Is Alabama the Cayman

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Is Alabama the Cayman Islands of the political money-laundering racket? Tom DeLay sure seemed to think so. Seems the Hammer set up a special Alabama division of ARMPAC which bagged $750,000 of contributions from out of state and then shipped all but $11,000 back out.

All perfectly legal, it seems. At least, legal in terms of not bringing in or dishing out any of the money in the state. But an interesting rock to turn over. And Tommy Stevenson of the Tuscaloosa News turns over a few of them here.

Remember the Arabian Horse outfit Brownie worked at before he went on to bigger and better things running FEMA? They must have still been thanking their lucky stars for Brownie’s services because they chipped in $15,000 just before the 2002 election when DeLay was burning through cash trying to flip the Texas state legislature.

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