CREW URGES TEXAS STATE AND FEDERAL ELECTED OFFICIALS TO RETURN DONATIONS

29 Sep 2005 // With the indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and other key players in a Texas redistricting scheme, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) urges state and federal elected representatives who financially benefited from potentially illegal corporate dollars to return that money immediately.
The indictment alleges that associates of former Majority Leader Tom DeLay laundered contributions to Texans for a Republican Majority (TRMPAC) through the Republican National State Election Committee (RNSEC). That money was then given to candidates who Rep. DeLay and TRMPAC supported for the Texas House of Representatives, thus violating Texas law which bans corporate contributions to state candidates. The ultimate goal was to secure Republican majority control of the Texas Legislature in the 2002 election in order to gerrymander Texas Congressional districts.

Five Texas state representatives received the TRMPAC money that was funneled through RNSEC and the five new Texas congressmen who were elected as a result of the gerrymandering accepted contributions from Rep. DeLay’s political action committee, Americans for a Republican Majority (ARMPAC).