Batten Down The Hatches-- It's The End Of The Quarter

Maybe you already started getting the desperate and pathetic e-mails from multimillionaire congressmen, like Scott Peters, begging for your money to finance his career-- which is all about supporting Wall Street corporate special interests. Or maybe you got one of those ridiculous Steve Israel e-mails telling you that [fill in the blank] is the most important race of the cycle and please give more money. My own personal favorite DCCC e-mails are about how they need money to fight the evil Republicans trying to defund Obamacare which never mention that the money goes straight into the campaign coffers of Blue Dogs Mike McIntyre (NC) and Jim Matheson (UT), both of whom voted with the evil Republicans to defund Obamacare.

Those races are over a year away and, take my word for it, the pace will only increase as we get closer. Giving the DCCC or any of their cardboard candidates anything will just encourage them to ask for more and more and more. And in any case there's a race coming that's a lot sooner-- October 15, in fact. This isn't just another race to elect another run-of-the-mill Democrat. The MA-05 congressional race will determine if Congress gets a new young progressive leader to stand with principled visionaries like Elizabeth Warren, Alan Grayson, Bernie Sanders, Raul Grijalva, Barbara Lee, Keith Ellison and... there must be a few more.

There are 7 Democratic candidates in the race-- but only one is a proven progressive champion: state Rep. Carl Sciortino. Most of them are just garden variety Democrats, though the worst of the lot, Katherine Clark, is the principle sponsor of a Massachusetts state Senate bill to allow warrantless wiretapping of American citizens. She's dangerous and the ACLU is fighting her big tooth and nail. EMILY's List is pouring money into her campaign, even though there's a far less objectionable woman in the race.

Over 5,000 individual donors have contributed to Carl's campaign and Blue America is helping. You can contribute here at this link if you'd like to. He needs the contributions for his field operation and to keep the Tea Party Dad ad on television. (The ad is up top; it's so compelling that it's given him the most momentum of anyone running.) Since the release of the ad 3,600 individuals donated to the campaign-- a total of $178,000 in just over a week! Here's how Carl's campaign put it in a press release yesterday:

Just today, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) released a poll conducted by Public Policy Polling that showed Carl leading in the race at 29% among voters who have seen his ad. This comes on the heels of a Karen Spilka poll that shows Carl is the only candidate gaining ground while all other candidates in this race remain stagnant.

Sciortino’s growing momentum shows that voters in Massachusetts are hungry for a progressive leader that can get things done. As a legislator, Sciortino has been a leader on important progressive issues including; preserving marriage equality, passing legislation extending equal rights to transgender residents, and establishing a buffer zone around reproductive health care facilities.

Below are the three new billboards Blue America has up as of this week-- in addition to the anti-bombing billboard-- all with quotes from Carl's TV spot. If you'd like to help us expand the billboard campaign, you can do that here-- and on this one, there is no maximum contribution (nor a minimum, of course). If everyone just gave one dollar to Carl's campaign every time they get an e-mail from the DCCC or one of the DCCC shill candidates, we'd see Carl in Congress this year.