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"Being called partisan and vindictive by Tom DeLay is like being called ugly by a frog."
-- District Attorney Ronnie Earle
Mr. Earle, of course, is the man who got the indictments on Congressman Tom DeLay. That juicy quote came from a nice background piece in The Washington Post by Juliet Eilperin and Mark Leibovich titled "In Texas, The Hammer Runs Into an Anvil". The man is known as a maverick and idealist, who has made it something of a mission in his life to root out bad money in politics, quoted on film:
"The root of all evil truly is money.... People talk about how money is the mother's milk of politics. Well, it's the devil's brew. And what we've got to do, we've got to turn off the tap."
In uber-capitalist America, that may not play so well, and the DeLay defense is apparently looking to undermine the charges by attacking the prosecutor. What is most worrisome in this regard, though, is the fact that Mr. Earle does... yoga! Yoga may be fine in wine-cooler sipping regions of this country, but it does not play well in Texas:
"It doesn't help that Earle is an avid practitioner of yoga, which renders him, to say the least, exotic among Texas politicians -- at least in his willingness to admit it."
Monk winced when he read about this yoga practice. The DeLay case promises to be a close one, indeed!
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"Being called partisan and vindictive by Tom DeLay is like being called ugly by a frog."
-- District Attorney Ronnie Earle
Mr. Earle, of course, is the man who got the indictments on Congressman Tom DeLay. That juicy quote came from a nice background piece in The Washington Post by Juliet Eilperin and Mark Leibovich titled "In Texas, The Hammer Runs Into an Anvil". The man is known as a maverick and idealist, who has made it something of a mission in his life to root out bad money in politics, quoted on film:
"The root of all evil truly is money.... People talk about how money is the mother's milk of politics. Well, it's the devil's brew. And what we've got to do, we've got to turn off the tap."
In uber-capitalist America, that may not play so well, and the DeLay defense is apparently looking to undermine the charges by attacking the prosecutor. What is most worrisome in this regard, though, is the fact that Mr. Earle does... yoga! Yoga may be fine in wine-cooler sipping regions of this country, but it does not play well in Texas:
"It doesn't help that Earle is an avid practitioner of yoga, which renders him, to say the least, exotic among Texas politicians -- at least in his willingness to admit it."
Monk winced when he read about this yoga practice. The DeLay case promises to be a close one, indeed!
