The Second Quarter Push at Blue Majority

by Jonathan Singer, Wed Jun 27, 2007 at 12:42:48 PM EST

Over at Blue Majority, this cycle's version of the Netroots Candidates list on Act Blue put together by the folks here at MyDD along with the folks at Daily Kos and Swing State Project, we're having our first big fundraising push of the year on behalf of the two candidates on the list thus far: Al Wynn-foe Donna Edwards and soon-to-be John Doolittle-slayer Charlie Brown. For those unfamiliar with these two candidates, Matt had a great post on Edwards, who is running in Maryland's fourth district, here, and Markos had a great post recently on Brown, who is running in California's fourth district, here.

We are not making a huge ask today, but it's an important one. We're fast approaching the end of the second fundraising quarter -- all contributions need to be in by the end of the day on June 30 -- so we are asking folks to chip in $10 for Edwards and Brown, and we would like to see 100 new contributions for each of them by the end of the day Saturday.

So let's make our mark on these important races at this critical early stage in the campaign. Head on over to the Blue Majority page on Act Blue and show your support for Brown and Edwards today.

(For more on this effort, head on over to Swing State Project)




Tags: Blue Majority, Charlie Brown, Donna Edwards, BlogPac, House 2008 (all tags)

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Re: The Second Quarter Push at Blue Majority (none / 0)

How about getting Dan Seals on the list, or Larry Kissel.  Both, I think, were Netroots candidates last time around, and both are running again.

Both should get legit DCCC support this time, but I know Dan also has to get by a primary challenge from a LieberDem.  


by JJCPA on Wed Jun 27, 2007 at 02:14:29 PM EST

Re: The Second Quarter Push at Blue Majority (none / 0)

Joe Sestak ain't the only one on your "Netroots Candidates" list who voted to fund Steny Hoyer's War in Iraq.

feh to pro-War candidates.


by jfrjfrjfr on Wed Jun 27, 2007 at 05:29:12 PM EST

Re: The Second Quarter Push at Blue Majority (none / 0)

Donated my $10 (plus $2 tip to ActBlue) to Charlie Brown today. I always feel a sexy chill when I donate to progressive activists, probably because progressive politics is just SO sexy.

As always, thanks for reminding me to donate to our progressive leaders mydd. I'd be holding on to my money otherwise.


by theantidesi101 on Wed Jun 27, 2007 at 10:41:46 PM EST

What about incumbents? (Cross-posted from SSP) (none / 0)

I was apprehensive about the Lamont (along with the Donna Edwards, Winograd, etc.) campaigns last year because I felt that the money, time, and energy would better be spent defeating Republicans.  However, the recent weakness of the Democratic Congress, from the secret trade deals of Charlie Rangel (let's find a challenger for him, please?) to John Dingell's attempt to gut state carbon dioxide regulations has convinced me that we also need to clean our own house, so to speak.  In my opinion, the corporate, elitist, legally corrupt "moderates" are a major drag on our party whether it comes from vacillitating on Iraq when the majority of Americans want out or the failure to do more on corruption.  So, I fully support efforts to replace the yellow streak Democrats with true Democrats.
But there seems to be a chink in the netroots fundraising logic.  Money for progressive Democrats to take out status quo Democrats.  Like I said, great.  Money for Democrats to take out Republicans.  Needless to say, that's wonderful, too.  But what about money for Democrats already in office who stay true to (or adopt, we're always glad to have converts) progressive ideals?  Perhaps having a source for money outside of elitist sources (especially from corporate PACs and individuals whose requests go against Democratic/Progressive ideals such as labor rights and environmentalism) would keep and bring more Democrats to the fold.  

After all, most of our gains were in suburban areas (New York City, Denver, Philadelphia, San Francisco, etc) in expensive media markets.


by TheUnknown285 on Thu Jun 28, 2007 at 09:24:17 AM EST


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