A couple of years ago, members of the local chapter of DFA in Flagstaff formed a 527 called DFA-Flagstaff. They have become an influential activist group in Northern Arizona. The group has had success with numerous events like screenings, festivals, voter registration drives, GOTV and radio ads. This group has now created and produced a series of voter education TV ads. You can view these three ads through YouTube.com:
ad 1,
ad 2 and
ad 3 (or go to the
group's web site to view higher resolution versions of the ad).
Poll and how you can help are below the fold.
The first two ads are currently on the air. This 527 group followed the advice of Kos and are working directly with the local cable company. This allows them to target their audience by geography, channel and time. Your help is needed getting the third ad on the air. They need to raise additional funds to start their next ad buy on Monday with the third ad. Each ad only costs $11. So, if you contribute $22, you are purchasing two ads. The group is entirely volunteer based so all money raised will go directly towards the ad buy. Please consider making a contribution, if not to get the ad on the air, to thank these guys for the hard work they are doing. Plus, if they receive enough contributions, they will create additional ads. Also, please recommend this diary in hopes that it will be kept around. You can contribute through their
web site or directly through
ClickAndPledge.
UPDATE: As requested, here some information about this race. Rick Renzi is the current congressman from Arizona CD-01. He's one of the rubberstampers who votes with Bush over 90% of the time. He is also on the list of
13 most corrupt congressmen. The district is rather large, bigger than most states but Dems have the advantage over Repubs in voter registration. Renzi's challenger is
Ellen Simon. The most recent poll has her surging ahead by
4 points.