Burnt Orange Report

John Courage, Cadidate for TX CD-21, is in the Finals

By Damon McCullar

John Courage, candidate for Congress from the 21st district, has made the final round in Democracy for America's "Grassroots All-Star Competition".

You can vote for John Courage as a Grassroots All-Star by going to the following link (when it is active again for voting Tuesday):

http://www.democracyforamerica.com/housevote

Democracy For America had this to day via email:

Congratulations! You are a finalist in DFA’s Grassroots All-Star competition to take back the House. The final round of voting will start this Tuesday, September 20th at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time and conclude on Saturday, September 24th at 5:00 p.m Eastern Time.

Each voter from the first round of voting will be required to recast their ballot for the final round of voting in order to be counted. This will enable people to re-examine each candidate’s website and positions to select their favorite candidates.

We will feature a blog entry from each candidate on the front page of BlogforAmerica.com during the final round of voting. Please send us a short description (500 words or less) of your campaign and a picture that we can feature online.

We will be using an instant run-off voting system for the final round that enables people to vote for their favorite candidates. The voting will be open to all visitors to: www.democracyforamerica.com. Safeguards will be in place to assure a one person-one vote policy.

Live updates will be posted on BlogforAmerica.com once every hour. The candidate with the most votes at the end of balloting on September 24th will receive a DFA-List endorsement and a national e-mail from DFA’s Chair Jim Dean during the last week of September.

To vote, visit: http://www.democracyforamerica.com/housevote

Democracy for America is committed to winning back the United States House and we are excited about starting our 2006 endorsement process. Over the next few months, we will endorse more congressional campaigns. But this competition will enable us to steer early resources to the campaign that has the most support within the DFA community.

Thank you,

Chris Warshaw
Political Director
Democracy for America