Several days ago, my wife and I came home from supporting the local GLBT Coming Out Day event--part of a group of churches showing that there are plenty of faith communities that support and embrace this community. She'd been speaking to one of the No on 8 organizers and was really, really pissed off at the huge funding of the Yes campaign by the LDS Church.
When we got home, I was instructed to go and make a donation to the No campaign--and when I asked how much, was told "$1500." That's the largest donation we've ever made to any political cause, and we'll feel it. It's staggering, because I'm the one that usually makes donations... and she chooses to not really ask how much (partially because I always start answering with "It's cheaper than moving to Canada..." and she doesn't probe after that).
But since she donated that much without consulting, I think I can...
I've already donated over $500 to Scott Kleeb.
But I don't think that that there's any Senate seat that I'd be happier to see go blue this cycle.
So, in the words of Molly Ivin's favorite yappy Chihuahua, "Here's the deal."
I'm offering up to $1000--but it's a match. Now I know you clowns can match that easy. So I want to make you sweat a little for it.
I'll donate $1 for every dollar that you donate AND get a match for--so that Kleeb gets three-for-one. Post it here. I'll accept a thread where someone's donated and someone else matches it. I'll accept pointers to posts in mcjoan's FP post where someone donated... if you match that.
Go for it. Endanger my marriage (more than gay marriage, for sure); make me cough up the full amount.