Action Archive

After Tom DeLay was indicted on criminal conspiracy charges, the Campaign for America's Future was the first group to call for Tom DeLay's resignation — not just as Majority Leader but from the United States Congress. Our supporters sent tens of thousands of letters to members of Congress demanding that they publicly call for Tom DeLay's resignation.

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We issued a playful challenge to our supporters in early August 2005, enlisting them in a "search" for six Democrats who were missing when it came time to stand up for hard-working people across America. The six "missing" Democrats were Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, Rep. Ruben Hinojosa, D-Texas, Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., and Rep. John Tanner, D-Tenn. more »

President Bush didn't want anyone celebrating the 70th birthday of Social Security. Public praise for Social Security's 70 years of success would undermine plans to privatize the program. more »

Our radio ad campaign against Rep. Bob Ney highlighted his corruption to tens of thousands of his own constituents. The ad ran hundreds of times from July 7-12 across Ney's sprawling rural Ohio district. Our provocative radio ad tells the story of Ney's shady deals and paints the portrait of a politician who knows how to play the game in Washington and stack the deck for his lobbyist friends. more »

In late July we targeted Rep. John Tanner, D-Tenn., for voting against an amendment that would have strengthened federal oversight of Wal-Mart stores. Rep. Tanner is a top recipient of Wal-Mart's campaign contributions. Our full-page newspaper ad (below) ran in The Jackson Sun, the largest newspaper in Rep. Tanner's Tennessee district.

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In June, we launched our first print adsagainst Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, by placing two full-page ads in papers in his district that linked Ney to notorious lobbyist Jack Abramoff and Indian gambling issues. In early July, we followed up by airing a radio adthat urged Ney to address the needs of everyday Ohioans instead of spending his time on gambling deals for Washington lobbyists. Without the donations of our online supporters, we could not have exposed Ney's corruption.

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We worked with our allies at Americans United to Protect Social Security to organize the "Take A Stand" campaign. In total, we held 224 Take a Stand events and 53 town hall meetings in the districts of 65 uncommitted members of Congress urging them to stand up against President Bush's risky privatization scheme. Thousands of Americans stood up for Social Security at events across the country. more »

This full page print ad ran in the April 7, 2005 edition of The Washington Times, which has a heavy readership among Washington's conservative elite. The ad sent a powerful message to tens of thousands of Times readers that then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's corruption has no place in American politics — even within conservative circles.

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Our TV ad campaign against Tom DeLay was the largest in our organization's history. This ad ran over 700 times in Tom DeLay's Houston district and in Washington DC. The ad called out DeLay's corruption for hundreds of thousands of households full of his own constituents and colleagues.

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Campaign for America's Future supporters made over a thousand phone calls to their Representatives asking them a straightforward question to get their position on DeLay on record: "Do you believe that Tom DeLay is ethically fit to serve as House Majority Leader?" The responses were sobering news for Tom DeLay.

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