Indictment couldn't happen to a nicer guy

Or, at least, to his political front group

The Hammer himself yet officially in legal trouble, but his political action committee now is.

Here’s the money grafs:

AdvertisementThe charge against Texans for a Republican Majority alleged the committee illegally accepted a political contribution of $100,000 from the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care.

Four indictments against the Texas Association of Business include charges of unlawful political advertising, unlawful contributions to a political committee and unlawful expenditures such as those to a graphics company and political candidates.

Let’s see the sputtering indignation on TV news this evening and weekend.

Update:
The Dallas Morning News shifts emphasis on the story to name the Texas Association of Business as the primary culprit.

In a technical sense, that might be journalistically understandable, as it was indicted on four counts, compared to TRMPAC’s one.

But, we all know who initiated this idea. He gets named in a one-sentence graf, one graf after the TRMPAC initial mention. And this is a News-generated story, not the AP, so it had time to at least try to get a quote from the Hammer. Maybe later, maybe not.

Update from Josh Marshall:

I'M TOLD TOMORROW'S Congress Daily says Tom DeLay has now acknowledged he met voluntarily last month with Travis County DA Ronnie Earle about the TRMPAC case.