Spend Your Stimulus Check On A Kossack Running For Office!

Hello everybody.  My name is Donald Bortz.  For the past four years, DailyKos has known me as djtyg.

A few days ago I posted a diary declaring my intention to run for office.  Being inspired by NYBri's 2006 campaign, I decided to run for County Commissioner of Oakland County, Michigan.

Oakland County has been reliably Republicon for the past 30 years.  But that started changing in 2002 when David Woodward became chair of the Oakland County Democratic Party.  In 2004 our county won the vote for John Kerry.  In 2006 we went blue for our Governor, Jennifer Granholm.  This election our Repug County Executive will have a strong challenger for the first time since the 1990's.  Our county's 25 member board went from having six Democratic members to 12 in four years.  We're one seat away from ending three decades of Republicon rule in one of Michigan's largest counties.

Go below to learn more...

I'm a proud Democrat and an even prouder Kossack.  Which is why I'm asking my fellow netroots activists to help me run for office.

Will you please donate to my campaign?  Anything you can give-$20, $50, heck, max out your donation and give me $500!  You'll still have $100 from your government stimulus package to spend!:)

Your donation will go towards yard signs, direct mailings, newspaper advertisements, and supplies needed to run a campaign.  In return, you get the satisfaction of knowing that you're helping more and better Democrats get elected to office, as well as the comfort of knowing that Bush's bribe is going towards something that would really tick him off.  And we all love ticking Bush off:).

So please!  Rec this diary, donate some cash, and tip me below.  Thanks for listening.

UPDATE: Contributions are made with PayPal, but if you don't have a PayPal account, credit cards will still work.  I'd do this through ActBlue, but they don't support local candidates as of yet.

•  Tip Jar!

  Thanks for the mojo:).

  by djtyg on Fri May 09, 2008 at 12:02:49 PM PDT

•  Wow

  My wife is from Pontiac.  I will clue her in and have her do her thing with locals she knows.

  by egarratt on Fri May 09, 2008 at 12:07:12 PM PDT

•  Thanks for sticking your neck out. Good luck.

  by ronlib on Fri May 09, 2008 at 01:38:41 PM PDT

•  Real-life citizen candidates are teh awesome!

  Though I don't live in Michigan, I'm so grateful to you for tossing your hat in the ring and running for county commissioner.  Having sensible people at the helm in local government positions has repercussive effects that lift us all up.

  Good luck with your campaign, and keep asking us for support!  Many of us can't pitch in every time a candidate asks us for a contribution, but it's wonderful to be reminded that there are good causes for the days when we can give something.

  by MsSpentyouth on Fri May 09, 2008 at 01:47:05 PM PDT