WHY DID TOM DELAY RESIGN?
According to The Washington Post DeLay’s decision to resign may have more to do with the news that three days earlier his former deputy chief of staff, Tony C. Rudy, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and corruption charges, telling federal prosecutors of a criminal enterprise being run out of DeLay’s leadership offices. Rudy’s demise is only the latest of DeLay’s top aides and associates facing legal issues — many of whom are also powerful players in the GOP infrastructure. From a recent Ari Berman article in The Nation following DeLay’s indictment for money laundering: “Three individuals, eight corporations and two political action committees (PACs) connected to DeLay have been indicted as a result of the probe. In addition, the government’s top procurement official, David Safavian, was arrested in September for obstructing a criminal investigation into uber-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a close DeLay ally. Abramoff himself is under criminal investigation for defrauding Indian tribes and was in
