February 17, 2012
Dear MoveOn member,
In just two days, nearly 17,000 people have signed the "We the People" version of our petition calling on President Obama to commit to vetoing the Bush tax cuts for the 1%.
We only need 8,000 more signatures to guarantee a response from the White House on this issue. Can you ask your friends, family, and co-workers to sign?
February 16, 2012
Charles,
Good news—Ilya Sheyman’s race for Congress in Illinois’ 10th District is now in the national spotlight! Politico just called it the "first true bellwether of the cycle" for progressives.1
That means the stakes in this race have just gotten higher. If we all contribute and help Ilya win, we can elect a progressive champ over a corporate Democrat—and it’ll send a message to other candidates that if they run as fighting progressives, we’ll have their backs. Ilya is narrowly ahead in the polls, and with only 32 days until Election Day, we’ve got to make sure we have the resources to identify, persuade, and mobilize voters to support him.
We need to decide tomorrow night how many voters we can contact, and with $50,000 we can join forces with other groups and help put Ilya over the top. Please support MoveOn’s effort today:
Chip in $5 to help send this new progressive leader to Congress.
You can check out the note below about Ilya that I sent last week. Thanks—Adam
Dear MoveOn member,
When Ilya Sheyman, MoveOn’s former mobilization director, told me a year ago that he was running for Congress, I told him he was crazy.
Don’t get me wrong—I thought he’d be an amazing member of Congress. A real game changer. And I knew he was running in a Democratic district in Illinois to unseat one of the most vulnerable tea party Republicans in the country.
I knew he was a brilliant organizer—we fought side by side for health care reform and against the corporate capture of our democracy. But still, candidates this good usually don’t win in our system.
Well, I’m eating my words. With just five weeks left until the primary, he’s winning! The latest poll has him beating his wealthy Democratic primary opponent, who has a long history of donating to Republicans. Thanks to small donor contributions pouring in from around the country, Ilya is even raising more money than his opponents.
But the primary is going to be incredibly close. That’s why we’re going to contact undecided Democrats and send MoveOn members out to talk to voters;plus, we’ll bring the same approaches to other key races around the country. But we need to know whether we’ll have the resources to pull it off. Please support MoveOn’s effort today:
Chip in $5 to MoveOn’s big plan to elect Ilya Sheyman and other true progressives.
Primaries—where real progressives like Ilya face off against establishment Democrats—start in a few weeks. And once they’re over, our best opportunity to move Congress and the Democratic Party toward our progressive ideals will be over, too.
There’s no doubt that Ilya’s voice in Congress would be a game changer. I should know … I used to work with him. He’s a tenacious progressive and a bold strategist.
So when people like Ilya decide to run, we have to have their backs. We’re making our final decisions on where to spend money in the race within the next few days. Can you chip in $5 to MoveOn today so we can launch our efforts immediately?
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