Debunking the Tom Delay Acquittal

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Sept. 21, 2013 - PRLog -- Contact: Chip Hill, chiphill@charter.net 334-332-8225

By: Don Siegelman, Alabama last democratic Governor, 1999-2003
      Now a federal prisoner -June, 2018

Tom Delay was not acquitted because he had the "joy of Jesus" in him but rather because he had two Republican Judges for him.

The facts are the facts: Tom Delay was laundering money to elect state Republican candidates pure and simple.

I know first-hand, personally, what I'm about to tell you is not hearsay.

Tom Delay and his co-conspirators Jack Abramoff and Mike Scanlon helped engineer a money laundering scheme to defeat me in my race for re-election as governor and to elect Karl Rove's and Tom Delay's Republican colleague from the U.S. House, then Congressman Bob Riley.

Public campaign finance disclosure documents in the Alabama Secretary of State's and at the Federal Elections Commission show the flow of legally laundered money.

Now, in Jack Abramoff's book, "Capitol Punishment" he admits for the first time to money laundering to the tune of some $20,000,000 dollars "to stop Siegelman." Abramoff had a duel interest in defeating me. One to befriend Karl Rove and also to please his client, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians who viewed me as a "threat" after my election as Governor in 1998. I was proposing a gaming initiative in Alabama. A lottery to fund free college education. Abramoff says in his book the Alabama lottery would wreck the gambling monopoly of the Choctaws and I had "to be stopped." The Choctaw Indian casinos hired Abramoff, Scanlon, Ralph Reed and Grover Norquist. They "war gamed an aggressive tactic" according to Abramoff "to stop Siegelman...at a cost to the Choctaws of approximately $20,000,000."

Tom Delay was part of the conspiracy to defeat me. The Hammer, in concert with his Republican co-conspirators, began laundering thousands of dollars through his Texas ARMPAC to a front group the Alabama ARMPAC, a political action committee to funnel illegal contributions to my opponent, Tom Delay's colleague and Jack Abramoff and Rove's friend, Congressman Bob Riley. Riley had befriended Abramoff by voting in lock step with Abramoff's clients on multiple congressional votes at a time when Mike Scanlon was first working for Riley as a congressional aide before he changed jobs to work for Delay.

Delay didn't stop with sending illegal funding to my Republican opponent he also funneled money to The Alexandria Group, a lobbying firm with Abramoff and Delay ties. The money coincided with the hiring of a self-described "Ballot Security Expert", a man named Dan Gans. Gans who had been on Riley' staff, was in a remote, South Alabama Republican controlled county the night of my re-election.

After all the votes were in and counted, and after all networks had called the election in my favor.

Then after midnight, the poll watchers and media were sent home. In the basement of the court house a couple of people were still at work in the Sheriff's office. A computer glitch was discovered. A private recount took place to "correct the "computer glitch" giving my opponent just enough votes to be declared the winner. The next morning my margin of victory was erased. I asked for a hand recount of just one voting place. The state attorney general, Karl Rove's client, stepped and stopped the recount. Then contrary to state law, the secretary of state and the attorney general declared my opponent the winner. Dan Gans who then was working for the Tom Delay/Abramoff affiliated Alexandria Group took credit on their website for my defeat as the "Ballot Security Expert" who found the votes to make the Tom Delay's protege the winner.

The Hammer may have the joy of Jesus to thank for his mental tranquility but he must thank his Republican friends for his acquittal.

Contact: Chip Hill, chiphill@charter.net 334-332-8225