Earlier this month Daily Kos endorsed Christina Hartman for Pennsylvania's open 16th Congressional District, part of our effort to identify strong Democratic candidates targeting GOP-held seats this year who could benefit from your support.
Hartman's Republican opponent Lloyd Smucker has noticed, and in a new fundraising email his campaign is sounding the alarm bells to supporters. Oh noes! The radical ultra progressives are on the move!
Recently, the Daily Kos, a liberal, left wing but influential website endorsed our opponent. They only support candidates who believe the same ultra progressive agenda that they do. Their agenda is bad for America and bad for the residents of the 16th district.This endorsement will open the floodgates of financial support for her.
We are not taking anything for granted in this election. That is why we need your help today.
Would you be willing to contribute $10, $25 or $100 today? to help us fight back against their liberal message?
Lloyd is running for Congress to protect the American dream. To keep our families safe and get our great nation back on track. [...]
Well golly, doesn't that sound alarming. Smucker is a tea partyesque would-be House member, as is fitting in the era of Trump, whose own terse "issues" page is devoted to promising his base that he will repeal Obamacare, punish states that don't appropriately despise "illegal aliens," and so forth. But he can't do those things if the left-wing ultra progressives gum up the works by supporting a candidate who thinks we have better things to spend our time on than holding still more votes to repeal the only substantive healthcare reform the nation has had in many years or making sure undocumented kids aren’t getting vaccinated or educated if it would cost the rest of us a few thin dimes.
All right, so we've got his attention. Now let's make it hurt. If Smucker can use his mailing list to warn that the Daily Kos "ultra progressives" have endorsed his opponent, let's use this opportunity to show just what a Daily Kos endorsement is worth. Let's send another round of donations to Christina Hartman, and help the Democratic voters in Pennsylvania’s 16th District send not another House Republican into the next Congress, but a Rep. Christina Hartman instead.
Click here and donate $3 to Christina Hartman's campaign.