Boehner Bides Time, Aids DeLay

• By Ben Pershing
• Roll Call Staff
• Oct. 25, 2005, Midnight

While Rep. John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) allies privately debate whether he should mount a challenge to temporary Majority Leader Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) in January, Boehner quietly cut a $5,000 check earlier this month to the legal defense fund of the man he could seek to permanently replace, indicted Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas).