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Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, tainted by a lobbying scandal that ensnared some of his former top aides and cost the congressman his leadership post, told MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Monday night that he will not seek re-election to Congress.
Rep. DeLay was expected to announce the plans Tuesday, said Matthews, host of MSNBC's “Hardball.”
The Associated Press quoted unnamed officials as saying DeLay also is likely to resign his Texas seat and leave Congress by the end of May.
Matthews said that DeLay told him in an interview that “the polling on him in the 22nd District was going down,” as a result of his part in a campaign contribution controversy.
A Texas grand jury indicted DeLay on Sept. 28 on the charge of criminally conspiring with two associates to use illegal corporate contributions in Texas state elections in 2002, in a bid to aid the Republican Party shift the congressional map in Texas and solidify control of the House of Representatives for the GOP. Federal prosecutors also are investigating DeLay’s ties to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff. DeLay has denied any wrongdoing in both cases.
“He (DeLay) expected to take a beating all summer on this,” Matthews said. “I guess he felt the beating was going to continue.”
DeLay defeated three other Republicans to win his March 7 primary. His replacement will be selected by the Texas Republican state central committee. The second-place finisher in the primary was lawyer Tom Campbell.
Several officials said DeLay, an 11-term congressman, called Texas members of Congress to tell them he was abandoning his re-election race.
“He’ll resign,” a former senior DeLay aide added.
‘A little too risky’In an interview with The Galveston County Daily News in Texas, DeLay said his decision was based partly on troubling internal polling results, including a poll taken after the March Republican primary that showed him narrowly ahead of Lampson.
“Even though I thought I could win, it was a little too risky,” DeLay told the Galveston paper.
The congressman told Time magazine Monday that he plans to make his Virginia condominium his primary residence. “I can do more on the outside of the House than I can on the inside right now. I want to continue to fight for the conservative cause. I want to continue to work for a Republican majority,” DeLay told the magazine for its online edition.
House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, called his predecessor “one of the most effective and gifted leaders the Republican Party has ever known.”
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