Monday, November 02, 2009

Alan Grayson Money Bomb-- Today Is The Day

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In the 2006 cycle the candidate who attracted the most support from Blue America donors was Ned Lamont, with his campaign that served notice on the Democratic Establishment that the grassroots was unwilling to just eat up whatever crap it was served up from Inside the Beltway hacks. Blue America raised over $77,000 for him in our first year in action. The following cycle, saw another inspiring progressive primary challenger, Donna Edwards, attract the most donors and the largest amount (almost $65,000). It may be too early to tell but it looks like 2010 cycle will mark the year of Alan Grayson. It's still only 2009 but Blue America has already raised over $30,000 for him without having even made an official endorsement! We've been collecting contributions for him at No Means No, a page dedicated to members of Congress who voted against Obama's supplemental war budget in June, and at Getting Grayson's Back, a page dedicated to standing up for him when he gets GOP noses out of joint by telling the truth about their health care obstructionism.

Today Blue America is joining a netroots money bomb effort on behalf of Grayson, urging our community to band together and answer the Inside-the-Beltway and Villager mentality that says there's no room for a plainspoken truth-teller like Grayson in Congress. Nevermind, they tell you, that he studied economics at Harvard, then worked as an economist, then studied law at Harvard and then successfully pursued war profiteers and Bush cronies in Iraq-- even before being elected to Congress in a Republican district and becoming the scourge of banksters and assorted evil-doers dragged before the House Financial Services committee. No, to the Villagers, he's all about "outlandish rhetoric;" he's "the left's Michele Bachmann;" he's "pugilistic" and a "wing nut."

How dare he call a K Street whore-- lobbying, even for a vampire outfit like Enron, being a perfectly respectable occupation in Washington-- a K Street whore? "House Democratic leaders publicly frown on his behavior," reports the NY Times. Really? No doubt Steny Hoyer and Rahm Emanuel don't appreciate anyone bringing up anything that will encourage voters to think about what a K Street whore is and how that connects to the ability of politicians like themselves to rise in the stinking, corrupt system.

Alan Grayson works for regular working families, not for corporate-branded political hacks like Hoyer and Boehner. He dares to dream dreams for working families, like his bill to guarantee paid vacations for every American, a notion as outlandish today as the concept of weekends or Social Security were when they were first proposed. Over the weekend Paul Rosenberg at OpenLeft interviewed Grayson about today's money bomb. He said he's "doing it to show that it's possible for progressive to raise money without having to cater to lobbyists and people who want favors. We're trying to invent an entirely new model to finance a campaign. My campaign next year is going to cost $2 million. There's no getting around it. I don't set the media rates around Orlando, somebody else does that. And the result of that is that we have to show that money can be raised for progressive causes in the old fashioned way, which is $20 here, $50 there, $100 here, rather than asking big shots for favors. I want a campaign that's a campaign by the people and for the people. And this money bomb will show whether or not it's possible. I think we've already shown a lot of success, I mean we've already raised a quarter million dollars, and the money bomb is still three days away. But what we need to do is to show that we can do it the same way the right does it.  The right has had multi-million dollar money bombs for Ron Paul, and we need to show that we can do it that way ourselves. Otherwise people on the left in Congress will feel that they have to keep making deals with lobbyists just for the sake of financing their own campaigns."

Today we're not asking you to pledge, we're asking you to go to the Alan Grayson Money Bomb page, CongressmanWithGuts.com and donate to the best representative ordinary Americans have in the entire U.S. Congress. Hopefully supporting Alan Grayson will lead to a proliferation of other courageous members of Congress. He'll be live blogging with John Amato this morning at 9AM, PT (noon in Orlando). Ask him why he said that "we're witnessing the demise of the Republican Party."

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