A few days ago, PigsandBattleships had a diary called
Target: Mike Oxley (R-OH-4), which had talked about Mike Oxley and the Democrat that is running against him for that seat,
Ben Konop. I added a comment thanking Marcy Kaptur, because she's been active in getting Democrats running for Ohio's Congressional seats.
Lo and behold, yesterday I received a nice email from Ben Konop out of the blue:
Wayne,
Hi, I'm Ben Konop and I'm running for Congress against Mike Oxley. I just saw your post re our campaign on Daily Kos. I agree, Marcy has done a great job. She's really my political mentor.
So far the campaign is going well. Oxley has already started attacking me. He actually had one of his minions call me "a puppet of Marcy Kaptur" to which I replied, I'd rather be a puppet of Marcy than a puppet of the fat cat DC lobbyists, etc...
And we just filmed our first ad today which will begin airing in a couple weeks. I think we've got some momentum and if this Freddie Mac scandal breaks we could really be in business.
Keep spreading the word about our campaign. It really means a lot to us.
Thanks, Ben
And I thought, now that's cool, he's here and checking things out. I was so impressed I had to contribute to his campaign.
This lead me to wonder - how many other current candidates for public office are here at Daily Kos? So here comes the obvious poll question...