More on Delay

SOF alerted me to this story. Short version: Jack Abramoff and Tom Delay created a nice little slush fund for funneling money from some pretty questionable sources into their political plans. Foreign money. Domestic corporations. The name of the shell? The U.S. Family Network.

After the group was formed in 1996, its director told the Internal Revenue Service that its goal was to advocate policies favorable for "economic growth and prosperity, social improvement, moral fitness, and the general well-being of the United States." DeLay, in a 1999 fundraising letter, called the group "a powerful nationwide organization dedicated to restoring our government to citizen control" by mobilizing grass-roots citizen support.

But the organization didn't actually spend money on public advocacy or education, and it clearly wasn't grass-roots. It was a tool to funnel money to bashing Democrats and redistricting. I like especially that it tried to use the moral tone of being pro-family, when in fact it was nothing of the sort. This Delay fellow is a piece of work. If I was a conservative Christian, I would be embarrassed.