"Defeat DeLay Every Day"

[Richardo]

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

Working against DeLay is a NATIONAL challenge, not just for the 22nd District of Texas. With that in mind, I thought I'd share this with my DU brethren and sistren. ;-) Please do what you can...
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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