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A documentary about the Texas criminal investigation that led to the indictment of Representative Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader, on campaign fund-raising charges is being put to use by Mr. DeLay's political opponents. It was Mr. Earle's argument, in the indictment, that Mr. DeLay had engineered the Republican takeover of the Texas legislature in 2002 by breaking a state law banning companies from donating to individual candidates. It is the film's argument that Mr. DeLay had a grander purpose in mind using the newly Republican-run legislature to redraw the state's Congressional map, erasing five seats held by Democrats despite Republican majorities, causing a 10-vote shift in the House, and thereby giving Republicans a solid majority with which to enact corporate-friendly federal legislation. A documentary about the Texas criminal investigation which led to the indictment of Representative Tom DeLay, who is the former House majority leader, on campaign fund-raising charges is being put to use by Mr. DeLay's political opponents in an attempt to bring down him. The distribution strategy is to be detailed on the primary day in Texas as a token of welcome gift to Mr. DeLay, he said. Mr. DeLay's lawyer, Dick DeGuerin, called the movie, an early version of which he had seen, a hatchet job, and said he had refused to sit down with the filmmakers for an interview.