{"id":13930,"date":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/the-problem-is-whats-legal\/"},"modified":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","slug":"el-problema-es-que-es-legal","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/es\/articles\/the-problem-is-whats-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"El problema es qu\u00e9 es legal"},"template":"","class_list":["post-13930","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":8577}"],"related_issues":[137,2082],"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"

El ex l\u00edder de la mayor\u00eda de la C\u00e1mara de Representantes, Tom DeLay, qued\u00f3 al menos temporalmente libre de problemas legales luego de que un tribunal de Texas revocara el jueves su condena por cargos de lavado de dinero.<\/p>

Prosecutors already are promising a new appeal -- good for them -- but the story of what DeLay's friends are hailing as his vindication is really a tale of how thoroughly screwed up our campaign finance system has become.<\/p>

As University of California -- Irvine law professor and political scientist Rick Hasen explica en esta pieza<\/a>, \"the big problem is not what's illegal, but what's legal.\"<\/p>

DeLay ayud\u00f3 a organizar que un comit\u00e9 pol\u00edtico de Texas, Texanos por una Mayor\u00eda Republicana, transfiriera 190.000 d\u00f3lares recaudados de donantes corporativos a una cuenta administrada por el Comit\u00e9 Nacional Republicano en Washington. El RNC, a su vez, devolvi\u00f3 la misma cantidad al grupo texano, proveniente de una cuenta compuesta por donaciones de particulares. Las transferencias permitieron a los tejanos gastar el dinero en apoyar a candidatos a la legislatura estatal y otros cargos estatales, quienes, seg\u00fan la ley de Texas, no pueden aceptar dinero de corporaciones.<\/p>

A jury concluded that was money laundering. But as Hasen explains, the appeals court overturned the verdict -- by a 2-1 vote -- based on testimony from corporate leaders who said they made the donations to court favor with and gain access to DeLay, not to influence elections in Texas.<\/p>

Isn't that something? The court is saying it's perfectly OK to buy access to politicians like you buy access to other services.<\/p>

\u00bfNecesita hablar con un abogado sobre su testamento o con un contador sobre sus impuestos? Haga un cheque. Quiz\u00e1s no puedan ayudarle, pero aun as\u00ed tendr\u00e1 que pagar por su tiempo. \u00bfNecesita hablar con un funcionario electo sobre una exenci\u00f3n fiscal o ayuda para conseguir un contrato con el gobierno? Haga un cheque.<\/p>

Mark Twain ten\u00eda raz\u00f3n. Tenemos el mejor gobierno que el dinero puede comprar.<\/p>"}}]},"yoast_head":"\nThe Problem Is What’s Legal - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/es\/articulos-2\/el-problema-es-que-es-legal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Problem Is What’s Legal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/es\/articulos-2\/el-problema-es-que-es-legal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/the-problem-is-whats-legal\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/the-problem-is-whats-legal\/\",\"name\":\"The Problem Is What’s Legal - 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