Month: October 2005

Microcosm of the Difference Between the Parties

Posted by | Oct 1, 2005 |

Check this out from DNC Blog via Suburban Guerrilla.

On Friday, September 9, days after Hurricane Katrina had ravaged the Gulf Coast, I felt frustrated and angry. In the communications department here at the DNC, I spend most of my day working and watching the news, and although I felt informed of what was going on around me, I also felt helpless and powerless to help those so far away.

At 10 a.m. the phone rang, and while I usually only get calls from the press, this one was different. A man identifying himself as a lifelong Republican was on the line. I began to prepare myself for whatever harsh words he was about to unleash, but to my surprise he said, “I need your help.” So I asked him “What do you need?”

In the wake of Katrina, Forrest King took in six evacuees because he said it was time for Americans to come together and help one another. He went on to say he had an elderly woman in his care, she had no medicine, and no one from the state or federal level would help him. He said that the Republican Party had abandoned him. He said the last thing he ever expected was to be calling up the DNC asking for help but he had no one else to call.

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Tom Delay’s Achilles’ Heel

Posted by | Oct 1, 2005 |

The spin coming from Tom Delay and his allies suggests that his indictment is a hollow sham. The reality is that the case is strong, and “the Hammer” may end up in the Slammer.

Delay had the motive: He wanted a Republican takeover of the state legislature so he could engineer a GOP-friendly re-districting, replacing several Democratic Congressmen with Republicans.

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   A defendant-friendly judge has ruled in a civil suit that the treasurer of TRMPAC, Delay’s state PAC, had violated the law by failing to disclose more than $600,000 in corporate money.

Delay had the opportunity: He had the ability to collect and launder corporate contributions (illegal under Texas law) through his national PAC into his state PAC for redistribution to GOP candidates for the state legislature.

And District Attorney Ronnie Earle has the evidence: Thanks largely to an under-reported civil suit won by Democratic lawmakers who lost their seats to the now well-financed Republicans. Their suit led to a judicial finding that Delay’s scheme violated state law, and it uncovered documents directly implicating Delay in the conspiracy.

Delay charged that “this is one of the weakest, most baseless indictments in American history,” and he called Earle an “unabashed partisan zealot.” He added, “Let me be very, very clear. I have done nothing wrong. I have violated no law, no regulation, no rule of the House.”

Despite the bravado, a civil case litigated earlier this year in Texas must worry Delay and his supporters. Although Delay was not a defendant, the guilty verdict and the found documents portend a less than happy outcome.

BELOW . . . Has someone turned?

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CA-48th: Young’s Building Staff for the General Election

Posted by | Oct 1, 2005 |

I’ve had a some private email wondering what we were doing to get ready for the General Election. Since Steve Young, the presumptive Democratic nominee, will be facing John Campbell, the presumptive Republican nominee, a millionaire and the entire Republican machine, I thought just this one little press release might give you some of the flavor of the quality of people jumping on board this race.

 ActBlue has been jumping the last two days so don’t stop that work! Steve Young for Congress.

This press piece was released to MSM yesterday:

Steve Young Gears Up for Special Election

 Campaign Rides Momentum into Oct. 4 Primary with Additional Advisors Joining the Campaign

more on the flip

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