True Believer

The LA Times has a nice profile of Ronnie Earle, the Travis County District Attorney investigating Tom Delay and friends for campaign finance improprieties. Far from being a liberal partisan, Earle is painted as someone who sincerely sees corporate campaign contributions (which are illegal in Texas) as a threat to democracy. The paper also notes that of the fifteen prosecutions of political officials Earle has instituted in his many years as DA, twelve of the defendants were Democrats.