3 Houston TV Stations Drop DeLay Ads Under Pressure

[kerrygoddess]

3 Houston TV Stations Drop DeLay Ads Under Pressure
January 12th, 2006

An update from my earlier piece on The Campaign for America’s Future ad campaign against Reps. Tom Delay and Bob Ney. DeLay had threatened to sue any TV Stations that ran the ads, 3 Houston stations have dropped the ads under pressure…

3 Houston TV Stations Refuse DeLay Ads

The ads were to start Wednesday and run for one week. But the DeLay campaign sent letters to the stations threatening legal action, saying the spots are deliberately misleading.

“The ad is reckless, malicious, and false, casting Mr. DeLay in a false light by accusing him of unsubstantiated criminal conduct,” DeLay campaign lawyer Don McGahn wrote the stations. “We demand that you refuse or otherwise cease airing the advertisement.”

MORE & LINKS - http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=1628

Earlier post on this with links to the ads - http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=1623

[quaoar]

1. DeLay is bluffing

But the TV stations have no balls.

My reply would have been:

"You want to sue? Go ahead, motherfuckers. Bring it on!"

That's why you have lawyers on retainer.

Does DeLay really want to go to court over that? Does he really want the issue of whether he is a crook to be fair game in a civil proceeding? I think not.

[Erika]

2. DeLay is a Joke

His party abandoned him completely. But evidently his ego is still there.

[punpirate]

3. Hmm, it seems that ol'...

... Tom DeCay hasn't yet figured out that the next free lunch he's going to get is going to be in prison. He's got some money in his emergency defense fund (last I heard, about $500,000), but his lawyers in the Texas case are going to blow through that pretty quickly. He's going to get all jammed up in the Abramoff business--of that there is no doubt--if only because of the Saipan sweat shops business, and if his campaign also has to pay for suits against television stations for running campaign ads (it is the campaign season, is it not?), he's going to be in a financial hole too deep to climb out of.

His backers are running away from him now--and that will include his legal defense fund, if only because he's starting to smell real bad and he'll be virtually unelectable if the news keeps up through spring the way it has now. He's already starting to tank in polls in normally safe Sugar Land. The `pugs just don't put their money down on a losing horse.

Too bad the TV stations didn't figure that out.