There's a diary scrolling down you should read. Our friend and fellow Kossack Scott Kleeb had a debate with his self-funded opponent in the primary race, and did so well even his opponent was full of praise.
Scott is the very model of the grassroots candidate we pine for everywhere. He's smart, humble, honest, photogenic as they come. He's asking us to help him finance and run his campaign so he doesn't have to sell out to politics as usual. Until we get enough Scott Kleebs in Congress to pass true public campaign financing, candidates like Scott will depend on us, the public, to finance his campaign.
When he's president Barack Obama will need all the progressives in Congress he can get. Please look in on the Kleeb campaign's diary, and spare some help if you can.
Oh crap, I'm on the rec list for a pimp diary. Better put in a little substance, I guess.
Working for and donating to candidates like Scott Kleeb is a new way of thinking of representative democracy. Those of us who don't live in NE can still be represented by wonderful people like Scott, because he has already made us part of his constituency. Political constituencies no longer have to be delimited by gerrymandered lines, but can extend across the country.
We are now free to choose our representatives, wherever they are geographically based. If you're stuck with Inhofe and Coburn, or DeMint and Graham, you can still have an outstanding senator in Scott Kleeb or Larry LaRocco. (Or even Andrew Rice!) We must use this new forum to find our candidates and invite them to represent us, just as they represent their own states or districts.
2008 is about a lot more than a presidential race. We have a movement to build, a Congress to take back, and a country to change. No president can do that alone, even if s/he could walk on water. Spread your attention and your help and your bucks to all those excellent people who can truly change our country, and who are putting themselves on the line to represent us.
THINK MOVEMENT, PEOPLE!