Please take a listen at Blue Jersey Radio tonight at 8pm, where NJ-4 Democratic Candidate Josh Zeitz will be a guest. The radio feed streams live
This is a district we can win, and we need to get behind Josh. We have some real opportunities in NJ to turn districts from red to blue.
Chris Smith is an extreme right-winger on social issues, especially relating to reproductive rights. He is the chair of the House anti-choice caucus who has, for example, introduced a constitutional amendment to ban oral contraception. He’s also backed the Bush-McCain Iraq policy from day one.
We need to defeat him and turn NJ-4 blue! More after the jump.
Josh is a career educator, born and raised in the district, who will bring fresh ideas to Congress.
Please take a listen tonight, have a question or two to call in with at (646) 652-2773 and I know you’ll like what you hear. For more on Josh’s appearance, check out the diary on Blue Jersey.
To volunteer for the campaign, please get in touch with me: ian_at_joshzeitz_dot_com. I am a volunteer myself, and serve as Josh’s Netroots Outreach Coordinator.
I started Americans for Ryan some months back to try and raise $1500 for Heather Ryan by the time of the Kentucky primary she was unopposed in. Now, shortly after I did this I lost almost a whole month of working on this project when I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. Despite this setback, my fellow Democrats in the blogosphere came through nicely for me. I can proudly say today, that because of you I shattered my goal by May 20. Instead of $1500, I managed to raise $1745!!!
Yes, Americans for Ryan has been a smashing success so far!! This district is winnable. We have a great candidate, we just have to give her the resources she needs!! Many of you came through nicely. During this time, our candidate Heather Ryan has evolved into a tough campaigner who isn’t going to take anything whatsoever from the McConnell machine here in Kentucky. If you don’t believe me, check out these speeches from Heather:
I am particularly proud of that last speech. That is exactly what Democrats need to sound like in this election year!!
Heather also acknowledged our efforts in this interview last week:
Yes Heather, we must fight for all our fine Democrats everywhere!! Our new President needs an expanded majority!!
Now with that in mind today starts a new fundraising period, and brings about a new goal. I hope to have my page to $5000 by July the 4th, the “Independence from Exxon Eddie” fundraiser!! Thats leaves me $3255 from my goal by July 4!! Kentuckians and indeed Americans need “Independence from Exxon Eddie”, because with all his Exxon and Chevron stock he is voting against legislation to make Alternative and Renewable energy feasible. Yes, Exxon Eddie votes his stock options. Here is what Heather thinks about the promise of Renewable Energy:
Now in the coming few days I will be digging up a couple of new prizes out of my collection of historical political memorabilia to hold another drawing for everyone who donates between May 21 and July 4. Please watch for that in the next couple of days.
But first, I must announce the winner of the drawing for these two pinback buttons from the 1960 campaign of JFK:
Now, this morning I took all the names that had contributed on or before May 20, excluding myself, my father, and my girlfriend and wrote them on individual pieces of paper. I put them in a jar, lidded it, shook it up real good and let my girlfriend draw a name. The winner was an awesome Democrat I have seen on Kos and EENRblog. I won’t give her real name, but her username on these sites is valsagem.
So to valsagem, your a winner!!! Your buttons will be sent out today or tomorrow. To everyone else, thank you so much for your support. I wish I could send something to everyone to show my appreciation. In the next couple of days I should have to new prizes up for our “Independence from Exxon Eddie” fundraiser, so please keep wathching!!
Please continue to support our efforts to expand our Congressional majorities with a “Fighting Democrat” that will fight for us. Go here to make our next fundraiser a success, and enter our new drawing for our new prizes. I will be posting them in the next couple of days.:
[GOP Rep. Thaddeus McCotter] also called for more out-of-the-box strategies, such as proposing a theme of “Nancy Pelosi, the San Francisco Threat,” sung to the tune of the Rice-a-Roni jingle.
That April fundraising gap is actually not too shabby for Republicans, but one has to wonder if the GOP’s backbreaking loss in Mississippi last week will deflate their fundraising appeal in the months to come.
The poll pegs Musgrave’s job approval rating at 40%, while 51% of voters disapprove of her performance in Congress.
It’s an internal poll, so skepticism is expected. But the Musgrave campaign’s response caught my eye:
Musgrave supporters, however, said it’s much too early to count her out of the race. Guy Short, Musgrave’s chief of staff, said a poll done by the Musgrave camp in March showed her leading 47 percent to 42 percent.
Even if Musgrave’s internal poll is a more accurate snapshot of this race, a GOP incumbent leading an unknown Democrat by a mere 47-42 margin in an R+8.5 district is hardly a stellar performance. I’ll take either set of numbers here.
I’m not sure about the Republican side, but Perdue just came out of a contentious Democratic primary that saw a fair share of negative advertising, so this is a pretty decent place to start the race at.
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