So Delay is running this charade, pointing out how the judges he's getting have made political contributions. My response is WTF. Try getting elected judge in Texas without having a party's help. So Perkins was bad because because he gave to MoveOn & the Democratic Party? Schraub was bad because he gave to Perry? Fine, but don't be getting all pissy because they legally gave money to candidates, unlike yourself, Mr. Delay.

You want the Supreme Court to appoint your judge? Uh-oh, we've got a problem there. I mean, Wallace Jefferson, the Chief Justice, gave $1,600 to the Harris County Republicans. Doesn't CD-22 have a chunk of Harris County in it? There's a conflict of interest. What about Jefferson's colleagues on the Supreme Court? Well...

-Dale Wainwright gave to the Harris County Republicans, as well as the Bay Area Republican Women, which are located smack dab in Delay's district.
-Scott Brister gave $12,000 to the Harris County Republican Party and $5,000 to the Vinson & Elkins PAC
-Paul Green gave to Republicans in Fort Bend County; a.k.a. Tom Delay country.
-Don Willett gave to Perry & Greg Abbott, a couple folks fairly involved in the redistricting debacle.
-Phil Johnson gave to the Texas Federation Of Republican Women Pac (and Rahul Mahajan; didn't he run for guv in '02 for the Green Party?, that's got to be a different Phil Johnson).
(From the Texas Ethics Commission)

Anyways, my point isn't that these folks are dirty because they gave money to a political group. It's their right to be able to give to whomever they want as long as they do it legally. Delay pointing fingers at legal contributions is horseshit...there's a difference in following the law and outright breaking it, which is what he did. Quit with the stalling and the shenanigans, let's have a trial & see how guilty you really are.

Update: The Statesman, is reporting that Texans for Public Justice have discovered that

Chief Justice Wallace B. Jefferson, asked to name a trial judge for the DeLay case, shared the same campaign treasurer and consultant as DeLay's Texans for a Republican Majority. One of his largest campaign donations -- $25,000 --was from the arm of the Republican National Committee that's at the center of the allegation that DeLay and his co-defendants laundered corporate money into political donations in 2002.

Seriously folks, for a casual observer, politics is the cheapest form of entertainment. I love this stuff.