01-26-2008, 04:38 PM
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Read the posts on the first page of this thread:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=130666
Watch the Tom Delay political ad at the "click here" link to the video, in the following quote box,(it's short, and downloads quickly):
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http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefi...lay_ads_1.html
washingtonpost.com's Politics Blog
Meet Chris Cillizza
Soros Appears in Pro-DeLay ads
An interesting television ad went up last week in Rep. Tom DeLay's (R) Houston-area congressional district. The ad attacks Democrat billionaire philanthropist George Soros for his alleged funding of attacks on DeLay.
"George Soros: full of money and liberal ideas" says the ad's narrator. The commercial notes that Soros donated $25 million to efforts to defeat President Bush in 2004 and "bankrolled the liberals linked to attacks on Tom DeLay." Last month the Public Action Fund and Campaign For America's Future began running ads critical of DeLay. Soros donated $300,000 to Campaign For America's Future in 2004.
In the new ad aimed at Soros, the narrator goes on to suggest that liberal interest groups don't like DeLay because he "fights for lower taxes and economic freedom." <a href="http://mfile.akamai.com/18288/rm/video.washingtonpost.com/media/politics/022106-7v.ram">Click here</a> to see the ad for yourself (Requires Real Player).
The Houston Chronicle reported last Friday that Houston homebuilder Bob Perry funded the entirety of the $200,000 ad buy through a donation to the Free Enterprise Committee, which is the soft-money arm of the Free Enterprise Fund -- a D.C. based thinktank and political action committee. (One Democratic strategist pointed out that Perry was also a main source of funding for the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads during the 2004 presidential campaign.)
The Free Enterprise Committee filed its paperwork as a 527 with the Internal Revenue Service in June 2005, although the organization did not receive any contributions or spend any money last year. In its incorporation papers, the group's purpose is listed as "education and issue advocacy regarding the free enterprise system and pro-growth, free-market economic principles (such as lower taxes, smaller government/less government regulations, sound fiscal policies, litigation reform, and free trade)." Because it is a 527, the Free Enterprise Committee can accept unlimited donations (like Perry's) but must disclose its funding sources and expenditures on a regular basis....
By Chris Cillizza | February 21, 2006
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http://web.archive.org/web/200602251...n/3668654.html
DeLay ad challenges anti-Bush billionaire
Area builder paid entire cost of TV attack on Dem financier Soros
By SAMANTHA LEVINE and KRISTEN MACK
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle
Feb. 17, 2006, 11:49PM
Houston homebuilder Bob Perry is the sole funding source for a $200,000 TV advertising campaign that supports Rep. Tom DeLay and criticizes Democratic financier George Soros.
Perry, a longtime Republican donor, gave the entire amount that the conservative Committee for Free Enterprise used on the 30-second spot, according to spokesman Anthony Holm. The committee, rather than Perry, is identified in the ad as the sponsor.
"Mr. Perry felt the truth needed to be told and this was the best vehicle to do so," Holm said. "Mr. Perry believes Tom DeLay has done an excellent job protecting jobs, NASA, and our borders. He spent it as the result of the several unjustified attacks on Tom DeLay."
The ad is running on at least two television stations in DeLay's suburban Houston district a few weeks after two liberal groups aired an anti-DeLay ad.
E. O'Brien Murray, executive director of the Washington-based Committee for Free Enterprise, would not discuss the contribution.
Perry, a close friend of President Bush's top political aide, Karl Rove, has given millions to Texas GOP candidates, including DeLay.
Perry and his wife, Doylene, each contributed $5,000 late last year to DeLay's legal defense fund.
Perry's company is building the Oaks at Rio Bend, a residential campus for foster children founded by DeLay and his wife, Christine.
DeLay is running in the GOP primary March 7 and is awaiting trial in Travis County on charges of money laundering relating to the 2002 Texas House races.
KPRC Channel 2 and KHOU Channel 11 are airing the ad from the Committee for Free Enterprise for two weeks.
Tom Ash, vice president for creative services at KTRK Channel 13, would not say whether the station was running the ad.
KRIV Channel 26 will not air the spot in its current form.
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Hopefully, somebody will start a new thread where we can dicsuss, in earnest, splitting into two separate politics forums, one for each planet. |
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