"No one would call me a fan of Tom DeLay, but I will say that three years in prison is manifestly unfair. I carefully reviewed DeLay's background when I ran against him, and people were only too happy to tell me of his shortcomings. But what I found in DeLay was a zealot willing to blur the line in pursuit of what he thought to be a good cause, not someone using his office to seek financial gain. There were no personal slush funds, no house remodeled by a lobbyist, no unreported vacation home. He was only trying to build our party."
Tom Campbell - The case for pardoning Tom DeLay
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