Protest DeLay this Monday -- please join Travis County Democrats

[NoPasaran]

CALLING ALL ACTIVISTS, TOMORROW-!!


DATE: Monday, October 4, 2004
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: The Austin Club, 110 East 9th St.


It’s almost unimaginable that Tom DeLay would have the nerve to cross the Austin city limits, but he’s coming to town to RAISE MONEY, of all things. He'll be meeting with fat cat donors at the Austin Club, and we’d like to let him know just how much we appreciate all he's done for Travis County.


Austinites are planning to show up at the Austin Club to protest DeLay and his pest controllers at TRMPAC. Republican State Reps. Jack Stick and Todd Baxter, who are currently running for re-election, are two of DeLay's and TRMPAC’s beneficiaries and it's time to show them that their corporate funded schemes will no longer be tolerated.


Let's make a bold stand against Tom DeLay and the puppet Republicans he controls in Travis County. We must show Texas that Travis County will never accept DeLay and the Republicans soul less politics of deceit and help turn the tide against him and his corporate donors for good.


So let's greet Mr. DeLay as he comes out ................

According to the email I got from Democracy for Texas, also in attendance will be Willie N. Festus, the famous Terminex Bug.

[CitySky]

1. Go Travis County!

Make it a great showing! Hope it hits the press!

:)

www.morrisonfor22.com

[sonias]

2. The weasel slinked out of town early

Capitol Inside October 4, 2004
DeLay Stays One Step Ahead of Critics with Last-Minute Scheduling Switch BY
Mike Hailey

Now you see him, now you don't.

U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay outfoxed local Democrats who'd been
planning to protest his appearance at a Monday fundraiser in downtown Austin.
The powerful Texan slipped into town four hours earlier than originally
scheduled, started raising cash for his re-election campaign and hoped to hit
the road before any angry protestors arrived on the scene.

Going into Monday, Democrats had hoped to have several hundred people packing
the street outside the Austin Club during the fundraising event to draw
attention to DeLay's ties to the political action committee at the center of
more than two dozen indictments that were returned two weeks ago by a Travis
County grand jury investigating corporate influence in the 2002 state House
elections. Three fundraising consultants for the Texans for a Republican
Majority and several corporations face criminal charges in the ongoing probe.
But DeLay pulled a fast one on the Democrats with a last-minute change of
plans. He had sponsors move the fundraiser from the noon hour up to to 8 a.m.
Lobbyists and others who'd indicated plans to attend the event were alerted
Sunday night to the scheduling revisions. According to planners, the time of
the event was changed so DeLay could get back to Washington in time for a key
vote on the floor of the U.S. House. DeLay's supporters dismissed suggestions
that he was trying to elude protestors with the sudden scheduling shift.


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There is more but I can't link to the story since I think it comes from a subscription site.

Once a chickenshit hawk always a chickenshit.

Sonia

[johncoby2]

3. 40 protestors! More than who attended the function!!!

Pics anyone?

Way to go!