Tuesday, May 03, 2005

''PAC behind purchase of DeLay billboards''

"LA MARQUE — A political action group founded by former Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean has purchased a pair of billboards, one of which is in La Marque, aimed at House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.

“Lobbyists sent Tom DeLay golfing; all you got was this billboard,” the roadside banner reads. It also contains a generic photograph of golfers’ feet on a putting green.

Democracy for America, a national organization founded by Dean, now the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, purchased the billboard as well as one in downtown Houston. The billboards went up Monday morning with the La Marque advertisement on Interstate 45 South. facing northbound traffic near Vauthier Road."-from the story today in The Daily News of Galveston County (TX).

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