Every day until the election I'm making a contribution to a new candidate, announcing it here on Daily Kos, and encouraging you to join me. If one person matches my contribution on my ActBlue page, I'll double my contribution; if ten people match it, I'll triple. Yesterday
dad2jac,
Team Slacker,
annan,
Christopher Walker,
Hawksana,
maryru, and one other person matched my donation to Barry Welsh - not quite to my tripling threshold, but - good enough; Barry, here's $40 more.
Follow me across the fold to learn about today's candidate, Ellen Simon.
Here's Barry's website.
Here's my ActBlue page.
Update 7:45am The diary has made it to the recommended list again, so in anticipation of a flood of contributions like Saturdays: if we get 30 donations today I'll up my match by another $20; if we get 50, I'll throw in another $20 for Ellen. Thanks, all. I've got to go to work now; I'll catch up on the comments this evening. Let's make this a great day for Ellen!
Saturday,
biscobosco suggested Ellen Simon - an underfunded candidate who is neck-in-neck with a corrupt right-wing incumbent in Arizona, from a district I once lived in. My little corner of that district was pretty far to the Libertarian right, and it looks like the district as a whole still skews that way. But yet again we have evidence of a winnable red district because of national sentiment in 2006; let's take it! Ellen, here's $20 to get the ball rolling.
Here are my notes on Ellen Simon's campaign. Thanks to Simon staffer ijk and donnatella for providing so much good info.
Day | Candidate | Amount | Matching funds from other Kossacks | donors |
E-56 | Jack Carter | $100 | $321 | 9 |
E-55 | Susan Davis | $20 | $56 | 4 |
E-54 | Francine Busby | $50 | $321 | 12 |
E-53 | John Rinaldi | $20 | $101 | 7 |
E-52 | Ron Klein | $25 | $81 | 6 |
E-51 | Sherrod Brown | $25 x 2 | $116 | 9 |
E-50 | Ned Lamont | $20 x 2 | $200 | 13 |
E-49 | Phil Angelides | $20 x 2 | $85 | 6 |
E-48 | Charlie Brown | $20 x 2 | $300 | 16 |
E-47 | Victoria Wulsin | $25 x 2 | $276 | 15 |
E-46 | James Webb | $20 x 2 | $311 | 15 |
E-45 | Gabrielle Giffords | $20 x 2 | $111 | 9 |
E-44 | Debra Bowen | $100 x 2 | $551 | 18 |
E-43 | Jon Tester | $20 | $131 | 8 |
E-42 | Tammy Duckworth | $20 x 2 | $191 | 12 |
E-41 | Maxine Waters | $20 | $0 | 1 |
E-40 | Jim Brandt | $20 x 2 | $171 | 10 |
E-39 | Coleen Rowley | $20 x 2 | $420 | 13 |
E-38 | Dan Seals | $20 x 3 | $491 | 19 |
E-37 | John Laesch | $20 x 2 | $271 | 13 |
E-36 | Zachary Space | $20 x 2 | $236 | 16 |
E-35 | Scott Kleeb | $20 x 2 | $341 | 18 |
E-34 | Nancy Skinner | $20 x 2 | $171 | 10 |
E-33 | Mary Jo Kilroy | $20 x 2 | $201 | 15 |
E-32 | Eric Massa | $20 x 2 | $136 | 9 |
E-31 | Christine Jennings | $20 x 2 | $131 | 10 |
E-30 | Darcy Burner | $20 x 2 | $476 | 18 |
E-29 | Jill Derby | $20 x 2 | $72 | 9 |
E-28 | Patty Wetterling | $20 x 3 | $371 | 22 |
E-27 | Larry Kissell | $20 x 2 | $245 | 12 |
E-26 | John Hall | $20 x 3 | $271 | 15 |
E-25 | Wendy Wilde | $20 x 3 | $431 | 23 |
E-24 | Jack Davis | $20 | $11 | 4 |
E-23 | Nancy Boyda | $20 x 2 | $206 | 10 |
E-22 | Patricia Madrid | $20 x 2 | $131 | 10 |
E-21 | Jerry McNerney | $20 x 3 | $496 | 22 |
E-20 | Larry Grant | $20 x 3 | $731 | 20 |
E-19 | Linda Stender | $20 x 2 | $246 | 11 |
E-18 | Claire McCaskill | $20 x 2 | $486 | 18 |
E-17 | Julia Carson | $20 | $246 | 12 |
E-16 | Peter Goldmark | $20 x 6 | $2290 | 80 |
E-15 | Barry Welsh | $20 x 3 | $175 | 8 |
E-14 | Ellen Simon | $20 | $0 | 0 |
TOTAL | | $2035 | $12616 | 587 |