Check out this video of AMERICABlog's Joe Sudbay at our Maine fundraiser on Saturday night. Joe's a Maine native, and he just got back from the state this past week. He hits on some of the latest details from on the ground.
The part that really gets me is that last year, while we were winning across-the-board in Congress and Obama won the White House, we lost California. It was a bittersweet victory. When someone at the party asks Joe "why does this matter to the other 49 states", Joe rightly replies, "because we've never won one." He's right. We have to break that streak, and we have to do it in Maine.
I remember in California, a lot of celebrities woke up at the very last minute to the notion that we might lose. They even held this big swanky fundraiser at Ron Burkle's mansion less than two weeks, where Melissa Etheridge got up on stage and offered to play any song for a $50,000 donation. There was an awkward silence for quite some time when no one volunteered. It was kind of sad that it had come to that.
That's why giving before October 15th- the day early in-person voting starts and the campaign finance deadline occurs- is so critical. So the campaign, unlike Prop 8, has the resources it needs when it needs them.
Click helow to chip in and take us across the finish line. We're at just $1,866 on the OpenLeft/Better Dems page. Let's take it well past $2K today.
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