October 14, 2005
Get Your ActBlue Together
By Karl-Thomas Musselman
Thanks to Greg, who reminded me this was going on after I read it at MyDD last week, ActBlue (the online democratic fundraising group) is now expanding their efforts to the 50 states from their focus on the Federal races.
They have set up an online poll to select which states should be the next target, and Texas is included. Now, I'm all about not choosing your own state out of pride or something, but in this case, I think there is a good case for Texas. For one, it would take a load off of Greg's shoulders as he tries to incorporate it into our already existing Texas Tuesdays plan.
On top of that, Texas has fairly simply campaign finance laws on the state level, meaning, there are few limits in terms of who can donate and none on how much people can give to any race, easy to implement. On top of that, we have a strong Democratic blogging network and a commitment to the Run Everywhere strategy, meaning more campaigns to use it and more blogs to promote it, and more blog readers to donate through it.
So go vote for Texas as well as other states you think should be targeted first. They are picking the top 4 and Texas is in 5th.
Posted by Karl-Thomas Musselman at October 14, 2005 05:39 PM
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I voted for Texas, PA, OH, and FL, in that order. I live in AZ right now, but the party here has done little to inspire my loyalty on a state or county level.
http://www.demochoice.org/dcresults.php?poll=200650#Round1
Some of us voted apparently. Texas moved from 5 to 3. Behind Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Time's a tickin'. Reality is unless we all concentrate on taking back the legislature, it won't matter who is governor. Even Kinky Friedman may have a hard time with the status quo of Republicans we have leading our state to economic and educational oblivion.
http://www.txdemocrats.org/lbjevent/index.php
It will take money to generate the money to do so. Luci Baines Johnson and her husband Ian Turpin are hosting a fundraiser for the TDP on November 10th. You don't have to be there to be a host as well. Just $250. Or more. Preferably more. And if you don't have the $250, someone you know probably does. Send a message to everyone including the Republicans that the Democrats are going to fight this time and are willing to put the money up to do it. It's all about the money. Sad but true. But better our money than the corporate money. And maybe this time we will see the money spread around to the candidates instead of the consultants? Just a suggestion.
A friend suggested a "matching grant" approach to making contributions. For ever dollar you send a candidate, send another to the party itself. Or better yet a dollar for the candidate, a dollar for the county party, a dollar for the state party.
That's three dollars per Democrat. How many Democrats are there in Texas? It would add up very quickly.
