Tomorrow is the last day to raise money and supporters for the PFAW Progressive Champion's contest. Currently, MI-09 Democratic candidate Gary Peters is in second place, roughly $2000 behind Judy Feder from the VA-10, for the $3000 prize from PFAW.
Dkos, we need your help to pull this out. If we can get a wave of $20 donations--just 100 of them, we can pull even. So, will you lend us a hand and get us over the hump?
Here's where:
Here's why:
What do you do when you're challenging an 8-term GOP incumbent in a district where the theretofor unknown '06 challenger gamely lost by only 6 percentage points in spite of raising just over $400,000, thus demonstrating that this race is "top tier"? Well, you go out and recruit a top tier candidate and you raise, so far, upwards of $1.3 million dollars, and you get the DCCC to chip in a huge ad buy.
But then, what do you do when the very strength of your candidate causes the GOP incumbent to raise $2.6 million and a national lobbying organization kicks in an ad buy of $530,000? If you're Gary Peters, you go out and work your ass off to raise more money.
And that's why I'm here tonight. We in the 9th District of Michigan are fighting with everything we've got to get Gary Peters elected to congress to replace the origingal member of the League of Conservation Voters' 2008 Dirty Dozen, Joe Knollenberg, removed from office. And though we have raised an astonishing amount of money, we're still at only half of Knollenberg's haul. And he's got Big Three auto money behind him, so there's likely to be more--much more--in the pipeline.
You want grassroots support? We've raised a lot of money, but our opponent has almost twice as much. We've knocked on over 115,000 doors.
Congressional Quarterly, the Cook Political Report and SwingStateProject have all now rated this race a toss-up! Even as recently as today, the Rothenberg Political Report moved the race from "pure toss-up" to "toss-up /tilts Democratic."
You we're asking you tonight to help us even up the score, and if you will help by sending in your contributions through the contest being run by our good friends at People for the American Way's Voters Alliance program, we can pick up an addtional $3000 from PFAW!
Can we get 100 kossacks to contribute $20.00? Two hundred to throw in $10? A mere 20 of you to pony up $100?
We have until tomorrow, October 15, to do this. If you will, please scroll down to Gary's bio and contribution button on the PFAW ActBlue page and lend us a hand.
Oh! And if this is not inducement enough, you ought to know that Desperate Joe has now written a rather pathetic love note to Sarah to save his campaign, now that John McCain left him to fend for himself.
There are plenty of races that need and deserve the support of the progressive community--this community--and the Michigan 9th is one of them.
Thanks for any help you can give us.