DeLay petition drive kicks off 7 months early

[rainbow4321]

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/060205dntexdelay.107401e34.html


With Democrats gunning for him and an ex-congressman already working to take his seat, Majority Leader Tom DeLay is wasting no time getting into campaign mode, rallying campaign volunteers and kicking off a ballot petition drive – seven months before the deadline.
She said the campaign hadn't planned to collect signatures so early, but so many supporters offered to pitch in that it made sense to channel their energy.

Democrats called the early petition drive a sign of someone scrambling to survive. "Tom DeLay is in trouble. His support at home is at a historic low," said Bill Burton, communications director at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, predicting: "He's in for the toughest fight of his congressional career."

"The liberal Democrats have wasted no time in attacking Tom DeLay and the Republican majority with baseless allegations and expensive media campaigns," reads an e-mail the DeLay campaign recently sent Republicans in his suburban Houston district, soliciting help with the petition drive. "We too are starting early and have already cranked up our own campaign machine."

"He knows that if he's in trouble, he'd better begin to organize earlier to solidify his base," asserted Tom Matzzie, Washington director of the MoveOn political action committee, which is running radio ads in the districts of seven vulnerable members – none in Texas – linking them to Mr. DeLay's "stench of corruption."

[Erika]

1. I didn't know there were so many cat haters

and Frist lovers out there.

[janx]

2. Wow--he didn't like the billboards?

:rofl:





Or maybe it was the comment about how he should be in jail. :shrug:

I guess we'll never know, will we?

[Career Prole]

3. Bugman should have started a month ago...

...by leaving himself only seven months before the deadline he's going to be up against it trying to get enough signatures in time. :D