Sean Tevis was sick and tired of his state legislature representative in Kansas, an anti-evolution, anti-abortion, anti-gay, pro-surveillance nutjob named Arlen Siegfreid (tell me THAT name doesn't sound evil). So Sean put his name where his mouth was and decided to run against the guy. And he needs your help.
Right now Sean is polling really well against Siegfreid with almost no name recognition. He needs money to get on the airwaves and put up signs, money that goes a LONG way in a place like Kansas, money that could boost his name recognition just enough to flip the seat.
In an effort to raise the money, Sean has calculated that if 3000 people each donate $8.34 to the cause, he'll be able to raise the funds he needs to take Siegfreid. So he turned to the Internet for help.
Sean's a super cool progressive-minded geek who supports all of our causes. He even created an xkcd-style webcomic full of internet in-jokes to explain why he needs to ask for donations. The comic, titled "It’s Like A Flamewar with a Forum Troll, but with an Eventual Winner," is viewable here.
Boing Boing carried his message and it looks like right now his website is being flooded, but I think you can still donate directly with the following Paypal information (from my donation receipt):
Recipient information
Donations coordinator: Sean Tevis for Kansas
Contact email: sean@seantevis.com
Folks, this is exactly what people-powered movements are all about. Small, downticket races where normal people are getting involved and using the Internet to take down the establishment and effect actual change. Your $8.34 will go a lot further here than most anywhere else. Join the 3000 and help elect Sean Tevis to the Kansas state legislature!
http://seantevis.com/...
EDIT - Sean's campaign website is getting completely slammed right now due to the attention on Boing Boing, once it gets back up I'll update again. In the meantime you can check out Sean's personal blog at http://tevis.net where he also talks about KA-Sen candidate Jim Slattery and his campaign to unseat Pat Roberts. This guy is awesome.
Sean comments on the Boing Boing post:
Hey all! Thank you so much for your warm and generous support. The site is being hammered way above what I expected. As ROSSINDETROIT has pointed out my PayPal information is:
Donations coordinator: Sean Tevis for Kansas
Contact email: sean@seantevis.com
We're working solutions. Thank you for your patience!
So there you go, if you want to donate right now, there's the link. If you're wary about paypalling some random email address because a guy on the Internet told you to (understandable), the site is currently fighting to stay alive and should be back up sometime. In any case, join the 3000!
EDIT 2: Google cache backup of his website before it got hosed and dugg and all that. It has a link to the donation page!
Credit card donations - https://co.clickandpledge.com/...
Paypal donations - https://www.paypal.com/...
FYI, If you use the credit card donation link, once you fill out the material you'll get an error saying that the thank you page isn't available. That's okay though, the transaction still goes through. If you're still unsure about using that page, there's always Paypal.
EDIT 3: The comic is back! Go check it out, laugh a lot, then join the cause!