First Donation
by goodleh, Wed May 21, 2008 at 11:24:12 PM EST
Today I made my first political donation and I couldn't be more excited about the possibility my contribution could tip the scales in even one race. Normally I don't contribute to the political process monetarily. I'd rather donate my time and energy. But I feel like we have so much going for the Democratic Party that with suffiecent funding we could have some real surprise victories come November. If you've never made a donation before or haven't so far for 2008. I suggest you consider it, you may never have an opportunity to get so much bang for your buck.
So I donated a meager $35 to the DSCC. I fiured that we already have house control and solid prospects going in. Not that the DCCC is a waste by any means, any seat we can get will allow us more control as unfortunately, some of our members may need to pander to their moderate or conservative districts. But Senate control, and true control (ie not this Lieberman crap) would be immensly more influencial.
But here is my real passion, getting the information. I live in a very blue city in a very red state. No competetive districts here or nearby. So here's my question, how do average people find out whom would serve their intrests best in dontating money to. The DNC? DCCC? DSCC? The general election? Individual campaigns? Its such a guessing game and with very little info out there of the strategery of it all.
And one final thing. I know that many of you out there are so very emotionally invested in your candidate of choice, but honestly we are still sending our dollars against each other. If we want to talk unity, lets start with our pocket books. Donate to dems running against repubs. Maybe we need a general election fund that goes to whomever wins the nomination but in the mean time contributers can mark the dollars with candidate support. Not saying they only get the money if their candidate wins, rather stock piling money for the GE and indicating which canidate is bring how much in.
Anyways people, if you can donate what you can, put more good dems in office. And if you can't volunteering is just as needed. We need people phone banking, reistering voters and democrates. Get out there and do something!
Tags: DSCC, DCCC, DNC, contributions, donations (all tags)
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