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Sapphire Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 04:23 AM
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Now is the moment: DeLay found guilty
From MoveOn PAC...

Now is the moment: DeLay found guilty

Dear MoveOn member,

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's abuse of power has gotten worse and without urgent action he might get away with it. Last week a judge in Texas ruled that a political action committee formed by DeLay was guilty of violating state law by failing to report some $600,000 in corporate contributions that were used to sway Texas elections in 2002. Those 2002 elections were part of a power grab to redraw the congressional district lines in Texas in order to put more Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Tomorrow hundreds of MoveOn members will go to the offices of congressional Republicans and deliver petitions urging them to "Fire Tom DeLay" from his post as majority leader. Please take one minute right now to sign our petition before tomorrow's deadline so we have lots of signatures to deliver, increasing our impact.

http://www.moveonpac.org/pac/delay//index.html

DeLay has already been found guilty three times by the House ethics committee—this time a court has ruled on a fundraising organization he started. Despite these findings he is still in power—deciding which legislation the Congress considers and when.

We need an outpouring of public outrage about this corruption to end DeLay's abuse of power. Some 226 members of Congress have taken money from DeLay. Representatives who aren't beholden to DeLay fear his wrath. He has infamously punished his opponents and their constituents. But if we can show that the American people are fed up with DeLay it will embolden his rivals to push for him to leave power.

We're also going to demonstrate that representatives who continue to help shield DeLay pay a political price. Starting later this week, while members of Congress are still home on break, we'll run radio ads in congressional districts of close associates of DeLay who also are expected to have close elections in 2006. (Look for an e-mail on that tomorrow.)

If Republicans in Congress begin to understand they could lose their next election because of Tom DeLay's abuse of power there is a real chance we could score another win this year: getting Tom DeLay fired as House majority leader—the sort of big news that will make it clear what the Republican leaders in Congress have been up to.

Please sign the petition. Help us top our goal of 500,000 signers before tomorrow's deadline.

http://www.moveonpac.org/pac/delay//index.html


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Ufour20 Donating Member (40 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 09:46 AM
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1. I signed it...
gladly!
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SalmonChantedEvening Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:35 AM
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4. Welcome to DU Ufour20!!
:hi:
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Sapphire Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 01:52 PM
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12. Thanks, and welcome to DU!
:hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi:
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ohtransplant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:08 AM
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2. Signed and forwarded. n/t
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SalmonChantedEvening Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:28 AM
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3. Signed and passed along
:dem:
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renaissanceguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:38 AM
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5. Now he can go serve his jail sentence!
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libodem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 11:33 AM
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6. I heard Tony Snow
RW talk show host mention that De Lay was renewing his exterminator and pest control licence...I wonder if that is a reference to "punishing" his enemies? Wicked people parading around under the guise of exalted saints.
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AmBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 12:32 PM
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7. Yes, and today 40 people delivered a petition
...with hundreds of signatures to my Florida Representative, Bill Young, asking him to fire Tom DeLay. I understand there were somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 of these deliveries made to representatives all around the country today. Nice work!!

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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 12:35 PM
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8. Signed
My so called representative needs to be removed!
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 12:46 PM
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9. Signed, sealed and delivered
And, oh, yeah, Kicked, too!

:kick:
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dxstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 12:59 PM
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10. NO MORE DELAY! DUMP THE CHUMP!
That was the message I attached when I signed the petition; I think this is the third one I've signed to show him the door; hopefully three's the charm...

BIG MAN, PIG MAN!



HA HA! CHARADE YOU ARE!
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 03:54 AM
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20. kick
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dxstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 05:16 AM
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21. Bwaaa-Haaaa-HAAAA!!!
EAT BUGS! WHOOO!
:rofl:
d
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 05:27 AM
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22. That one was old. This one I completed yesterday:
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dxstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 04:32 PM
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26. BEEE-YOOTIFUL!
I'm gonna hafta add a couple more pages of your work to my site soon, ol' bean...
D
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 04:50 PM
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27. Btw
I saw someone referencing your website and posted a pic on the Randi Rhodes MB. I added my recommendation. ;)
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dxstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 05:06 PM
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28. Thanx, pal-ly!
:pals:
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Sapphire Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 01:51 PM
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11. 28,442 more signatures needed to reach 500,000
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Sapphire Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 02:37 PM
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14. 27,525 to go
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Sapphire Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 04:20 PM
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16. 25,918 to go!
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Sapphire Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 05:41 PM
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17. 24,918 to reach 500,000
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Sapphire Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 12:40 PM
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25. 19,885 signatures needed to reach 500,000 - Please sign if you haven't yet
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Neoma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 02:22 PM
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13. Kick.
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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 02:47 PM
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15. Signed Sealed and Delivered To Mr. Tom DeLay
Goodbye to you.... Goodbye to you.....
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BigBearJohn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 06:08 PM
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18. signed
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 03:34 AM
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19. Signed/Kick
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B Calm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 05:45 AM
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23. Proud to say I signed it!
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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 05:54 AM
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24. done n/t
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