July 30, 2005
Texans for Hackett- Update!
By Karl-Thomas Musselman
Wow. I honestly didn't expect our Honorary Texan project to be this successful and was hoping that at least the awareness of Paul Hackett's race would get to more Texans because of the effort.
UPDATE: But in the past two days, as of this writing, 42 49 people have contributed $1,200 $1,925.25 at an average of $28.45 $39.29 per donation. Can we make it to 50 donors or $2000 this weekend? Will one of our Burnt Orange readers step up to the task of putting us over one of these marks (or both!)? We are now the 37th highest list on ActBlue! And check out Annatopia's scoop on what Hackett's opponent's campaign manager does while running a Family Values campaign. The website CollarMe.com comes into play...
NOTE: Totals for SaveTexasReps corrected and moved to Richard Morrison for credit due to a refcode error.
Richard Morrison - $705.20 $1385.20
Burnt Orange Report - $135.02
PinkDome - $80.01
Daily Kos Diary - $60.02
Off the Kuff - $50.00
Other Texas Bloggers - $45.00 $70.00
SaveTexasReps - $25.00
Greg's Opinion - Lots of clickthroughs but no donors yet :(
Thanks to all of those below who have posted about this effort and to all those I haven’t caught yet. Remember, it's not too late to donate. And be sure to check out the DCCC's ad which just went live in the district, it's a good one (if you realize that Gov. Taft there has approval rating less than 20%). And keep up with the Swing State Project for the latest on the ground news.
PinkDome
Greg Wythe
The Red State
Annatopia
Common Sense
Ohio 2nd
Brains and Eggs
Texas Truth Serum
Latinos for Texas
Eye on Williamson County
Save Texas Reps (And in this case Ohio too!)
Southpaw
Stout Dem Blog
National Journal Blogometer
Ohio 2nd
Texas Politics Blog
--Added--
Houtopia
Brown Bag Blog
Plus, look what happens when you search for Honorary Texan right now. And here are the results of our own blogburst for Honorary Texan Paul Hackett.
Posted by Karl-Thomas Musselman at July 30, 2005 04:40 PM
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Ah well, payday's right around the corner. I'll be off the goose egg soon enough.
*grin* It's all good Greg. Without you and your original commments, not even $1 of this would exist.
Greg, the support and enthusiasm around the web has made me more confident about taking on the infamous Corte. The effects of these grassroots efforts pay off in more than just money, and that can never be underestimated.
Bad reference code -- I accidentally used the savetexasreps ref code w/ the graphic in Morrison's email. All but $25 of the SaveTexasReps money should be credited to Richard.
And all of it should be credited to Greg who started the whole thing.
Hey, add the Brown Bag Blog ( http://www.brownbagblog.com ). Greg's opinion was that I should send Hackett some money and so I sent Hackett some money. And then I blogged about it. And then I mentioned it to my dad. And then posted about it on the Democratic Underground. My only complaint is that we can only make Hackett an honorary Texan, rather than, say, swapping him for Dubya and letting them deal with the embarrassment.
