This morning, when our own llbear got up, he apparently noticed that our fund-raising for Netroots For The Troops had not quite made the total -- $35,000 – that we had hoped for.
In fact, we were almost $2000 short – and, of course, the packing takes place tomorrow.
Not that anything like a shortfall would dissuade our awesome TexDem from getting this project finished tomorrow. But there are always last-minute costs . . . and every dollar matters.
(continue please, for more breaking awesome community news and actual pooties)
So . . . llbear posted an afternoon diary asking for every last dollar anyone could give to help us meet our goal.
It was teh awesome!
llbear managed to weave Meteor Blades, NFTT, IGTNT, KelleyRN2 AND Sara R into the title (and, cleverly, into the diary) . . . with this line-up, the diary was guaranteed to have 100 percent pootie approval!
(h/t to Ebby and her Sammy, who is featured here, doing the good DKos pootie thing!)
And it did!
But the money? Would it come?
The countdown toward the goal started at 2:33 pm PST. At 2:33 pm PST, NFTT was still almost $2,000 short of its goal.
The money started pouring in.
Our awesome bubbanomics put up an incredible match and soon all his moneys was were taken.
I worked happily with my calculator and watched the "still don't have" drop and drop and drop.
But I had to abandon the effort around 7 pm Eastern Time when we were still several hundred dollars short of the miracle. Not that I would have been blogging at work, of course. Because that would be wrong.
So Drumroll and Champagne:
Guess what: as of 7 pm PST – WE HAVE MADE OUR GOAL!!! Yup!!
We have the full $35,000. Thanks to all of you. Thanks to this community, for reaching into sofa cushions and giving up lunches and doing whatever else all of you did to make this possible.
Tears of gratitude to this amazingly generous community. I know so many of you are having a hard time financially this year – thank you all so much for this great gift to our soldiers, sailors, Airmen, Marines and National Guard!
Special thanks to TexDem for organizing this.
And . . .
Gold star for YOU, dear llbear for making it possible tonight to say: WE ARE AT 100 PERCENT!!!
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