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Hat tip to Blogenfreude Update: Oct. 20, 2005, 11:30PM

DeLay all smiles for photo at booking

With arrest unavoidable, his lawyer wrangles to show positive image of client

By R.G. RATCLIFFE and ROSANNA RUIZ Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay's booking photograph on conspiracy and money-laundering charges Thursday looked more like a campaign glossy than the mug shot of someone accused of felonies preparing to make his first court appearance.

DeLay wears a suit and a winning smile. There are no height hash marks in the background, no numbers across the chest of the Sugar Land Republican.

Here we go, much better. Thanks Zwam & MBall