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Indicted former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s ties to former congressmen Van Hilleary and Ed Bryant run deeper than most Tennesseans realized. According to the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Washington lobbyist Susan Hirschmann — one of Hilleary’s top political advisor [...]

Debate over ethics reform appears to have stalled in the General Assembly with Senate Majority Leader Ron Ramsey and other Republicans refusing to consider a $20,000 limit for individual donors in an election cycle and instead attacking Democrats over small-dollar cash contributions at campaign chili suppers and bar-b-ques. The most heated d [...]

Republican Senate candidate Van Hilleary appears to be Tennessee’s chief beneficiary of political action committees controlled by indicted former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. Hilleary, a former congressman and gubernatorial candidate has received more than $17,000 from DeLay since 1994. Former Congressman Ed Bryant, who’s opposi [...]

From the Chattanooga Times Free Press: Several Tennessee and Georgia politicians accepted campaign donations from indicted former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s national political action committee, whose executive director is under Texas state indictments for an alleged scheme involving another DeLay PAC. Records show S [...]

The American Progress Action Fund's Daily Report is a good source of news and information on Washington. The lead item in today's email dispatch: Shortly after Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) was criminally indicted and forced to step down from his post as House Majority Leader, New York Times columnist David Brooks [...]

U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas has been indicted for conspiracy in a campaign finance scheme, forcing him to temporarily step down from his leadership post. DeLay, one of the GOP's leading national figures, dismissed the charges as baseless and politically motivated. DeLay's indictment reverberated in federal [...]

Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Bob Tuke submitted final recommendations on ethics reform to the General Assembly’s Joint Legislative Committee on Ethics. The Party’s recommendations focused primarily on campaign finance limits and disclosure. “Campaign finance is a critical but manageable area of ethics reform that both parties ca [...]

Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Bob Tuke on August 18 called on the State Republican Party, and individual candidates and political action committees, to turn down any contributions that might be transferred from the campaign account and PAC of newly hired Pfizer lobbyist Tre Hargett. Hargett’s individu [...]

During August 9 testimony before the General Assembly’s Joint Legislative Committee on Ethics, Democratic Party Chairman Bob Tuke called for tightening up the State’s campaign finance laws to place greater limits on political contributions — particularly cash contributions — and to require more frequent financial disclosures by indiv [...]

The Tennessee Republican Party, under the leadership of state representative and former party chairwoman Beth Halteman-Harwell, violated federal campaign finance law by misusing more than $335,000 in political contributions, according to documents released yesterday by the Federal Election Commission. The FEC said an audit [...]