It started with a question. “Are you on Twitter,?” asked a Facebook friend, Jamie Carter, whom I have never met in real life. I replied that I had a handle but was not an adept user and did not know “how to light a fire” on that platform. She assured me that she was going to light one for me. She tweeted:
I went on to twitter and tried to reap
a modest harvest off of her tweet. However,
the next day I got up and read in the paper
about Jason Chaffetz imploring folks to make
a wise choice between an iphone and a health care policy. Having learned Tweeting 101 the night before, I wrote the following:
Soon after that, things began to take on a life of
their own. Rosie O’Donnell donated the maximum to my campaign and retweeted me to her million + viewers. My CrowdPac page began to receive so much money that I called the FEC and they advised me to file my candidacy papers, which I did immediately. Later, CrowdPac called me an explained that I had broken their record for the most money raised in 24 hours. This led to a series of interviews by the media culminating in Rachel Maddow devoting the last five minutes of her show to my campaign. She showed my photograph and asked if anyone recognized it. She concluded, “You will soon.” Rachel Maddow’s five minute segment has now generated even more momentum to my nascent campaign. Between my CrowdPac page and ActBlue site, I have raised over $250 K in small donations. But it will likely take millions to unseat such a formidible and entrenched Republican opponent as Chaffetz. Please help me do just that so that he can go play with his iPhone all day. Daily Kos members were my first supporters. They helped me get off the ground in the exploratory phase of my campaign. Now I need your help more than ever. I have not had time to invest in a professional campaign page, but here is my Facebook campaign page: www.facebook.com/... Here’s my ActBlue page: secure.actblue.com/… My bio and platform are on: www.crowdpac.com/… And thanks everyone again! You are an awesome grassroots organization!