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| Chris Bell
Fair play should be a minimal expectation, and the ethics truce prevented Congress from meeting even that low standard. I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas. Texas has a lot of challenges, but if I choose to run I will talk about opening democracy to mainstream Texans and not just to a closed circle of entrenched ideologues. The American people expect public servants to be able to police themselves. But instead of designing a system to enforce ethical conduct, Tom Delay and his cohorts have implemented a self protection system. Obviously, it wasn't good for democracy. The DeLay story struck a nerve with people all across the United States because Tom DeLay put a face to what Walt Whitman called the never-ending audacity of elected persons. Suddenly, they could see corruption up close. |
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