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The weekend included a late-night party Saturday in DeLay's suite at the Rio Hotel and Casino, which featured a living room, bar and hot tub on the balcony. DeLay was not present, aides said; the event was hosted by his daughter, Dani Ferro, the campaign manager for DeLay's reelection campaign. After the party, Ferro told associates that a lobbyist poured champagne on her while she was in the hot tub.
I think that a person has the right to have champagne poured on her by any person she admits in her hot tub, and your editors generally deem such behavior to be hott. But to say that it's at least eyebrow raising for the daugher of the House Majority Leader (then Majority Whip) to go all Paris Hilton on a crew of lobbyists during a paid Vegas vacation is an understatement, given that this is the least irreputable of the corruption charges that have been generated since that story broke way back in 2000, and DeLay has only increased the holdings of his Sugar Land crime syndicate in the intervening 5 years.
In other words: How can it possibly have taken this long to nab him, and what transparency rules can we change to correct the structural problem at hand? It doesn't go away when DeLay does.
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