# Is DeLay going down?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-delay-going-down/298028
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [April 6, 2005, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-delay-going-down/298028 "2005-04-06T13:40:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2013, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-delay-going-down/298028/241 "2013-01-05T01:26:26Z")
Bumping this thread for the sheer schadenfreude of seeing [DeLay go down](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/10/tom-delay-sentenced-to-th_n_806951.html).
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### Author:  [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2013, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-delay-going-down/298028/242 "2013-01-05T02:29:14Z")
Holy cow, that took longer than I thought.
AHHH!!! Zombie Tom DeLay!
I know I’d run.
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2013, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-delay-going-down/298028/243 "2013-01-05T02:33:53Z")
_:Campaiiiiignnnnnnnnnsssss_:
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2013, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-delay-going-down/298028/244 "2013-01-05T03:26:38Z")
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> Prosecutors said DeLay will likely be free for months or even years as his appeal makes it through the Texas court system.
Sumbitch isn’t going to prison.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2013, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-delay-going-down/298028/245 "2013-01-05T03:47:38Z")
He might. Nobody afraid of him any more. Sure as hell, nobody loved him, ever. Good bet that the guys who used to stand in line to kiss his ass, maybe they take his calls, maybe they don’t. He can’t do anything for them, leads to memory issues.
Whatever. Maybe Gov Goodhair pardons him, maybe he goes to Club Fed where the hard time is macrame class.
No, wait, that’s a state rap! So, he would go to a State of Texas prison. Maybe there is a God…
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2013, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-delay-going-down/298028/246 "2013-01-05T03:52:15Z")
He walked on a pocket change $10,000 bond. Dude will never wear prison clothes.
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### Author:  [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2013, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-delay-going-down/298028/247 "2013-01-05T04:13:13Z")
Eight years and $10 million in, he still hasn’t been locked up. For a three-year sentence.
Seems like he could have pled guilty and been out by now.
Boy’s gonna have a longer career as a defendant than as a legislator.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2013, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-delay-going-down/298028/248 "2013-01-05T04:42:16Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> He walked on a pocket change $10,000 bond. Dude will never wear prison clothes.
How’s he gonna skip bail, too easily recognized. Even in disguise, he walks past a flower shop, they all die, people notice shit like that.
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### Author:  [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2013, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-delay-going-down/298028/249 "2013-01-07T19:22:06Z")
Forget prison. He has to live (and die) with his legacy.
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### Author:  [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2013, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-delay-going-down/298028/250 "2013-01-07T21:22:10Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> Bumping this thread for the sheer schadenfreude of seeing [DeLay go down](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/10/tom-delay-sentenced-to-th_n_806951.html).
I don’t understand the bump. Did anything recent happen, or did you just find this thread and post a 2011 article? Do we just point and laugh or did something go over my head?
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2013, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-delay-going-down/298028/251 "2013-01-07T22:04:52Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#):
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> I don’t understand the bump. Did anything recent happen, or did you just find this thread and post a 2011 article? Do we just point and laugh or did something go over my head?
Uh, the recent thing that happened was that I saw this link elsewhere, and I didn’t notice the date. Google news shows a couple of other recent articles about his going to prison, both of which link back to Huffpost. Somehow this article surfaced its head last week, and I and a few other chuckleheads didn’t realize how old it was.
My bad.
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2013, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-delay-going-down/298028/252 "2013-01-08T00:30:10Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> Uh, the recent thing that happened was that I saw this link elsewhere, and I didn’t notice the date. Google news shows a couple of other recent articles about his going to prison, both of which link back to Huffpost. Somehow this article surfaced its head last week, and I and a few other chuckleheads didn’t realize how old it was.
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> My bad.
Well, if you’re looking for recent news on DeLay, [the most recent I can find](http://news.yahoo.com/tom-delay-case-appeals-court-071139601.html) is from October 2012, when his attorneys, appealing his case, were about to present oral arguments.
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> Jurors in Austin determined DeLay conspired with two associates, John Colyandro and Jim Ellis, to use his Texas-based political action committee to funnel a check for $190,000 in corporate money through an arm of the Washington-based Republican National Committee. The RNC then sent the same amount to seven Texas House candidates. Under state law, corporate money cannot be given directly to political campaigns.
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> Prosecutors claim the money helped the GOP take control of the Texas House, enabling them to push through a DeLay-engineered congressional redistricting plan that sent more Republicans to Congress in 2004, strengthening his political power.
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> DeLay’s attorney, Brian Wice, has said he plans to argue that no crime occurred because in 2002 money laundering in Texas only applied to funds in the form of cash and not checks. The state law was later changed to also specify checks.
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> Wice said money laundering did not occur because no illegal funds were funneled through the RNC.
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> The appeals process was delayed in part because some of the appeals court justices recused themselves. Also, DeLay successfully had a judge on the panel removed because of anti-Republican comments she made.
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> Wice said the composition of the panel after the changes — two Republicans and one Democrat— won’t give him an advantage.
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> The appeals court was to issue its ruling at a later date.
Nothing since then – well, appellate courts often issue no ruling until many months after oral argument.
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