DFA Takes on DeLay

I just got an e-mail from Tom Hughes, Executive Director of Democracy for America.  In it he asks us to go to DFA's site and suggest a slogan to be put on billboards around the Texas 22nd Congressional District (Tom DeLay's district).

This has to be one of the neatest things I've seen DFA do yet.  Check out the email:

Dear [Fran for Dean],

If you could say something -- in a big way -- to the people of Congressman Tom DeLay's district in Texas, what would it be?

We're looking for a slogan -- something short, something memorable, and something that lets the people of his district know that it's time for him to go.

We're buying billboards in the 22nd Congressional District, and if your slogan is selected, it will be part of Democracy for America's big splash in Tom DeLay's backyard.

Suggest your Tom DeLay slogan here:

http://www.democracyforamerica.com/slogan

You have a lot of material to work with, thanks to Tom DeLay himself. Everything is fair game -- his abuse of power, his money-for-influence machine, his corporate shilling, his ethics rebukes, his foreign trips with lobbyists, his huge campaign payouts to family members, his bullying of fellow Congressmen.

You can even use his more recent threatening of judges and his wild lashing out at critics. And remember, his nickname is "The Hammer" and he's a former exterminator -- those facts might come in handy as well.

What message do you want to send?

http://www.democracyforamerica.com/slogan

With the folks at Democracy for Texas we're going to take your slogan and make a stand on DeLay's home turf -- where his political base erodes more and more every day.

You were the first to put an ad on the air in his district last year, when everyone thought Tom DeLay was untouchable. Our efforts helped give him the scare of his political life and his lowest margin of victory ever.

Now it's time to finish the job -- and have a little fun doing it.

Thank you,

Tom Hughes
Executive Director
Democracy for America

P.S. -- Don't forget to suggest your slogan:

http://www.democracyforamerica.com/slogan

What do you think?  I bet DFAers will be able to think up some pretty witty stuff to put up on those billboards.  This is one of the most original ideas I've seen.  As a great man once said, "Hundreds of thousands of regular people at home will always come up with better ideas than 5 professional consultants locked up in an office in DC."

•  Any suggestions?

  by Fran for Dean on Tue Apr 12, 2005 at 10:44:19 AM PDT

  •  And oldie but a goodie

    Had Enough?

    by Dump Terry McAuliffe on Tue Apr 12, 2005 at 10:46:13 AM PDT

  •  keep it simple and honest

    Just stick a nice picture of Delay with the slogan "Congressman For Sale"

    by chrvoel on Tue Apr 12, 2005 at 10:48:50 AM PDT

    •  oooh, that's good!

      by Fran for Dean on Tue Apr 12, 2005 at 01:00:44 PM PDT

•  Yeah, I got one

  Cheating on your spouse is legal.  But it's wrong.

  Selling out America might be legal, but it's wrong.

  DID YOU UNDERSTAND THAT TOM DELAY?

  by Mike Stark on Tue Apr 12, 2005 at 10:58:41 AM PDT

•  Another:

  
  Cheating on your spouse is legal.  But it's wrong.

  Selling out America might be legal, but it's wrong.

  STOP CHEATING ON AMERICA, TOM DELAY?
  

  by Mike Stark on Tue Apr 12, 2005 at 11:01:21 AM PDT

•  so I borrowed it from "- God"

  Here's what I submitted (with apologies to the churches that put similar phrases on their own signs):

  What part of "Thou Shalt Not..." don't you understand, Congressman DeLay?

  by thesill on Tue Apr 12, 2005 at 11:05:33 AM PDT

  •  I like it

    though that one should probably be tested first, as that has a good possibility of offending people.

    by Fran for Dean on Tue Apr 12, 2005 at 01:01:40 PM PDT

    •  neo-cons twisting my religion...

      ...offends me!

      by thesill on Wed Apr 13, 2005 at 08:48:03 AM PDT

•  I Submitted

  Building Your Own Ethics Rules with "The Hammer"

  by dvogel001 on Tue Apr 12, 2005 at 11:06:10 AM PDT

•  How about

  Why DeLay the inevitable?

  The Hammer's "ethics" are hurting America, and right now we must "Stop Hammer('s) Time" in Congress.

  Tom DeLay, step down now!

  by lalawguy on Tue Apr 12, 2005 at 11:07:18 AM PDT

•  how about

  A pic of DeLay reaching for a roll of toilet paper made out of the constitution....

  by smokem2271 on Tue Apr 12, 2005 at 11:07:20 AM PDT

•  What I hope to see

  What I hope to see under any anti-DeLay billboard DFA buys are the words, "Vote Richard Morrison."

  by mini mum on Tue Apr 12, 2005 at 11:08:06 AM PDT

•  Tom DeLay: "I am the government."

  Constitution of the United States: "We the people ..."

  by fritzrth on Tue Apr 12, 2005 at 11:40:05 AM PDT

•  Change Without DeLay

  Says it all.

  by pshaw on Tue Apr 12, 2005 at 12:02:20 PM PDT

•  DeLay no more...bring in Morrison

  ...we are wasting precious time

  by skywalker on Tue Apr 12, 2005 at 03:36:36 PM PDT

•  This is a waste of time and money at best...

  ...and counterproductive at worst.

  Outsiders, liberals, New Englanders, DEAN, coming in to tell Texans who to vote for? I used to live in Tom Delay's district. I think this is a mistake.

  It's also once again, DFA being AGAINST something not FOR something. Is that all we are going to do?

  If DFA wants to help get rid of Delay (and who doesn't), target the Morrison campaign for funding, advice, support and cooperation.

  by rkolker on Mon Apr 18, 2005 at 07:01:19 AM PDT

  •  perhaps you missed

    the part where a team of Texans go through all of the suggestions and pick out the best ones?

    by Fran for Dean on Mon Apr 18, 2005 at 02:21:52 PM PDT