DeLay appearance cost Fox $14,000

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DeLay appearance cost Fox $14,000
Chartered jet ferried just-indicted politician to Washington studio last fall.
By Chuck Lindell


DeLay appearance cost Fox $14,000
Chartered jet ferried just-indicted politician to Washington studio last fall.
By Chuck Lindell
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF

Friday, January 27, 2006

Four days after U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay's stunning indictment last September in Travis County, the political talk show "Fox News Sunday" trumpeted an exclusive interview with the combative Texas Republican.

Unsaid, but revealed in documents DeLay later filed in the U.S. House, was that DeLay's Oct. 2 appearance cost Fox News $14,000.

The money rented a private jet to ferry DeLay from a small airport near his Sugar Land home to Fox studios in Washington. The next day, after engaging in a give and take with host Chris Wallace, DeLay and his Capitol Police security detail were flown back to suburban Houston.

It's a great way to travel — no security lines, no connecting flights and awesome legroom.

Three weeks after DeLay's Fox appearance, for example, the former House majority leader traveled to his mugshot-and-fingerprint appointment in Houston aboard an R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. jet — one of 100 trips DeLay has taken on corporate jets in the past six years, tops in Congress, The Associated Press has reported.

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/01/27delayfox.html

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1. More reason for this pissant excuse of a congressman to do time.

Hard Time.