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Published: 11/23/09

Tom DeLay to Two-Step on 'Dancing With the Stars' Finale

By  Emily Miller - Politics Daily
Tom DeLay to Two-Step on 'Dancing With the Stars' Finale

Tom DeLay will be dancing the Texas Two-Step with Cheryl Burke on the season finale of "Dancing With the Stars" Tuesday night. Last month, DeLay had to drop out of the popular TV dance competition after three weeks because of stress fractures in both of his feet. Now fully healed, the former House majority leader is back in Los Angeles to dance on Tuesday's results show on ABC at 9 p.m. EST. "I'm so excited to dance," Delay happily told me on the phone during rehearsals with Burke. ". . . I'm much more comfortable now that I'm not competing." While the other former candidates will do ...

Published: 10/6/09

Tom DeLay Drops Out of 'Dancing With the Stars' Due to Injury

By  Emily Miller - Politics Daily
Tom DeLay Drops Out of 'Dancing With the Stars' Due to Injury

Viewers of ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" were shocked Tuesday night when Tom DeLay announced that because of stress fractures in both feet, he was leaving the show. Earlier, DeLay and his professional dance partner, Cheryl Burke, looked stunned to hear that their samba the previous night, on his injured feet, had garnered enough viewer votes to make them "safe" to go to the next round. DeLay told me in an interview before the show's premiere that despite the pre-stress fracture in one foot, "I'll dance until the bone breaks." In the past week, the pre-stress fracture was diagnosed as a ...

Published: 09/28/09

Tom DeLay to Tango on 'Dancing With The Stars'

By  Emily Miller - Politics Daily
Tom DeLay to Tango on 'Dancing With The Stars'

Tom DeLay is back Monday night to do the Tango for the second round of ABC's "Dancing with the Stars." The former Texas Republican is dancing against 13 remaining male and female contestants on the live show, which airs at 8 p.m. EDT.The show's producers have exchanged DeLay's unfortunate brown sequined costume from last week for a black suit with green pinstripes paired with a black shirt and green tie to match his partner Cheryl Burke's green dress.On his Facebook page today, DeLay wrote: "Tonite is another big nite! I think I am ready. Four days to learn the tango but I at least know the ...

Published: 09/22/09

Dancing Tom DeLay on Infighting in the 'Leaderless' GOP: 'Even Rush and Hannity Are Doing It'

By  Emily Miller - Politics Daily
Dancing Tom DeLay on Infighting in the 'Leaderless' GOP: 'Even Rush and Hannity Are Doing It'

LOS ANGELES -- Walking out of a restaurant in Los Angeles last week, the former House Majority Leader was stopped by a stranger. "Aren't you Tom DeLay?" the man asked. "Yes, I am." "I am so glad you are out of politics," the man crowed. "Well, so am I," he replied; who says common ground is hard to find? ...

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