One Company Wooed DeLay a Bit Too Late

• By Kate Ackley
• Roll Call Staff
• Feb. 27, 2006, Midnight

Rent-A-Center, the nation’s largest rent-to-own business, entered the political action committee scene last year much the way its customers embark on the process of buying furniture and appliances: tepidly, with small amounts of cash, in the hope that over time the investment will pay off.