If you can’t attend the documentary, please consider participating in the $5 campaign for Spitzer.

The poster boy for Congressional corruption, Tom DeLay, is delivering his farewell speech on the floor of the House today, and formally resigning tomorrow. His colleagues will cheer him, big donors and lobbyists will thank him, and Metro Justice is throwing a party. Metro Justice is celebrating by joining people all over the country on Clean Money Day, June 27th, with a showing of The Big Buy: Tom Delay’s Stolen Congress, a fascinating documentary about Delay’s money laundering schemes to divert corporate cash to Texas elections. After flooding Texas in illegal corporate campaign cash, Delay then set up a war room in the basement of the Texas State Legislature and directed the gerrymandering of new Texas congressional districts, resulting in Texas gaining several more Republican Reps in Congress–just the majority Bush needed to push through his conservative agenda.

But even worse than Delay’s flouting of the law was what he did within the law. The K Street project brought together the worst aspects of lobbying and corporate cash with a hardball partisan ethos. The system needs to change. Corporate cash is a cancer on the body politic. It’s time for public financing of elections. It’s time for Clean Money Clean Elections.

This year provides a rare opportunity for New Yorkers to show just how fed up we are with corporations renting politicians and hijacking Albany. A grassroots movement is growing. We are working to make Clean Money Clean Elections a major election year issue. New Yorkers are sending Eliot Spitzer $5 contributions to symbolize their commitment to Clean Money Clean Elections. Spitzer has endorsed the Clean Money Clean Elections system but he hasn’t mentioned it yet in a stump speech. We need to send him a powerful message that there is a groundswell of support for CMCE. If you can’t attend the documentary, please consider participating in the $5 campaign for Spitzer.