Texas DA Takes on Delay in Campaign Probe

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- After years of going after some of the biggest names in Texas politics, District Attorney Ronnie Earle reckoned 2004 would be the year he would retire.

Then Earle found himself in charge of a campaign-finance investigation that has set off tremors from Austin to Washington. Calling it the most important investigation of his nearly 30-year career as D.A., the Democrat decided to stay on, and got himself re-elected in November to another four-year term.

That, of course, may have set off even more tremors.

So far, Earle's two-year-old probe has led to the indictment of three associates of Republican U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas and eight corporations. It also has stirred rampant speculation at the state Capitol over who among the legislators might be next.

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