Did Earle Provide The Perfect Ending To The Next Fahrenheit 911?
Byron York has a column at NRO about a documentary called “The Big Buy” about Tom Delay, corporations and Texas politics. Ronnie Earle allowed “extraordinary access” to the documentary filmmakers.
The film, according to the description, “follows maverick Austin DA Ronnie Earle’s investigation into what really happened when corporate money joined forces with relentless political ambitions to help swing the pivotal 2002 Texas elections, cementing Republican control from Austin to Washington DC.”
Isn’t it funny that Democrats think that the only reason Republicans are successful in Texas is due to corporate money or redistricting. Redistricting done by Democrats years ago was the only thing that kept them competitive in the state for many years. Do they not realize that Texas is full of tough, independent, religious, pro-military, pledge of allegiance reciting, meat-eating cowboy types that don’t like to vote for people who want to take all their money and then tell them what they can and can’t do?
So far, The Big Buy has received almost no attention in the press. With DeLay’s indictment, and increased attention to Earle as well, that situation seems likely to change. (The filmmakers say they will be back at work next week, filming a new ending to the picture.) “We’re pretty low on everybody’s radar,” Schermbeck says. “We kind of took a gamble three years ago. We didn’t know what was going to happen. We feel like, as documentary filmmakers, we gambled and it paid off.”
It sounds to me like Ronnie Earle might have just given them the ending their film needed. I wonder if they will come back and film a new documentary if the Delay case turns out the way the Kay Bailey Hutchison case did with Earle basically saying “Never mind.” Or maybe they could have done a documentary on all those Democrats we keep hearing that Earle indicted.
UPDATE: From Candy in the comments thread:
I already had a recording on my voicemail today from someone calling herself “We the People”, falsely claiming Delay was indicted for conspiracy to commit “money laundering” and urging me to call my Indiana Congressman and demand he return $10,000 of “tainted money” received from Tom Delay, this when nothing in the indictment has anything to do with donations to any candidates outside of Texas.
This is not the first I have heard of this. Has anyone else received any of these calls?
— Lorie Byrd