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		<title>Tom DeLay to Tango on &#8216;Dancing With The Stars&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2009/09/28/tom-delay-to-tango-on-dancing-with-the-stars/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC';Tom DeLay is back Monday night to do the Tango for the second round of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Dancing with the Stars.&#8221; 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&#8217;s producers have exchanged DeLay&#8217;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&#8217;s green dress. On his Facebook page today, DeLay wrote: &#8220;Tonite is another big nite! I think I am ready. Four days to learn the tango but I at least know the steps. The Tango is aggressive and arrogant and all of you know those are hard for me. Well maybe I can fake it.&#8221; (And yes, this is the same DeLay who as House Majority Leader was nicknamed the &#8220;Hammer&#8221; for his tough political style, so his reference to faking it is obviously tongue-in-cheek.) &#8220;Dancing with the Stars,&#8221; has the &#8216;Vote early and often&#8217; philosophy. &#8216;Vote Early&#8217; because viewers can vote for any of the dancers as soon as the first contestant starts on the show. &#8220;Vote often&#8221; because viewers can vote for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tom DeLay, Ready to Cha-Cha in a Medium Heel and Rhinestones on &#8216;Dancing With the Stars&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2009/09/21/tom-delay-ready-to-cha-cha-in-a-medium-heel-and-rhinestones-on-dancing-with-the-stars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2009/09/21/tom-delay-ready-to-cha-cha-in-a-medium-heel-and-rhinestones-on-dancing-with-the-stars/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC';LOS ANGELES &#8211; Tom DeLay and Cheryl Burke are in a dance studio in a seedy strip mall for a final private rehearsal of the two dances they&#8217;ll perform on Monday&#8217;s live premiere of &#8220;Dancing With the Stars.&#8221; The unlikely duo &#8212; DeLay, 62, the former Republican House majority leader known as the &#8220;Hammer&#8221; and Burke, 25, a professional dancer and two-time winner of the ABC hit show &#8212; are smooth partners. Their two dance routines are funny and perfectly choreographed by Burke. DeLay found out on Friday that the producers have slotted him to perform last of all the eight male contestants on Monday&#8217;s show, which airs at 8 p.m. Eastern (7 p.m. Central). He said he doesn&#8217;t know how the lineup was determined, but thinks it will add to his nerves to have to wait through all the other performances. For his dance, DeLay will perform the cha-cha to a fun song that was a hit in the &#8217;60s. To avoid spoiling the show on Monday, I&#8217;m not disclosing the song, but DeLay described the choreography &#8212; which Burke created &#8212; as the story of his college years. (If you are imagining air guitar and moves that might necessitate knee pads, you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tom DeLay, Playing Hurt on DWTS: &#8216;I&#8217;ll Dance Until the Bone Breaks&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2009/09/18/tom-delay-playing-hurt-on-dwts-ill-dance-until-the-bone-breaks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2009/09/18/tom-delay-playing-hurt-on-dwts-ill-dance-until-the-bone-breaks/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC';LOS ANGELES &#8212; With only three days left until the live premiere of &#8220;Dancing With the Stars,&#8221; Tom DeLay is sitting on a balcony in Los Angeles icing his injured foot after a day of rehearsals. He says he&#8217;s determined to dance on Monday and in all possible future rounds, despite what he&#8217;s calling a &#8220;pre-stress&#8221; fracture in his foot: &#8220;I&#8217;ll dance until the bone breaks,&#8221; he declares. As for the routine, he insists he&#8217;s not at all nervous after all the rehearsals; on Thursday, his professional partner, Cheryl Burke, told him their routine is ready for prime time. DeLay, the Republican former majority leader of the House, is the first politician to be on the popular ABC dance show. He has been in Los Angeles for a couple weeks leading up to the show&#8217;s debut. When DeLay was the House whip, I worked for him as his press secretary and then his communications director. I flew to Los Angeles late Thursday from Washington, D.C., to cover the story for Politics Daily, and right after getting my rental car, called DeLay to hear how the he was feeling. On Tuesday, DeLay had been examined by Dr. Robert Bray, who explained that the pain he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo News: The Hammer does the hustle</title>
		<link>http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2009/08/31/yahoo-news-the-hammer-does-the-hustle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2009/08/31/yahoo-news-the-hammer-does-the-hustle/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC';Who knew former Representative Tom DeLay, aka &#8220;The Hammer,&#8221; had such a sense of humor? Such debonair dancing skills? Such grace under legal pressure? Jaws hit the floor earlier this month when ABC announced that Tom DeLay, the ex-GOP majority leader of the House of Representatives, would be a contestant on the next &#8220;Dancing with the Stars.&#8221; To say that it&#8217;s a surprise next move for someone who left Congress in 2006 under a legal cloud would be a mild understatement. In 2005, DeLay was indicted on conspiracy charges related to a campaign-finance probe; the case is still pending. Conrad Green, the show&#8217;s executive producer, told the L.A. Times that &#8220;we wanted someone sort of iconic and who the audience would have strong feelings about.&#8221; ABC has now released photos of DeLay and partner Cheryl Burke&#8220;practicing,&#8221; (or, Cheryl dancing while DeLay stands with his arms held out.) But according to friends and family, DeLay indeed has the dancing chops to be on the show. Politics Daily&#8217;s Emily Miller, who worked for the former representative, confirms &#8220;first-hand that DeLay, 62, can cut a rug.&#8221; Miller interviewed DeLay&#8217;s wife, Christine, who said that her husband can two-step, polka, waltz, country swing and &#8230; disco. (You read right: The Hammer can DISCO.) DeLay [...]]]></description>
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