Hooo-eee, thanks so much for the pointer to Slowpoke’s chart. I see she’s made the same point as my comment, with the slight difference that her version is screamingly funny. Careful as you embellish your chart: no Lhasa Apsos!!

Posted by Nell on 21 October 02005 @ 2am

I really like what you’re doing with this.

Posted by Thomas Jefferson on 21 October 02005 @ 9am

All of Virginia’s republican congressmen have recieved generous
donations from DeLay’s PAC. I think Randy Forbes is the “high roller”
and accepted 30K from him (or something to this amount); I also Virgil
Goode took some cash too…anyone who takes money from that worm DeLay
should share a prison cell with him…men like DeLay will destroy our
Democracy and they doing a pretty good job of it so far…

Posted by will on 21 October 02005 @ 10am

Isn’t there a site out there that shows what candidates accepted money from where? Not that this proves anything, but it would interesting to see all the financial connections between Delay’s PAC and the political candidates.

Since the illegal donations most likely went into a general bank account for this PAC, ANY funds coming out have some connection to the illegal donations.

Posted by Jim Thomas on 21 October 02005 @ 10am

Isn’t there a site out there that shows what candidates accepted money from where? Not that this proves anything, but it would interesting to see all the financial connections between Delay’s PAC and the political candidates.

There certainly is, Jim — on a federal level, it’s Open Secrets, and on a state level, it’s VPAP. I started on some of that homework last night, but I had to go to bed.

It’s Cantor’s role that particularly interests me. He was both receiving money from Abramoff ($12k) and being attacked with money Abramoff funneled to use against him ($15k). I wonder if he has any idea.

Posted by Waldo Jaquith on 21 October 02005 @ 11am

Waldo:

I really like what you’re doing here (connecting Republicans to national Republicans), but I unfortunately think that the complexity of the issue renders it rather politically inert…it’s just way too much to swallow.

The Kaine “sugar daddy” ads were embarrassingly ineffective – but they have some really good mail pieces that connect Kilgore to national Republican embarrassments.

Posted by Paul on 21 October 02005 @ 2pm

Two degrees of separation down here in House 64th: Lapetina (R, duh) took a contribution from Rep. JA Davis (R-1st, duh), who took a contribution from TRMPAC. Lapetina also took some of Pat Robertson’s African blood money.

Posted by mc on 22 October 02005 @ 10am

Waldo, your reportorial skills far surpass those of the majority of reporters covering this campaign. Bob Gibson and Pamela Stallsmith are the lone exceptions. Gibson and Stallsmith are noteworthy in that they are not averse to digging deeper than the press release or rehashing the dinner menu.

I’m hoping one of the “big guns” will take note of what you have pieced together here. Bravo!

Posted by SoccerMom on 22 October 02005 @ 11am

You’re violating U.N. anti-torture guidelines! This is incredible.

Posted by edward money on 24 October 02005 @ 8pm