One Down, 434 to Go

Julian Sanchez | September 28, 2005

Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) has been indicted on conspiracy charges and stepped down as majority leader:

A grand jury in Austin charged DeLay, 58, and two associates already facing criminal charges with a single count of criminal conspiracy, accusing them of improperly funneling corporate donations to a DeLay-founded political action committee to Republican candidates for the Texas Legislature in 2002.

UPDATE: And it looks like closet heterosexual Rep. David Dreier (R-Calif.) is going to be stepping in for him. (Though Dreier still only gets a 22 percent rating from Human Rights Campaign, a gay-rights group.) Never mind, looks like it's Blunt.