DeLay Admits Aiding Texas GOP’s Hunt
U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) acknowledged that his office called the Federal Aviation Administration and the Justice Department to help track down 51 Texas House members who fled the state to derail a GOP congressional redistricting plan.
The Democrats left Austin on May 11. Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick, a Republican, asked DeLay for help in locating the plane of former state House Speaker Pete Laney, a Democrat, which some lawmakers used to reach Ardmore, Okla.
A DeLay aide gave the Laney airplane’s tail number to the FAA, which reported where the plane had taken off and landed.
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