One of the major reasons we have called on the House Ethics Committee to appoint an outside counsel to investigate the allegations of ethics abuses against Tom DeLay is to avoid any potential conflict of interest. We are concerned about the close financial connections between DeLay and the GOP members of the Ethics Committee. However, DeLay's sphere of influence in the House extends beyond the Ethics Committee:
May 13 (Bloomberg) -- House Majority Leader Tom DeLay gave more money to U.S. congressional candidates than any lawmaker in the last decade. That investment may now be paying off as Republican colleagues stick by him in the face of ethics questions.
Since Republicans ended a 40-year drought and took over the House of Representatives in 1995, the Texas representative has contributed $3.5 million to 432 congressional candidates, Federal Election Commission records show. That's almost $1 million more than House Speaker Dennis Hastert of Illinois gave. Three of every four House Republicans now serving received donations from DeLay.
Those donations have helped Republican candidates win their congressional races, enabling the party to retain its House majority and building goodwill for DeLay among his colleagues.
This web of connection between DeLay and the majority of the GOP members in the House of Representatives through campaign money donations and political donations, makes a fair and credibe investigation almost impossible to achieve. That is why
we need an outside counsel in place to investigate DeLay, who will be free from the complications created by past and present relationships with Tom DeLay, and operate outside sphere of influence.
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