I asked Chris for some space to write here because as a member of Ginny Schrader's staff I am in debt to Chris and to all of those who were inspired to contribute to Ginny's campaign.

With the help and vision of people like Chris and Stephen Yellin and through the excitement of all you who personally invested yourselves in our campaign, we didn't just raise nearly $40,000 in the first hours after Jim Greenwood told us he was stepping down, we were given our first footing into legitimacy. It made it a whole lost easier to talk to reporters when I could brag about how much we had raised in such a short time. As Chris, Stephen and many of you will remember, the days following July 19 were dicey ones for Ginny. And those of us who had been there during the quixotic prelude to Ginny Schrader, Blogosphere Phenomenon, were fighting  the rumblings we felt, while never actually hearing, regarding Ginny's remaining in the race.

If the notion of competing in each and every seat ever needed an exclamation point, Ginny Schrader is it. Not too many people know that the guy who Ginny beat in the primary was a pro-life Republican who had lost to Greenwood in at least two previous primaries. This time around, it was his plan to Trojan Horse the Democratic party so he could challenge the pro-choice Greenwood from the right. Had Ginny not been there, this guy would have been the Democratic nominee in a top-ten race. Sure, they could have tried to get him out. But I heard stories about this guy. It would not have been pretty.

And this is what a Congressional district was almost reduced to--a district with a 53% Democratic performance rating and gaining in registration. A gob of Democratic votes had recently been carved into the district in an attempt to make the 13th more competitive for Republicans. It was expected that Greenwood could absorb those votes, but how about someone else?

And yet Ginny Schrader was the only real Democrat to step to the plate ensuring that the Eighth District of Pennsylvania would not go down without a fight. And she is for the things that we are for and she makes no bones about it. And sure, maybe with some digging, they could have found a replacement, someone with higher name ID, maybe someone who could self-finance and boy wouldn't that have been great?

But we knew that wasn't right and most of you knew that too. And when another five-thousand came raining in moments after a DCCC spokesperson gave a "no comment" to a reporter for The Hill we laughed our butts off.

Like I said, NO ONE, ever asked us to step aside. And this is to everyone's credit. We must compete in every seat, in every state including the old CSA and those candidates, many of them, like Ginny, just regular people with a lot of guts, deserve everything we can put behind them.

And in return we get a voice in the process. Which is why I would like to hear everything you have to say, ask or curse about Ginny's race. One thing we know is that unlike the Republicans, we do not have a Centralized Strategic Brain from which our political strategy exudes. No larva laden queen is tapped into our nervous system. And of course we all know this is a very good thing. But maybe technology can provide us with a suitable prosthetic so that we might get this sucker on the same page in time for '06.