What is your representative's DeLay Ranking?

[pegkerr]

The Public Action Campaign Fund has created a nifty little table to analyze some figures as follows:

Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has been indicted for money laundering and conspiracy. He's the face of big money corruption. But to his colleagues in Congress, he's a true sugar daddy. Everybody "owes Mr. DeLay for something—a job, a piece of legislation, or a large campaign contribution," says The New York Times. We've created a ranking based on how often they vote the way DeLay does, how much DeLay's PAC contributed to them, how much they've contributed to DeLay's legal defense fund, and so on.

Check out YOUR Congressional representative's DeLay ranking here:

Comments

[chance88088.livejournal.com]

Woo! My state (Massachusetts) is pretty much 100% clean!

[ckd]

Yeah, and the only points against are for voting with DeLay. Even though they exclude "non-controversial votes", I have to think that DeLay was accidentally on the right side at least a small percentage of the time, if only because sometimes I agree with people with money to give him.... (My guy was second-best in the state and #412 of 435, yay Capuano!)

[silme.livejournal.com]

Okay, two of the top ones are from Colorado (ones I'd not vote for), but Mark Udall (Mo's nephew) who represents Boulder, Colorado, received 0 from DeLay. Of course, Udall's a Democrat.

(I live in the UK, but I'm still permitted to vote in US federal elections absentee. Udall's a good guy.)

[dejaspirit.livejournal.com]

Our Republican Mike Castle got $20.00. I can live with that...I voted for him (Shock!) but he was actually more liberal than the Dem running against him. Go figure.

Interesting, though.

[longtimegone]

*facepalm* Three of mine are in the top 25. One in SECOND PLACE. That's just fabulous.

[megd.livejournal.com]

Nice bias there. *shock horror* there were votes along party lines

[jlh.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't think this list would even be trying to be balanced; that isn't the point of it.

Ah, there's my guy Nadler, at almost the bottom of the list. Go Jerry!

[mayakda.livejournal.com]

My congressman is #10.
(I didn't vote for him)

[pameladean]

Holy Toledo, look at that bastard Mark Kennedy and his thirty thousand DeLay dollars!

At least my immediate vicinity is clean.

P.

[psychic-serpent.livejournal.com]

I've got Chaka Fattah, so he's ranked 389 with a handful of other folks. Only votes with DeLay about 9% of the time. I hope he stays in office, he's a good guy. There's talk of his running for mayor and the mayor (who's nearing the end of his second and last term) running for Fattah's seat, but considering how important seniority is in Congress I hope that doesn't happen. We don't need a rookie in there; Congress AND the buffoons in our state capital try to screw our city enough as it is.

[king-tirian.livejournal.com]

I sort of wish they would give negative dollar amounts in the case where DeLay spent money to try to unseat a Representitive. Then we'd see who the true heroes of the revolution are.

I'm pleased that up here in NY only one person is so soft on money laundering that they gave to the legal defense fund. And, hey, let me give a shout out to my good neighbor Sherwood Boehlert who took Tom for $10K and only votes with him 70% of the time.

[orangemike.livejournal.com]

The congresswomen from Milwaukee and Madison are down in the lowest ranks; Cong. Mark Green, who wants to be our next governor, is tied for #8! Pfauggh!

[nmsunbear.livejournal.com]

Well, my much-loathed rep Heather Wilson is only at 51. Better than I expected. Probably because she's not really worth throwing money at.

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

"Minnesota

* took $65,298 from ARMPAC
* took $4,000 from DeLay Campaign Fund
* gave $0 to DeLay Defense Fund
* 1 vote for the DeLay Rule"

My representative, Martin Olav Sabo, ranks 370th and has the lowest DeLay ranking in the state. (The highest is John Kline, what a surprise, not, at #34.)