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Monday, August 01, 2005
OH-02: Once More Unto the Breach
Posted by Bob BrighamHere's the situation, the Paul Hackett decided to shoot the moon. Ohio's second congressional district favors Republicans by 30 pts. Running a safe campaign would result in failure.
Paul Hackett is a Fighting Democrat and he's gambling, pushing, pull out all of the stops and running like his life depends upon it (if he loses, he'll probably be sent back in Iraq).
To Get Out the Vote, we need to raise $30,000 today. Here's why.
Last week, the netroots stepped up and delivered around $40K a day. The campaign gambled and put all of that on TV (the ads are great and a Democrat is leading the Republicans in gross points in every market in every medium!!!).
It worked, and now Independents are breaking rapidly our way. And Democrats in the district are so fired up that the far more than expected are signing up for GOTV.
This has drastically increased the cost of the GOTV mobilization. The enthusiasm over the weekend was more than expected and more was spend during the huge door-to-door effort. Now the campaign needs money for tomorrow to finish the job.
The cost breaks down to around $50 a precinct with 600 precincts. The netroots best friend, Matt from ActBlue, is flying in right now to coordinate moving the money.
But we need enough to finish the job.
Your investments have made Hackett a contender. Please give one more time so we can win this in the field.
Posted at 10:27 AM in Ohio | Technorati
Comments
I gave $20 yesterday. Come on, peeps!
if he loses, he'll probably be sent back in Iraq -- ummm, I'd say if he wins, he'll also porbably be sent back to Iraq. How is it his choice one way or the other?
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at August 1, 2005 11:13 AM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment
I have to admit, I'm pretty nervous. I sent in $50 a few days ago from down here in TX, and I just sent in another $50. It's not that the $100 is going to kill my budget, it's just that I'm actually putting money in and daring to hope. I'm not sure how many more times I can afford to hope these days.
Posted by: Chaos Richard at August 1, 2005 11:20 AM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment
Im a broke ass college kid from Dundalk, MD... But even I can scrounge up 20 bucks. Come on people just 20 more bucks!
Posted by: nickshepDEM at August 1, 2005 11:25 AM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment
Just sent $25 from down here in Florida.
Posted by: trillian at August 1, 2005 11:52 AM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment
i'll kick in a few more bucks today. like my fellow texan above, i'm betting on hope this time.
i haven't been this excited since the dem primaries. it's all about hope, people. let's win this one and send a veteran to congress!
Posted by: annatopia at August 1, 2005 12:13 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment
I have been living among some of the most bigoted people in the world that try to only instill fear on others and lie to keep that fear going...
Like Cunningham of WLW who said that Paul Hackett was behind the burning of the flags in Fairfield... But now we all know who burnt those flags.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/i...nws- flag30.html
Cunningham owes Paul Hackett an apology! And so does ever other media outlet that didn't report on Cunningham's ignorant and hate filled rantings towards Paul Hackett.
Posted by: The Smoke eter at August 1, 2005 01:15 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment
C'mon guys! I gave $30 yesterday, and another $30 today. Like Paul, I'm an Iraq vet, and it's about time that someone who's been there gets up to DC to tell it like it is.
Posted by: Raf at August 1, 2005 02:10 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment