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Drop "The Hammer" on Corruption

Our TV ad campaign against Tom DeLay was the largest in our organization's history. This ad ran over 700 times in Tom DeLay's Houston district and in Washington DC. The ad called out DeLay's corruption for hundreds of thousands of households full of his own constituents and colleagues.

The ad was a huge hit. It was aired and discussed on major TV shows (including CNN's 'Crossfire' and "Inside Politics,' the nationally syndicated 'McLaughlin Group,' Fox News' 'The Big Story,' and PBS's 'Lehrer News Hour'), scores of newspapers (like the New York Times, Washington Post, Houston Chronicle and USA Today), and some of the nation's most popular blogs (including MyDD.com, AmericaBLOG.com and TalkingPointsMemo.com).

The ad's news coverage alone exposed the real face of Tom DeLay to millions of Americans, and has already opened up a much needed public discussion on the corruption currently tolerated by the Republican leadership. Watch the Ad! » [1]

Delay In The News

Press Releases:

NEW TOM DELAY AD ON THE AIR IN HOUSTON
Ad Expanding on Controversial Spot About DeLay Corruption Allegations To Air On At Least Two TV Stations Beginnining Sunday [2]
January 21, 2006

FACTCHECK.ORG: CONTROVERSIAL TOM DELAY AD IS ACCURATE
Independent Analysis Says DeLay Has No Factual Basis To Threaten TV Stations That Took The Spots Off The Air [3]
January 13, 2006

TOM DELAY, BOB NEY TARGETS OF MAJOR NEW AD CAMPAIGN LINKING BOTH TO MONEY SCANDALS ROILING WASHINGTON
Public Campaign Action Fund And Campaign For America’s Future Kickoff Joint Campaign To Clean Up Congress [4]
January 10, 2006

INDICTMENT DOESN’T DETER LOBBYISTS HOPING TO KEEP FAVOR WITH DELAY
The DeLay Money Machine Represents the HMOs, Pharmaceutical & Big Energy Industries [5]
November 17, 2005

NEW DATA: 26 CONGRESSMEN BOUGHT OUT BY REP. DELAY
Congressmen Caught In Rep. DeLay’s Web Of Corruption Under Fire [6]
October 11, 2005

REPUBLICAN PARTY CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF TOM DELAY'S WEB OF CORRUPTION
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay Indicted For A Second Time [7]
October 4, 2005

Press Conference:

Ellen Miller & Melanie Sloan on Tom DeLay's Indictment [8] - Transcript [9]
September 28, 2005

WASHINGTON LAWYERS RALLY AROUND EMBATTLED LEADER
New Campaign Finance Report Highlights Biggest Contributors To Tom DeLay [10]
July 19, 2005

SURVEY: ONLY 20 REPS. PUBLICLY STAND WITH TOM DELAY
Embattled DeLay Responds With Memo To Right-Wing Conservatives [11]
April 19, 2005

NEW TOM DELAY AD TARGETS CONSERVATIVES
DeLay Reveals The New Face Of The Conservative Movement [12]
April 7, 2005

CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA’S FUTURE DEMANDS EXPLANATION OF TOM DELAY’S DARLING RELATIONSHIP
Majority Leader Connected to GOP Schiavo Strategy Memo Author [13]
April 7, 2005

NEW TV ADS HIGHLIGHT TOM DELAY'S CORRUPTION
Campaign for America's Future Fights Most Corrupt Congress' Abuse of Power [14]
March 30, 2005

News Articles:

KHOU TV - Houston, "Anti-DeLay Ad Gets Revised, on Air" [15]
January 24, 2006

Ad Week, "Houston Stations Differ on DeLay Spot" [16]
January 23, 2006

Associated Press, "At least one Houston TV station to air ads critical of DeLay" [17]
January 22, 2006

The Associated Press article was published in: Denton Record-Chronicle.

Broadcasting & Cable, "Two Stations to Run DeLay Ads" [18]
January 21, 2006

Broadcasting & Cable, "FactCheck Says Delay Ad Isn't False" [19]
January 15, 2006

Kansas City InfoZine, "Controversial Tom Delay Ad is Accurate" [20]
January 14, 2006

United Press International, "Group finds anti-DeLay ad accurate" [21]
January 14, 2006

Capitol Hill Blue, "Houston TV stations don't like ads that tell truth about DeLay" [22]
January 12, 2006

KWTX TV - Waco, Temple, Killeen, "Ads Targeting DeLay Run Starting Wednesday" [23]
January 11, 2006

Broadcasting & Cable, "KHOU Pulls DeLay Ad" [24]
January 11, 2006

New York Times, "Campaign Against Representatives" [25]
January 11, 2006

Seattle Weekly, "Lobbying Grenade" [26]
January 11, 2006

Roll Call, "Texas Appeals Court Denies DeLay Request for Quick Trial" [27]
January 9, 2006

New York Times, "The War Against Tom DeLay" [28]
October 2, 2005

San Francisco Chronicle, "Justice DeLayed Is..." [29]
September 29, 2005

Baltimore Sun, "DeLay indicted in Texas probe" [30]
September 29, 2005

USA Today, "DeLay Indictment Piles on GOP Troubles" [31]
September 28, 2005

Washington Post, "FEC Faults Accounting at DeLay's PAC" [32]
August 12, 2005

Rolling Stone, "The Hammer Falls" [33]
May 19, 2005

New York Times, "DeLay Takes the Offensive in His Address to Supporters" [34]
May 12, 2005

The Nation, "DeLay Must Go" [35]
April 21, 2005

Media Matters for America, "Media repeat anti-Soros propaganda by DeLay defenders" [36]
April 19, 2005

ZNet, "Oh, darn. The democracy thing. " [37]
April 17, 2005

BBC, "Top republican DeLay under siege" [38]
April 15, 2005

NPR, "Examining the Political Future of Tom DeLay" [39]
April 14, 2005

Christian Science Monitor, "Historic parallels as DeLay's woes deepen" [40]
April 12, 2005

Washington Post, "As DeLay Faces Ethics Questions, GOP Circles Its Wagons" [41]
April 7, 2005

The Washington Post article was also printed in: Concord Monitor

Bloomberg, "Republicans Back DeLay Amid Reports of Trip, Payments" [42]
April 6, 2005

Washington Post, "Groups Organize To Defend DeLay" [43]
March 31, 2005

Reuters, "Liberal groups target GOP's DeLay in TV ads" [44]
March 31, 2005

The Reuters article was published in: Boston Globe

Fox News, "Groups Take On DeLay With TV Ad Buy" [45]
March 31, 2005

St. Petersburg Times, "Groups use Schiavo case to attack congressman" [46]
March 31, 2005

Washington Post, "Liberals To Target DeLay In Ads" [47]
March 30, 2005

NPR, "Growing Chorus Calls for DeLay's Resignation" [48]
March 30, 2005

USA Today, "Groups use ethics questions to target DeLay" [49]
March 30, 2005

The USA Today article was also published in: Yahoo! News

TomPaine.com, "DeLay's Disgrace" [50]
March 30, 2005

AdWeek, "Political Groups' Ads Attack Congressmen" [51]
March 30, 2005

Bloomberg, "Advocacy Groups Raise Pressure on Republicans to Replace DeLay" [52]
March 30, 2005

Broadcasting & Cable, "DeLay Critics Launch TV Spots" [53]
March 30, 2005

Delay On TV And Radio

KPFT Pacifica Houston, "Evening News" [54]
January 17, 2006

KPFT Pacifica Houston, "FSRN" [55]
January 13, 2006

KPFT Pacifica Houston, "Evening News" [56]
January 11, 2006

KPRC TV, "Evening News" [57] Windows Media
January 11, 2006

NPR Dallas, "Regarding DeLay Ads"

January 11, 2006

KHOU TV 11, "Evening News" [58] Windows Media
January 11, 2006

KPFT Pacifica Houston, "Evening News" [59]
January 10, 2006

MSNBC, "Hardball with Chris Matthews" [60] Windows Media
January 10, 2006

MSNBC, "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" [61] Windows Media
January 10, 2006

KHOU TV 11, "Evening News" [62] Windows Media
January 10, 2006

Delay On The Blogs

Carrie's Bar & Grill, "Unbanned in Houston" [63]
January 23, 2006

Christian Dem Home Journal, "Anti-DeLay ad to air after all after slight tweaking" [64]
January 23, 2006

The Daily DeLay, "No longer banned in Houston" [65]
January 22, 2006

Texas Politics, "Revised anti-DeLay ad to air today (with video)" [66]
January 22, 2006

The People's Republic of Seabrook, "Methinks thou protesteth too mucha>
January 22, 2006 [67]

Don Black Jack, "Like Scarface...Delay is beginning to say helo to my little friends" [68]
January 19, 2006

Fort Bend Democrats, "New DeLay ads factual" [69]
January 13, 2006

The Phnom Penh, " Houston-area TV stations refuse to air ads about DeLay" [70]
January 13, 2006

Daily Kos, "DeLay Successfully Scares Broadcast Stations into Silence" [71]
January 12, 2006

Talking Points Memo, "Tom DeLay" [72]
January 11, 2006

Daily Kos, "Midday Open Thread" [73]
January 11, 2006

Fired Up0, "Check Out The New Ads On DeLay" [74]
January 11, 2006

Crooks and Liars, "Tom Delay to sue?" [75]
January 11, 2006

The Brad Blog, "Tom DeLay Threatens to Sue TV Stations Who Air Ad Exposing His Corruption" [76]
January 11, 2006

Washington Monthly, "Tom DeLay and the Russian Tycoons" [77]
January 11, 2006

AlterNet, "Delay threatens to sue" [78]
January 11, 2006

Intellectualize.org, "Freedom of Speech? Not Exactly..." [79]
January 11, 2006

The Democratic Daily Blog, "DeLay Threatens to "Sue any Station" Over TV Ads" [80]
January 11, 2006

The WB42 5:30 Report with Doug Krile Blog, "Run the Spots - Tom DeLay Will Sue" [81]
January 11, 2006

The Democratic Daily, "3 Houston TV Stations Drop DeLay Ads Under Pressure" [82]
January 11, 2006

Truth Serum Blog, "Tell the truth and I'll sue" [83]
January 11, 2006

Objective Justice, "So Sue Me DeLay" [84]
January 11, 2006

The Daily DeLay, "New Ads to Run in Tom DeLay's and Bob Ney's districts" [85]
January 10, 2006

The Democratic Daily, "Ney Likely to be Indicted" [86]
January 10, 2006

Atrios Eschaton, "Houston Stations Refusing DeLay Ads" [87]
January 8, 2006

TalkingPointsMemo.com, "As we noted..." [88]
April 12, 2005

DemocraticUnderground.com, "The Top 10 Conservative Idiots" [89]
April 11, 2005

BlogforAmerica.com, "The Best Defense" [90]
April 9, 2005

DailyKos.com, "Memo memo memo" [91]
April 7, 2005

TalkLeft.com, "Delay and Darling Connection" [92]
April 7, 2005

SwingStateProject.com, "Tom DeLay and Brian Darling" [93]
April 7, 2005

TalkingPointsMemo.com, "DeLay Furor" [94]
March 31, 2005

MyDD.com, "DeLay TV ads" [95]
March 30, 2005

AMERICABlog, "Great new ad about Tom DeLay" [96]
March 30, 2005

The Carpetbagger Report, "DeLay’s public profile is about to increase" [97]
March 30, 2005

Burnt Orange Report, "$75,000 Ad Buy in Tom DeLay's District" [98]
March 30, 2005

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