"Defeat DeLay Every Day"

[Richardo]

I just got this e-mail from Richard Morrison, who ran against DeLay in District 22 last November. He put up a great fight and has an excellent organization.
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Dear Friends,

Tom DeLay is a busy man. He has been busy lately, raising $1million for his legal defense fund, putting his considerable bad influence behind the GOP effort to gut Social Security, and preventing Houston from receiving federal funding for its rail program.

Tom isn't resting and we can't either. We're taking on the "most powerful man in Washington, D.C." and his network of big money powerplayers.

We're launching a new effort called "Defeat DeLay Every Day" by asking supporters to make a small automatically recurring donation to this campaign every month. To do your part to defeat DeLay please click here and select the amount you can afford to contribute each month:

https://www.onlinecontribution.com/rmorrison /

This campaign is made up of thousands of patriotic Americans all over the country who've had enough of corruption in high places. Over 7,000 ordinary citizens donated to the 2004 campaign and we raised almost $700,000. Our "Defeat DeLay Every Day" program is designed to make the most of our collective power.

I am asking each one of you to give at least $10 per month. $10 per month is 33 cents a day; 33 cents a day to beat Tom DeLay. Please make this commitment to democracy. You can't afford not to.

Yesterday's Houston Chronicle featured a column that really brought home to me what we're up against in DeLay, Inc. -- a cartel so blatantly corrupt that Newt Gingrich is appalled. From the column:

Talking with Newt Gingrich about ethics may be like talking to Willie Sutton about bank robbery. You listen carefully to such an experienced practitioner, but you wonder: If he's so smart why did he get caught so often.

No matter. Gingrich is currently as cautionary, if not as vocally indignant, about the House Republican leadership's slide into the muck as he is about debating "patriotic immigration" or "the myth of judicial supremacy."

As usual, Gingrich is taking the long view, not something that current House leaders such as Tom DeLay are regularly accused of doing.

Well, of course, House Republicans are not being careful. They are profligately displaying their power, including the power to abuse the House's tenuous-at-best policing of itself.

Gingrich made clear he thinks DeLay is on thin ice.

"The Republican Party's majority comes from the Perot voters who want real reform," Gingrich said. "Anything which weakens that is difficult."

Tom DeLay IS on thin ice and your monthly contribution of $10 or $25 might seem like a small twig, but from thousands of small sticks are mighty bonfires built. Click here to put your log on the fire:

https://www.onlinecontribution.com/rmorrison /

fight on,
Richard Morrison

[sonias]

1. Go Richard Go

This will be the best $10 bucks a month I will spend. Think for the future and plan today. Morrison has a lot of guts and sticking out for a second year is the way to do it. Keep the pressure on DeLay.

Sonia

[rrocketto]

2. Running against DeLay

In the year 2010 I am going to be running against Tom DeLay. Consider this my campaign announcement. If you want to help with my campaign e-mail me at [e-mail], this is no joke!

[nostamj]

10. if I'm still in business...

I'd be happy to design your campaign graphics/swag...



you won't be the first DUer I've done that for and...

:hi: welcome to DU!

[WatchWhatISay]

3. DeFeat DeLay DeSoona

DeBetta!

[crispini]

4. I'm in.

I (heart) Morrison.

[Les BOOGIE]

5. link doesn't work

[crispini]

6. Huh, I just checked it. Try again.

You can also get there from

http://www.richardmorrisonfordistrict22.com/

[Les BOOGIE]

7. still doesn't work for me but this new one does

[Les BOOGIE]

8. now the donation gets declined

(nowhere near red line on c.c.)

??????????

[crispini]

9. Well, it worked for me.

They've already had 27 pledges, WOOOOO!

Try contacting them -- they have an email address on their main page,

http://www.morrisonfor22.com/contact_us/contact_us.php

[BrightKnight]

11. Morrison is not a quitter

He appears to be taking more initiative than the Texas Democratic Party. It is refreshing to see someone with fight.

I supported him in the last election and I will continue to support him. He was not able to collect nearly enough money take on DeLay.

I would like to see him start a PAC. We need someone to shame or inspire this party into action.

[crispini]

12. Kick for Morrison

He's looking for 100 monthly contributors and is up to about 50.

Just got this email.

The Washington Post has the news. Tom DeLay went on a $100,000 trip to Korea paid for by a registered foreign agent.

If you've had enough of Tom DeLay, send a message and support a grassroots revolution that's working to end the reign of DeLay, Inc. Contribute to Richard Morrison here: http://morrisonfor22.com/contribute/contribute.php

Here's more from the Washington Post story:

A delegation of Republican House members including Majority Leader Tom DeLay accepted an expense-paid trip to South Korea in 2001 from a registered foreign agent despite House rules that bar the acceptance of travel expenses from foreign agents, according to government documents and travel reports filed by the House members.

Justice Department documents show that the Korea-U.S. Exchange Council, a business-financed entity created with help from a lobbying firm headed by DeLay's former chief of staff, registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act on Aug. 22, 2001. DeLay; his wife, Christine; and two other Republican lawmakers departed on a trip financed by the group on Aug. 25 of that year.

The exchange group in late 2003 hosted three Democratic House members and another Republican on a similar trip. It spent at least 106,921 to finance the three-day trip in 2001 from Washington to Seoul by the Republicans, which DeLay (Tex.) and accompanying staff assistants described at the time as having an "educational" purpose.

The DeLay machine is very brittle -- it's held together with chains of money under high tension. Lobbyists give him money because he's powerful. He invests a certain percentage of that in campaign contributions to other GOPers. The influence he buys with that money is then mercilessly exploited to squeeze more money from the lobby.

But now corporations are getting into serious legal trouble for their involvement with DeLay, Inc. But DeLay is not resting. His criminal defense fund has already raised $1million.

But his campaign fund is down to only $68,000. He's already hired a top dirty tricks consultant for the 2006 race. We gotta step up our game to win. Every dollar invested in Morrison in 2004 caused DeLay to spend $4.62. That's a 400% return on investment. Contribute here to help Richard Morrison break up DeLay, Inc.: http://morrisonfor22.com/contribute/contribute.php

[anarchy1999]

13. While we all support Morrison in his bid to defeat DeLay in 2006, I have

a suggestion, we should be supporting Lon Burnam in his lawsuit now against DeLay in Austin. The Feds are coming in on this and I truly believe Lon deserves our $'s now for his legal fund to fight DeLay and his millions being brought in for his legal "defense". Please consider supporting Lon in his fight against DeLay using Homeland Security illegally, to find the Dems that went to Oklahoma, opposing the illegal redistricting of Texas.

[crispini]

14. Got a link? nt

[anarchy1999]

15. Whoops, my very bad! Lon can't take any donations while "in session".

So I guess we give it all to Morrison? I don't know. All I know is DeLay should have been removed by now!\

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http://www.cafepress.com/nostamj/465588

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