christian grantham
Christian Grantham was a student activist in the late 90s and later was a consultant to domestic policy forums for the Clinton Administration as well as events for HRC and GLAAD.
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March 29, 2005

Only Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay would call the House Ethics Committee partisan. Republicans and Democrats on the committee voted unanimously to admonish him several times for lapses in ethics and judgment. Now he is the target of multiple investigations into corruption.

A liberal advocacy group has called a Wednesday press conference to unveil its new anti-Tom-DeLay advertisement. The Campaign for America's Future said the new ad, which will run in DeLay's home district, will urge Congress to "wash its hands" of the House majority leader.

The ad accuses DeLay of using the "personal tragedy of Terri Schiavo to divert attention from corruption charges against him," the group said.

DeLay, a Texas Republican, says the corruption allegations against him are baseless, and he has accused congressional Democrats and their allies of using the House Ethics Committee "as a partisan tool for partisan ends."
[Political Ad Targets Tom DeLay - CNSnews - 03-29-05]

While Tom DeLay was busy leading his party's use of Terri Schiavo as a lifeless shield, threatening the judiciary with prison and attacking the "sacred institution of marriage," the rest of America saw an act of political desperation. Let's hope the Republican Party has finally had enough of this man misrepresenting the party's better senses.

IT seems most people, no matter their political affiliation or even the intensity of their religious convictions, think that Terri Schiavo should not have a feeding tube reinserted and that President Bush, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Republicans in Congress shouldn't have intervened in the matter. That's what a variety of polls are telling us, anyway.

Has the public finally lost patience with the socially conservative convictions of the present-day Republican Party? Has the GOP become so moralistic that the American people simply can't take it any longer?
[Too Public A Death - NY POST - 03-29-05]