9/28/2005 - MMFA Uses Laughable Standard to Prove Ronnie Earle Not Politically Motivated in Delay Indictment
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In an item from September 22, 2004, Media Matters for America used a certain standard to prove that Travis County, Texas' District attorney Ronnie Earle's recent indictment of Republican Tom Delay on corruption charges were not partisan.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200409220004
MMFA says:
FOX News Channel correspondent Brian Wilson echoed allegations by U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) that the September 21 indictments of three top aides to DeLay by Ronnie Earle, district attorney in Travis County, Texas, were politically motivated. But evidence shows otherwise.
MMFA then cites articles showing Earle indicting Democrats.
What MMFA failed to note, is that most of these Democrats were conservative Democrats.
They note that Earle looked into Dem. Rep. Martin Frost.
Martin Frost, as the ultra-liberal DailyKos blog has noted, consistently stands by conservative values and distances himself from the core of the Democratic Party. The DailyKos quotes the Dallas Morning News: "So who loves President Bush the most?
It's hard to tell if you're watching the TV ads that the candidates are airing in the 32nd Congressional District race.
Both Democrat Martin Frost and Republican Pete Sessions have produced spots that attack the other for being out of touch with the mainstream, while attaching themselves to the president.
"In the real world, Sessions loves Bush far more," said Southern Methodist University political science professor Cal Jillson. "But in the artificial world, it's not clear."
Mr. Frost - running in a mostly Republican district - is trying to appeal to GOP voters in North Dallas.
Some of his campaign commercials show Mr. Sessions being in opposition to President Bush, while portraying himself as a tough, moderate Democrat.
He uses popular Republicans like Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas and John McCain of Arizona to make his point. And one ad even casts fellow Democrat Ted Kennedy in the same liberal boogeyman role as some Republicans do."
The website also went to say that they visited:
archive.org to check out Frost's campaign websites. Neither the 2002 nor 2004 model includes the word "Democrat" in the site's banner. The 2004 model does include this, though:
"Standing up for North Texas has never been about partisan politics, and it never should be - because that is wrong for the people we represent," Frost said. "I am a proud Democrat, but I am just as proud to stand with President Bush whenever he is acting in the national interest. I broke with a majority of my own party to support the President's decision to send American troops to Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein and his murderous regime. Two years ago, I was the only Democrat on the Select Committee on Homeland Security to vote to create the new Department of Homeland Security and, unlike my opponent, I supported President Bush's bipartisan 'No Child Left Behind Act' to improve public education."
Sounds like a Democrat in the mold of Ted Kennedy if I have ever heard one!
I don't have the time right now but I will update more on this. It also mentions Jim Mattox, who, as I will demonstrate when I do some more research tomorrow, was practically gloating about his record of handing out death penalties as Attorney General of Texas.
More to come...
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