December 17, 2005
The Courage to Be a Progressive Patriot
By Andrea Meyer
I am pleased to announce that John Courage, running against Lamar Smith in CD 21, has been elected as the winner of the Progressive Patriots Fund. Here is an excerpt of the e-mail I received with the announcement in the extended entry, as I am having issues including part of the e-mail.
Thanks to all who voted, and many felicitations to Mr. Courage!
I am excited to announce that you have chosen John Courage to be our first Progressive Patriot. John is a terrific candidate running in the Texas 21st. He's running to protect social security from privatization, to bring affordable health care to all Americans, and to make our country a leader in alternative energy. He's a veteran who wants to bring our troops home safely, and a teacher who will work to improve public education. I'm proud to call John Courage a Progressive Patriot, and based on your recommendation we will contribute $5,000 to his campaign for Congress. You can find out more about John at his website.
With so many deserving candidates competing in this online voting event, it is difficult to support only the candidates receiving the most votes, so we have also decided to make smaller contributions to each of the other ten candidates. I hope that you will also consider financially supporting these great candidates in the future.
Because of the overwhelming response to this event, we hope to do similar events several times over the coming year. There are many other strong democratic candidates running in 2006 who deserve our support. I am committed to doing everything I can to help elect more democrats across the country, but I need your financial help if we are to be effective. Please consider making a contribution today, so that we may continue to help to support these candidates through the Progressive Patriots Fund."
http://www.progressivepatriotsfund.com/morepatriots
Posted by Andrea Meyer at December 17, 2005 01:41 AM
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Courage to be?
Courage is!
It sounds like John Courage is a helluva guy. I agree that we should bring the troops home safely. Hopefully tomorrow night's presidential address will include plans to make this hope a reality.
Thanks for the comment and welcome to BOR, Naji!! :)
Andrea:
Your welcome. Anything to support my girlfriend!!! Good article :) Miss ya babe....
Naji
I've met John and spoken with him about his stance on the issues. I hope he wins; he would be a real progressive populist that will stand up for our rights (unlike the Delay-clone, Lamar Smith).
GO COURAGE, GO!!!
Thanks to everyone who voted! We brought this very important endorsement to Texas. BOR was a big help getting this endorsement.
We're going to be working hard to win this district and it's very likely we will win. This district has changed substantially since the redistricting. We only have to compete in 5 counties now. Travis, Hayes, Comal, Blanco and Bexar. And half the vote will come from Travis County. CD21 does include the University of Texas, so we'll need your help.
Courage to win!
http://www.courageforcongress.org
Sonia
Hey Andrea, I like your optimism regarding John Courage and I don't want to tell BOR how to spend its money, but does he have even a remote chance of winning?
Sal,
John has an amazing chance of winning. The last time he ran, there were 14 mostly rural counties inside of the district. This time around, there are five counties, and Travis County accounts for approximately 48-50% of the vote in itself.
The candidate who was running for the seat in 2004 was Rhett Smith, who is now running for the Republican nomination for governor. So in most part, the votes he got were because he had a "D" next to his name.
We are going to run a strong campaign. We had our first set of volunteer meetings this weekend and had nearly 40 people turn out, this early!
Thank you to everyone for supporting John.
Nick
