In the wee hours of Monday morning, maddened by the Foley cover-up, I researched the 5 cover-up ringleaders, created an
Act Blue page for the Foley Five Democratic challengers and wrote an
impassioned diary. By day two
we'd raised $1000.
Now John Laesch, running against Denny Hastert, has weighed in.
Now Danny Stover, running against John Shimkus, has the rop-rated diary on Daily Kos.
Now we've raised $2000 from 20 contributors.
What next?
Can we do more?
Spread the word.
- This diary can be cut and pasted to email lists, blogs, etc.
- Cut and paste into your Daily Kos signature:
<a href="http://www.actblue.com/page/foleyfive">Fight the Foley Five!</a>
- Anyone want to build out a Foley Five website? Or even just register the domain and point it at the Act Blue site?
Be active.
- Volunteer for one of the candidates -- some of the long-shots, in particular, would greatly benefit from some web or other support.
- OP-EDs!!!! This is something that BEGS for letters to the editor. Write to your local paper. Or if you live in the district of one of these scumbags, write to the local papers of all of them. The letter writes itself.
- Get the Foley Five challengers all on board. Help Mort Meier, Jack Davis, and Gloria Hearn step up their campaigns and introduce themselves to the blogosphere.
Contribute.
Money to these candidates, win or lose, is one of the most efficient ways of fighting the Foley Five and the corrupt GOP in general. This story isn't going anywhere, and the better prepared and mobilized our candidates are the harder the hits on the Foley Five, the more effective the journalism exposing these cretins for the predator-coddling power-mad sleazoids they truly are.
ActBlue.com/page/foleyfive