Lobbyist and former Perry chief of staff Mike Toomey was added yesterday as a defendant in a lawsuit against the Texas Association of Business, Texans for Lawsuit Reform and Texans for a Republican Majority, or ‘TRMPAC,’ or ‘DeLay’s big fat foster baby.’

New documents show that Toomey was a big-time player and fundraiser for TAB during the 2002 Texas elections. Sometimes, he even had donor checks sent directly to him, mostly because the group was afraid that Bill Hammond would cash the checks and spend them on all-you-can-eat baby back ribs at Bennigan’s.

In a deposition filed in Travis County District Court in July, Toomey claims that he simply collaborated with the business groups to help them coordinate direct mailings attacking Texas Democrats. “There were discussions about, you know, what different groups were doing,” Toomey said. “I don’t know who ultimately determined what would go in the mailers.”

He did admit that he “might have been consulted” on how the groups spent the $1.7 million in corporate donations. “It wouldn’t surprise me if I was.” It wouldn’t SURPRISE YOU? You CAN’T REMEMBER? That’s like me looking back on my life saying that I “might have blogged” at some point and “It wouldn’t surprise me if I had.”

Never mind the fact that Toomey shook down his personal lobbying clients to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars; he’s also claiming temporary memory loss saying that he “can’t remember” and “he wasn’t aware” and “he was drunk at the time and doesn’t really hate the Jews.”