take19 - TAKEN!!!

Now that one of Sue's biggest patrons, indicted Rep. Tom DeLay, has abandoned his hopes of returning to his leadership position amid an ever-growing scandal, it's time to ask this question once again: will Sue finally decide to return the more than $12,000 she's taken from his disgraced political action committee, ARMPAC?

Yesterday, even before DeLay resigned, Virginia Rep. Jo Ann Davis announced that she was donating the $10,000 she received from ARMPAC to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. We're pretty sure they would readily accept the $12,020 that Sue has taken from DeLay and put it to good use.

While we realize that Sue has been very close to DeLay, particularly recently, and has even voted with him 90% of the time over the past 18 months, the number of questions involving ARMPAC continue to grow.

As constituents, it's embarrassing enough that Sue took this money in the first place, while claiming to be a moderate. It was embarrassing when Sue voted to weaken the ethics rules so that DeLay could keep his leadership post. But the gig's up so to speak. We've asked (nicely) three times now: how much longer do we have to wait?