Help Blue America Award A $5,000 Check-- And Join Us For Lunch With Darcy Burner On Tuesday
We've had tremendous interest in our little Blue America contest that Crooks & Liars and our blogging partners at Firedoglake, Digby and DownWithTyranny started last Saturday. So far our $5,000 seed money has brought in close to $20,000 spread out between our 9 candidates. It's been a see saw battle between Annette Taddeo (D-FL), Russ Warner (D-CA) and Debbie Cook (D-CA), although both Dennis Shulman (D-NJ) and Sam Bennett (D-PA) have been moving up and are in striking distance. In terms of cash, Debbie Cook's campaign alone went over the $5,000 mark this morning! You can "vote" and follow the competition on our special Blue America Contest page.
A new twist, though: a generous donor has offered Blue America PAC another $1,250 for a second check-- kind of a runner up prize-- if we can raise enough money in the PAC to match it. So... please think about donating to the PAC as well. That way on Saturday we'll be awarding a $5,000 check to whomever gets the most votes and a $2,500 to whomever comes in second.
And for Crooks & Liars readers in southern California, we're having an intimate lunch with Darcy Burner (D-WA) this coming Tuesday at noon in Silverlake. If you'd like to join John Amato, Digby and myself in welcoming Darcy to Los Angeles, all the info is at DownWithTyranny.
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Perhaps when the gang from Crooks and Liars has dinner with Darcy Burner they might deign to ask this [alleged] bastion of liberalism what her views are on the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan since her web site makes absolutely no mention of that debacle and consequently does not tell her devoted followers that innocent Afghan civilians and children are being slaughtered by 500 and 2000 lb. American bombs. Perhaps it would not do for Ms. Burner's web site to reveal those facts since it might remind her readers that her party's nominee wishes not to decrease but to ADD more troops to that country, thus increasing the suffering and misery of the Afghan people.
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