I imagine most of you already had a chance to read
the latest bombshell ethics scandal implicating Tom DeLay this morning in The Washington Post. Based on the latest story, we are expanding the lobbying targets of our phone calls to the Capitol Hill demanding full scale investigation into the
latest ethics scandals implicating Tom DeLay. Specifically we are
targeting the GOP House Leadership.
Folks we really need everyone here to read this diary and make the calls. The Congressional leadership is finally feeling some real heat as stories after stories are now emerging on Tom DeLay's alleged ethics transgressions. We have been on this issue for months and it is good to see the mainstream media finally being lot more aggressive in covering the stories about all the ethics abuses that have gone in Congress for last few years. So please recommend this diary so that everyone can get information and phone numbers for making this grassroots call to the Capitol Hill. More after the jump.
First, if you haven't done it yet,
please put in phone calls to the Ethics Committee members urging them to launch investigation into DeLay's latest ethics mess. Since we sent our supporters an email on Tuesday afternoon, these ethics committee members have been feeling the impact of their calls. Keep them up.
We also want everyone to call the offices of the following members who represent the leadership of the majority party. Call their offices and demand them to urge the Ethics Committee to investigate the latest allegations against their colleague who we believe is
ethically unfit to serve as the majority leader of the people's house:
- Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL): 202-225-2976
- Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO), Majority Whip: 202-225-6536
- Rep. Eric J. Cantor (R-VA), Deputy Majority Whip: 202-225-2815
- Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-OH), Conference Chair: 202-225-2015
- Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA), Conference Vice-Chair: 202-225-5831
- Rep. John T. Doolitte (R-CA)
- Conference Secretary: 202-225-2511
- Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ),Policy Chairman: (202) 225-3361
- Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-NY), Chair, National Republican Congressional Committee: 202-225-5265
When you are calling these members representing the Republican leadership in House, please keep in mind that you can call them and lobby them even if you are not in his or her district. The members listed above who make up the Republican leadership are accountable to all Americans, not just the citizens who live in their districts. The same is true for the Ethics Committee members - they may not be your representatives in Congress, but as a citizen concerned about the ethical behavior of current Congress, they are accountable to you.
Let us know how your calls are going.