Well, that took a couple hours.
ABC is pointing out that Roy Blunt had employs one of the indictees in the Texas campaign finance scandal . The ROYB (Rely On Your Beliefs) PAC employes Jim Ellis as a consultant and they are happy with his work.
Roy Temple has been all over this of course. Not surprisingly, ROYB had some irregularities as they say.
The case against DeLay is a tough case to make, but the case against Ellis is far more solid. There is one rule in Texas concerning campaign finance–you can’t use corporate or union money to finance election campaigns.
As the Stakeholder points out, no one is even pretending these guys are rogue operatives. In fact, they are ensuring they have ongoing jobs at least until the indictments dropped. Sort of like someone else who is now the former head of FEMA.
Everyone in this case is being “taken care of” and quite well taken care of, yet there has already been a finding in civil court against TRMPAC for violating Texas law and no matter how you add up the math, someone was funneling money to support statewide candidates with corporate donations.
Politics isn’t a way of making people’s lives better for these people, it’s just bidness.