Take the MOMocrats $27 Challenge
MOMocrat PunditMom put out a challenge awhile back, and now the MOMocrats are throwing it down to the rest of us.
Here it is, in a nutshell:
Several months ago, I read Melinda Henneberger’s book, If They Only Listened to Us: What Women Voters Want Men to Hear. As she was promoting her book, Henneberger quoted a statistic in one article that if every woman who voted in the 2006 national elections had contributed just $27 to any presidential candidate or party, we would pour $1.3 billion dollars into the political system.
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I’m asking each of you to think about cutting back on the Starbucks just a little bit and contribute $27 to the candidate or political party of your choice. It doesn’t have to be John McCain or Barack Obama. It doesn’t even have to be a presidential candidate — there are plenty of candidates running for national and local offices who could use a little extra cash to get out their messages. If we pool our money, so much the better. But imagine what our $1.3 billion dollars would do, even as individual contributions, to increase the volume of our political voices. Even John McCain would have to sit up and take notice of the issues we think are important.
If you take the $27 challenge and decide to contribute to Obama, would you also consider doing it via my fundraising page? No obligation here, I’m with PunditMom, in that I’d really just like to see every person who votes scrape together $27 and give it to the campaign of their choice.
Imagine the power of $27, multiplied by every voter in this country. Isn’t that public financing at its finest?
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Some things change; some things stay the same. The constants are good. Howard Dean is staying on as the chair of the DNC.
However, as of yesterday, no contributions from lobbyists or PACs will be accepted by the DNC. Senator Obama announced it on the campaign trail today in Bristol, VA. Chairman Dean’s statement:
“Our presumptive nominee has pledged not to take donations from Washington lobbyists and from today going forward the DNC makes that pledge as well,” Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said in a statement. “The American people’s priorities will set the agenda in an Obama Administration, not the special interests.”
I made a vow that I would make a contribution to the DNC when they did the right thing. To me, “the right thing” was sorting out the Michigan and Florida delegate debacles, and standing up to the political machine of the Clintons through the entire primary season.
Yesterday’s announcements, along with the RBC meeting on Saturday, satisfied both of those requirements. I have made my donation to the DNC today and hope you will, too.
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