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OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: Clean up Congress - Sign the Voters First Pledge (6/27/2006)
Sign the Voters First Pledge to make elections fair, restore accountability and protect voters right-to-know. Powerful interests and lobbyists spend millions of dollars to gain access to our elected officials, and are rewarded with billions of taxpayer dollars in return. Potential leaders of tomorrow who refuse to play this game or don’t have access to millions can’t get a start in politics today.It’s time to clean up Congress by putting voters first. For our nation’s future, vision and voters should matter more than donors and their dollars.

THE VILLAGE VOICE: A Fallen Star is Born: Tom DeLay's scandals are a gold mine for two Texas filmmakers (5/22/2006)
On March 7, when The New York Times wrote the first of three pieces about The Big Buy (thus far), Schermbeck and Greenwald even predicted it would be used as a fund-raising tool for DeLay. That very thing happened on March 31, when he went trolling for cash on his website by declaring that his Democrat opponent Nick Lampson's "liberal Hollywood buddies" had given him a "welcome" gift by releasing The Big Buy, which he claimed was about nothing more than "Earle's partisan witch-hunt."

CAROLINA NEWSWIRE: Raleigh's Distillery Pictures collaborates on Tom DeLay documentary opening May 19 (5/19/2006)
“Making this film has been an experience of a lifetime,” said Birnbaum. “We’ve partnered with so many talented people in the industry, and Distillery Pictures and Trailblazer Studios are high on that list. They’re a great resource with diverse experience and creativity, and their technical capabilities compare with those of many major national production and postproduction facilities.”

AUSTIN AMERICAN STATESMAN: For Austin, a delayed DeLay Documentary look at Tom DeLay's legal woes is taking the grass-roots route to being seen (5/24/2006)
It had one-week runs in Houston and Dallas, but Austin will have to wait for the new political documentary "The Big Buy: Tom DeLay's Stolen Congress" to play a local theater. The movie paints such an unflattering picture of the former House majority leader, who has been indicted on campaign fund-raising charges, that the filmmakers want to know if his trial will be held in Austin before they unleash the movie. "We don't want DeLay's lawyers to blame us for polluting the jury pool," says Jim Schermbeck, co-director of "The Big Buy."

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: 'Clean Money Day' to Highlight Negative Effect of Corporate Money on Public Policy Debate (5/23/2006)
As Federal investigations focus in on the links between lobbyists and politicians in Washington, DC, film distribution pioneer Brave New Films (Outfoxed, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price) is set to team with over a dozen prominent non-profit groups on June 27, 2006 for Clean Money Day, an effort to highlight the growing fight to take corporate money out of public policy debates across the nation and cut the role of lobbyists in determining our national priorities.

STAR-TELEGRAM: A horror story or comedy? It depends (5/23/2006)
Lon Burnam is coming soon to a movie theater near you. Or somebody's TV screen, at least. Consider yourself warned: The Fort Worth Democrat is one of two Tarrant County natives playing starring roles in The Big Buy: How Tom DeLay Stole Congress, a new political movie showing in a Dallas theater. The other one is co-star Ronnie Earle, the former Birdville Buffaloes football player who moved to Austin and now stars for the cameras primarily as the Democratic district attorney prosecuting former House Majority Leader DeLay.

DALLAS MORNING NEWS: Some Democrats still pin hopes on DeLay backlash (5/21/2006)
There on the screen was Tom DeLay – 30 feet tall, flickering in black and white like the man who wasn't there in a film noir. For political activists intent on highlighting the message of political corruption in this year's House and Senate races, it did not seem to matter that Mr. DeLay was actually no longer a candidate and soon won't be a congressman, either. To the crowd that gathered Friday night for the premiere of The Big Buy, a documentary about the former House majority leader's precipitous rise and fall, Tom DeLay is still big box office.

GALVESTON DAILY NEWS: DeLay movie could be used in court (5/20/2006)
Tom DeLay doesn’t plan to buy tickets to see the movie “The Big Buy: How Tom DeLay Stole Congress.” But he may be offering up his own premiere of the documentary — in court. DeLay spokeswoman Shannon Flaherty said, while the outgoing congressman doesn’t much like how he is portrayed in the movie, certain scenes might become part of his defense against state charges of money laundering brought by Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle.

AP: DeLay documentary premieres in Houston (5/19/2006)
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, given the nickname "the hammer" during his political career, can add one more title to his resume: reluctant movie star. DeLay is the focus of a new documentary, which premiered tonight in Houston. The film examines his role in Texas' 2003 congressional redistricting and the investigation by Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle, who has charged him with money laundering for his role in raising money for state Republican races.

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: THE BIG BUY World Premiere Set for Houston (5/9/2006)
New Documentary by Texas Filmmakers Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck takes on Tom DeLay and the dirty money he used to steal congress from the American people.

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: DeLay Lies Even About His Resignation (4/4/2006)
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) apparently misled TIME Magazine about the details surrounding his resignation, leading to more questions about his decision to not seek reelection and to leave Congress in the coming months.

DALLAS OBSERVER: The Hammer and the Nailing (3/22/2006)
What's bad news for Tom DeLay is good news for Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck, the Dallas-based documentary filmmakers whose movie about Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle's investigation into the doings of DeLay's Texans for a Republican Majority political action committee (TRMPAC) has found a distributor. ... In the meantime, DeLay is trying to get re-elected to Congress, with the indictment hanging over his head like a bad hairpiece.