A month back, I wrote a diary giving an overview of
the two Democratic candidates competing in the Georgia primaries for Lieutenant Governor:
Greg Hecht and
Jim Martin. Well, the Georgia state primaries
start in six days, and here's your chance to help the winner of these primaries beat Ralph Reed or Ralph's Republican primary opponent,
Casey Cagle (whose
campaign Web site really isn't all that shabbily designed, actually).
More on the jump.
The Public Campaign Action Fund, an advocacy group working for clean money in clean elections, is currently
raising money to run an ad that exposes Ralph Reed's utter hypocrisy and corruption, and why he is completely unfit to lead as GA's Lt. Governor:
Georgia's primary is six days away and Ralph Reed just loaned his campaign $500,000 from his personal accounts. Reed became wealthy from contracts he got through convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Reed is pulling out all the stops, and so are we. Tomorrow we will air a new television ad that uses Ralph Reed's own words against him to expose who he really is.
Reed spun his relationships with Christian organizations into personal gold by using them as fronts for Abramoff's sleazy clients. Now he's taking that money to try to buy an election. Let's not forget that his money came from lobbying for casinos and for the Northern Marianas Islands where employers forced their female workers to have abortions and to become prostitutes.
And that's exactly the message we will deliver to Republican voters in the TV ad that begins tomorrow. We've purchased 633 individual 30-second cable television spots in some of the most Republican counties in the state. Every $50 helps us buy another.
Polls show many Republican voters are still undecided about their pick for the Lieutenant Governor nomination. Ralph Reed has sidestepped the tough questions all through his campaign, and he's hoping voters don't care. It's time to lay the facts bare.
Please give what you can to keep our ad on the air through primary election day.
Thanks in advance for your help.
P.S. If you'd prefer to send a check in the mail, send it to Campaign Money Watch, 1320 19th Street, NW, Suite M-1, Washington, DC 20036. Contributions are not tax deductible, and please include your employer and occupation with donations of $200 and above. Campaign Money Watch cannot accept anonymous contributions.
I'm posting this because I got the alert in my inbox this morning, but can't donate because I am WAY stretched past my donation means this month. The financial consequences of donating to gazillions of Democratic candidates have caught up with me, unluckily. That's why I was hoping a few Kossacks could pick up the slack in my temporary donating absence.
Thanks in advance for any donation you can make to this cause--Reed is a vile person in a squeaky-clean-cut package who is not worthy of serving as dog catcher, let alone Georgia's lieutenant governor, and he needs to be exposed for his real "values" (or lack thereof).
A related radio ad from Campaign Money Watch is available for your listening pleasure here.