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| For Immediate Release
May 23, 2006 Contact: Jesse Derris, Ken Sunshine Consultants – (212) 691-2800 ‘Clean Money Day’ to Highlight Negative Effect LOS ANGELES – 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. The day of action features hundreds of screenings of the controversial new documentary The Big Buy: Tom DeLay’s Stolen Congress, including dozens in House districts represented by Members of Congress who are guilty of letting corporate money and lobbyists influence their actions in Congress; many of those Members are highlighted in the film. The film has already helped push Rep. DeLay to resign his seat. “The cure to the disease of corruption that Tom DeLay personifies is removing corporate money from politics,” said Rick Jacobs, Chairman of Brave New Films. “Only then will we have elections that center on the things that matter – the issues – and representatives devoted to their constituents, not their benefactors.” Groups participating in Clean Money Day include the ACLU, California Church IMPACT, California Clean Money Campaign, Campaign for America’s Future, Common Cause, Courage Campaign, Democracy Matters, The Greenlining Institute, National Organization for Women, People for the American Way, Public Campaign, Public Citizen, and many others. Details on local screenings around the country will be available at tomdelaymovie.com/clean/. The film – by Texas filmmakers Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck – made its World Premiere in Houston, Texas last Friday, May 19, 2006, at the Angelika Film Center. The premiere marks the start of a massive grassroots outreach program – including Clean Money Day – to screen the film for hundreds of thousands of voters across the nation, including grassroots premieres in Los Angeles, New York and Washington, DC, and thousands of house parties around the country. The film will also screen theatrically in cities across the nation. The Big Buy details Tom DeLay’s master plan to create a permanent Republican majority in the U.S. Congress in part by using illegal corporate contributions to reshape Texas’ political landscape. At the pinnacle of his power, the then Majority Leader used these illegal contributions to take over the Texas State Legislature, redraw the state’s congressional lines mid-decade, and send a half-dozen new hard-right Republican Congressmen to Washington. The film goes further to describe DeLay’s web of co-conspirators in Congress – Members of the House of Representatives who are systematically letting corporations take control of America’s Democracy – and to talk about the loopholes in our system that allow this lawlessness to happen. ### |
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