressman from my own ethically challenged home of Houston, Texas, we hardly knew you. Well, maybe we knew you too well.