Action Archive

Does Your Rep. Stand With DeLay or Democracy?

April 2005

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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Target Tom DeLay: The Kingpin of Corruption

March 2005 - Present

delay_tv2.gifIn April 2005, we launched a TV ad campaign against Tom DeLay that was, at the time, 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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Target Jim McCrery: Wall Street Puppet on Social Security

February - March 2005

mccrery_ad_small.jpgResponding to Bush's 2005 State of the Union declaration that Social Security privatization was his top legislative priority, we sprung into action, immediately highlighting the corruption of the chair of the Social Security subcommittee, Rep. Jim McCrery. The following week we unveiled a research analysis exposing that Rep. Jim McCrery, the newly appointed head of the Social Security Subcommittee in the House, had taken over $200,000 from the securities and commercial banking interests that stand to benefit from privatization of Social Security.

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Corruption Exposé on Rep. Jim McCrery Gets Results

February 2005

Representative Jim McCrery (R-LA)


In the last two weeks of February 2005, we launched a multimedia advertising blitz to expose the Wall Street conflict of interest of Rep. Jim McCrery — the man charged with pushing Social Security privatization through the House of Representatives. more »

Unleash the Medicare Truth Squad

October 2004

Hundreds of Campaign for America’s Future supporters raised over $20,000 to enable our Senior Truth Squad to expose the outrages of the Bush Medicare law.  We purchased ads in 20 Iowa and Wisconsin newspapers, blanketing the crucial battleground states. more »