Corrupt-as-they-come Majority Leader Tom DeLay Subpoenaed in Texas Civil Lawsuit
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WASHINGTON
– House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has been subpoenaed in a Texas civil
lawsuit to testify about his role in using government resources to
track down Democratic legislators who fled the state during last year's
bitter redistricting dispute.
The
subpoena was delivered to DeLay's lawyers in Houston on Wednesday after
an attempt to serve DeLay personally failed, said Rep. Lon Burnam, the
Democratic state lawmaker from Fort Worth who filed the lawsuit.
The subpoena calls for DeLay to give a deposition in Austin on Monday.
…Burnam
said there is a “litany of questions with regard to misuse of public
funds” to pursue Democratic House members who fled to Ardmore, Okla.,
and DeLay's role in that.
…More
than 50 state House Democrats, including Burnam, went to Oklahoma in
May 2003 to prevent the quorum needed to pass a congressional
redistricting map engineered by Republicans and pushed by DeLay.
Department
of Public Safety troopers were dispatched to find the Democrats and
return them to Austin. A division of the Department of Homeland
Security also was contacted to help search for a plane owned by
Democratic Rep. Pete Laney, which took some of the lawmakers to
Oklahoma.
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