(IL-06) Duckworth fundraising goals and Roskam dirt

As we come down the stretch here in the final days I have good news from the frontlines and Tammy's fundraising goals for the final week. Read on for links to her new commercials, how the race looks now directly from the frontsteps of suburban Chicago, my encounter with a crabby woman and well...more begging from me.  

First of all as anybody knows who has read the frontpage we have new poll results. According to RT Strategies Tammy is up 48-47% as of last Tuesday to Thursday. Of interest it shows we're up in the south of the district +4 but down in the north -2. Towns like Lombard in the south have looked pretty good from the beginning, I actually talked to a woman who worked for the Repubs who said with a little coaxing she was voting for Tammy. I've canvassed some of those precincts pretty heavily for the lovely and talented Nicole, the York township goddess and even those who say they won't vote for Tammy thank me for coming by. Roskam grew up down there in Glen Ellyn and lives in Wheaton. But much like my own town of Downers Grove just to the south most of the people he and I grew up with now live somewhere else. It always kills me when his supporters say Tammy doesn't know the district because the district they used to know just isn't the same.

I spent the weekend in up north hitting virgin territory. On Saturday I had 3 women from Loyola whose names I should have written down cuz I can't spell them and a guy named Nate from Northwestern in my car. The girls said I sound like Jack Nicholson which I get a lot. When I do I trot out that line from Batman, "What this town needs is an enema!". That's always good for a laugh. Sunday I took Corrine from AZ, Natalie and Phil to their routes and did my own. I gave them all the benefit of my advice whether they wanted it or not. Frankly they're all probably as good or better at this than I am.

It looks to me like the undecideds are making up their minds and falling our way. Hardly got any of the "she wants to raise my taxes and give it to immigrants" morons this weekend. When I do I tell 'em she doesn't want to raise your taxes or my taxes, she wants to raise Paris Hilton's taxes.  

Spent 10 minutes explaining her position on immigration to one woman but encouraged her to go to the website before and after to confirm it. People really do like it when you provide them with information and offer that website as confirmation. Tammy and her staff make it easy by having 14 policy papers there on everything from immigration to taxes to Iraq to you name it, where you can get her real story, not that garbage you see in the Republican commercials. That gives me that nice lead in to Roskam's website where he only has 6 policy papers and not one word about Iraq, Afghanistan or Al Qaeda. I like ticking them off on my fingers for effect. Do I seem to be repeating myself? Well I can't emphasize enough the points that seem to work.

Roskam, the RNC and the NRCC are all spending like drunken sailors on this campaign. They flew in about 80 staffers from DC to be doorhangers over the weekend. They actually mailed packages to people, about 7"x3"x1" labelled "America's start up kit" on the outside. Inside is just 3 pieces of attack ads slandering Tammy. That's a whole lot of money to trick people into looking at that junk. Anyway here is Tammy's latest ad: "Questions". Check it out, it's exactly what we need now. It's all about Iraq and doing what Lil Petey can't even bring himself to talk about. His endgame commercial seems to be lying straight into the camera after his wife says the only thing they've banned in their home is "speedos". It's all yucks at Ozzie and Harriet Roskam's home.  

We have the big final push coming up this weekend and Monday and Tuesday. If you can please come out and help with GOTV. We need to beat their vaunted 72 hour plan with our own. Nobody's poll numbers are strong here, we need all the help we can get to push her over the top.

I know you're tired of hearing it but Tammy also needs big bucks to get this commercial on the air. I guarantee from everything I've read this will not only help Tammy pull away but these images will benefit all Dems in the Chicagoland TV market. Dissatisfaction with Iraq is the bottom line here.

I'll let Tammy speak from the email itself:

It is expensive to run a television advertisement in the Chicagoland area.  This ad is an integral part of our final push to win this election.  I need your help to keep the ad running through Election Day.  We cannot let Peter "Rubber Stamp" Roskam win because he has more money from the Congressional leadership.

P.S. Help keep the ad on the air, make a contribution of $50, $100 or $200.

All of the polls put this race at a dead heat.  I have faith that we will win.  And when we do win the reason will be your support.

You have done so much for our campaign already but we need you to do more.  All of your work has put us within reach and now we need your help for this last stretch.

Help score a major victory for change, make a contribution of $50, $100 or $200.

Recently, we set a goal of raising $200,000 online between October 1st and Election Day to match the $200,000 Peter "Rubber Stamp" Roskam has received from the Congressional leaders.  I am proud to announce that we have raised over $250,000, surpassing the money that Peter Roskam has received from the scandal-plagued Congressional leadership.

Based on your previous support, I am setting a goal of $100,000 to be raised online between now and Election Day.  This money will help keep our ad on the air and support our GOTV operation.

Help us reach our goal of $100,000 online, make a contribution of $50, $100 or $200.

I appreciate all of the support you have given throughout this campaign, it is because of you that we are as close as we are.  Thank you for everything.

Thank you,

Tammy Duckworth

P.S. Continue to support my campaign for change, make a contribution of $50, $100 or $200.