From: "Steve Ewing" 

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:27:17 -0500, John Cuccia  wrote:

> David Broder's latest column is interesting, maintaining that Delay,
> since he is a Texas politician, comes by his propensity for
> quid-pro-quo politics honestly (so to speak).
> The column further claims that Delay's model for his K Street Project
> was Texas' corrupt good ole boy patronage system.


Off the web (I have this quote in one of her books, but I'm too lazy to look for it):
...the old Texas legislator's creed, via Molly Ivins: "If you can't
take their money, drink their liquor, screw their women and still vote
against
'em, you don't belong in the Lege."

--
Steve 
http://www.qmss.com/~sewing

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