Raw Story And NY Times Report: Texas Prosecutor Subpoenas Records Showing DeLay-Blunt Ties

The Washington Post reports that Texas Prosecutor Ronnie Earle has broadened his inquiry into the political and financ

According to the Washington Post story on the guilty plea of former DeLay staffer and Abramoff partner, Michael Scanlon:

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On Friday, the DNC issued a strongly worded press release taking on Majority Leader Roy Blunt

Here's the AP story on the new subpoenas that ask for records relating to Roy Blunt's political committee and the Missouri Republican Party.

Also yesterday, Earle filed subpoenas for Texas bank records for DeLay’s national political committee, Americans for a Republican Majority, or ARMPAC, and records of contributions the committee made to the Missouri Republican Party and the Rely on Your Own Beliefs Fund. The Rely fund is operated by Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Missouri, who took over as majority leader when DeLay was forced to step down in September because of the felony indictments.

An Associated Press report last month, citing campaign documents, said DeLay deliberately raised more money than he needed to throw parties at the 2000 presidential convention, then diverted some of the excess to Blunt.

When the money shifting stopped, the beneficiaries were DeLay’s private charity, a consulting firm that employed DeLay’s wife and the campaign of Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt, Roy Blunt’s son. A aide to the governor told the AP then that some money could have been routed to state candidates. The transactions raise questions about whether donors were deceived or the true destination of their money was concealed.

GOP members are figuring out that Roy Blunt is Tom DeLay lite:  All the corruption, but without the ability to deliver votes.

In a crushing blow to the ethically embattled