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| For Immediate Release
April 4, 2006 Contact: Jesse Derris, Ken Sunshine Consultants – (212) 691-2800 DeLay Lies Even About His Resignation NEW YORK – 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. DeLay's statements to TIME that he decided to resign last Wednesday, March 29, directly contradict the actions of his reelection campaign in the ensuing days, leading to speculation that he resigned for other reasons. Tony Rudy, DeLay's former deputy chief of staff, pled guilty to corruption charges last Friday, March 31, and pledged to help with a federal investigation of bribery and lobbying fraud. A day after DeLay's supposed decision to abandon his reelection bid, his campaign sent out a strongly worded fundraising email (below) attacking a new film, The Big Buy: How Tom DeLay Stole Congress, and pledging to "…continue to work every day to represent our conservative Texas values…" The Thursday fundraising solicitation calls into question DeLay's assertion that he decided to resign the day before, and raises further speculation that the guilty plea of Rudy – and his decision to cooperate with government investigators – played a larger role than the former Majority Leader admits. "Tom DeLay continues to mislead the American people, even as he resigns in shame," said Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck, the two Texas filmmakers behind The Big Buy. "It is more important than ever that people take a close look at what DeLay did in Texas and nationally – he tried to buy a permanent Republican majority in Congress with corporate money. His resignation doesn't change the fact that we are in a fight for the life of our democracy, and that the fight against the corporate corruption of Congress will continue." The Big Buy chronicles the rise of Tom DeLay from backbencher in the Texas Legislature to the architect of the largest money machine ever constructed on Capitol Hill, and also chronicles Texas DA Ronnie Earl as he investigates that machine. It's this local DA who wins 41 indictments against the operatives, groups, corporations and congressman who Grand Juries say broke the law in order to funnel illegal corporate money to Texas Republicans. The film lays open the confluence of events that led multinational corporations to pour donations into an obscure DeLay PAC dedicated to changing the political landscape of the nation by changing the congressional lines of a state. ### |
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