Mike Malaise Delay Quotations

As far as how it changes, it will give us a little bit of a window. It may make it easier to get some messages out without the negative prism of the DeLay campaign.

Tom DeLay has never had any trouble attracting the big-money special interests.

While Tom DeLay is struggling through a tough primary, we're out there doing house parties and giving speeches at community events and picking up more voters.

Nobody here thinks we are going to out raise Tom DeLay. But we are going to have to raise more to win this House race than anybody probably has raised before.

There's a lot of these shady lobbyists and special interest groups seeing the possibility that their sugar daddy might go down, and they're circling the wagons. We don't have to be out there convincing people that we're not criminal, the way Tom DeLay does. That takes a lot of money.

Our race also pushes a lot of donors our way since he is running against Tom DeLay. But he already had databases and donors that have given to his campaign before.

We have gotten a lot of support both here and around the country from people who are tired of seeing Tom DeLay put Congress up for sale to the highest bidder.

Now if he doesn't call a special election before Nov. 7, we here in the south of Houston region will be without a congressman in the middle of hurricane season while the country's at war and the whole immigrant reform debate is going on on Capitol Hill. This is an effort to give Tom DeLay a chance to handpick his successor and give him time to catch up to the campaigning that's already been done in this district.

This new poll affirms what we've known all along: Tom DeLay is in big trouble.