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 was a fantastic day here on My Daily Donation - details below the fold, but it's enough that I'm sending $40 more to Patty Wetterling today!
I hope you'll follow me below the fold for a rant about numbers, a blurb about Larry, and of course my donation history.
Here's Larry's website.
Here's my ActBlue page.
We didn't quite get the ten donors I set as the goal for tripling my contribution - but we came close enough. Many, many thanks to
treehugger,
Christopher Walker,
catadromous,
mndan,
desertguy, and others for making yesterday great.
Let's look at some numbers.
27 - OK, you know that one - that's how many days are left.
5,000 - we've burst through that number of total dollars raised so far.
100 - we have exceeded that many donors.
210 - that's how much we raised for Patty Weterling yesterday, from
9 - how many donors.
30 - that's how many seats Chris Bowers is daring to say we might pick up this year
So let's just kick back and relax. We can coast now, right? It's all downhill from here.
NOT!
When we're behind, it's the time to do everything we can to win. When we're neck-and-neck, it's time to do everything we can to win. And when we're winning [sing it with me]: it's time to do everything we can to win!
I'm delighted to see Chris' forecast, and I share his optimism. But if we pull it off, it will be because we've gotten off our fat asses and done the work to make it happen. And given money to make it happen. Did I mention money? There's one other number I want to share:
88.94 - Larry Kissell's cash on hand.
So can you help him out? Let's put some Democrats back in power, even in the South. Larry's running a fine grassroots campaign against an unpopular incumbent, when the country's mood is decidedly blue. Can you help him out? I can - Larry, here's $20. Let's see if we can get ten more twenties for you today; let's triple your COH!
Hat tip to Christopher Walker for suggesting Larry.
Day | Candidate | Amount | Matching funds from other Kossacks |
E-56 | Jack Carter | $100 | $200 |
E-55 | Susan Davis | $20 | $50 |
E-54 | Francine Busby | $50 | $125 |
E-53 | John Rinaldi | $20 | $90 |
E-52 | Ron Klein | $25 | $70 |
E-51 | Sherrod Brown | $25 x 2 | $80 |
E-50 | Ned Lamont | $20 x 2 | $115 |
E-49 | Phil Angelides | $20 x 2 | $80 |
E-48 | Charlie Brown | $20 x 2 | $165 |
E-47 | Victoria Wulsin | $25 x 2 | $165 |
E-46 | James Webb | $20 x 2 | $110 |
E-45 | Gabrielle Giffords | $20 x 2 | $90 |
E-44 | Debra Bowen | $100 x 2 | $520 |
E-43 | Jon Tester | $20 | $70 |
E-42 | Tammy Duckworth | $20 x 2 | $90 |
E-41 | Maxine Waters | $20 | $0 |
E-40 | Jim Brandt | $20 x 2 | $165 |
E-39 | Coleen Rowley | $20 x 2 | $275 |
E-38 | Dan Seals | $20 x 3 | $430 |
E-37 | John Laesch | $20 x 2 | $150 |
E-36 | Zachary Space | $20 x 2 | $130 |
E-35 | Scott Kleeb | $20 x 2 | $90 |
E-34 | Nancy Skinner | $20 x 2 | $145 |
E-33 | Mary Jo Kilroy | $20 x 2 | $125 |
E-32 | Eric Massa | $20 x 2 | $20 |
E-31 | Christine Jennings | $20 x 2 | $110 |
E-30 | Darcy Burner | $20 x 2 | $135 |
E-29 | Jill Derby | $20 x 2 | $47 |
E-28 | Patty Wetterling | $20 x 3 | $190 |
E-27 | Larry Kissell | $20 | $0 |
TOTAL | | $1375 | $4032 |