Edwin Buckham paid Christine DeLay

The Washington Post tells us that Tom DeLay's PAC, ARMPAC, has finally ceased operations. My recently emerging theme is to tie everything back to Ed Buckham, and I was prepared to do that again, but the WaPo beats me to the punch:

ARMPAC also helped precipitate DeLay's fall. In the late 1990s, the PAC was run out of a Capitol Hill townhouse that housed a lobbying firm and a questionable non-profit, both of which were run by lobbyist Edwin Buckham, a former chief of staff to DeLay. For several years Buckham's firm employed DeLay's wife, paying her more than $100,000 for what has been widely considered undefined work.

Several years later, the FBI and Justice Department began investigating DeLay's connections to now imprisoned lobbyist Jack Abramoff. To date, the investigation has yielded guilty pleas by Abramoff, two former aides to DeLay, ex-Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio), two former Ney aides and a former Interior Department official, among others. Abramoff's and Buckham's clients became major donors to ARMPAC in the late 1990s as well as to non-profits run by the two lobbyists, sometimes with fund-raising help from DeLay.

I'm curious how much ARMPAC's donor list overlaps with the clients of Abramoff and Buckham. Unfortunately, I'm not curious enough to go digging for that information.

And just how did DeLay help Buckham with his fundraising efforts? That's news to me, I think.