Update IV: You guys are doing great. We're getting closer to our goal of 3,700 donors for O2B candidate Rick Noriega, and having spent a lot of the night telling you why we need to get John Cornyn out of Washington, let's spend a few moments and see why we want to send Rick there in his place:
So what's it going to be? Six more years of "Big John", or six years of big ideas?
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Update III: We've blown past our goal of 3,600 donors and are now at 3,647, not to mention having raised more than $6,000! Fantastic job, everyone! But the night is young, so let's see if we can get O2B candidate Rick Noriega to 3,700 donors. Remember, in the Research 2000/Daily Kos poll, Noriega is only 6 points down statewide, and leads by 7 points in heavily populated Harris County, which includes the city of Houston.
You know who John Cornyn is. He's a man who wants to drill, baby, drill, for his friends in the oil industry, a man who wants to take away a woman's right to choose, a man who opposes health care for children...and Cornyn has ambitions that would extend his brand of crazy across the nation:
Friends and detractors alike describe the San Antonio lawyer as a man of great ambition who might one day run for president or become a nominee for the Supreme Court.
"The sky's the limit," says Cornyn adviser David Beckwith...
Cornyn, who masks political ambition with a genteel, aw-shucks manner, hopes to climb the next step following the election. [...]
"But my first focus is on getting re-elected to the Senate," he says. "I've seen people look beyond their immediate goal to the goal down the road, and sometimes they miss that first goal."
Let's stop John Cornyn's immediate goal by helping O2B candidate Rick Noriega get to Washington. And don't forget our other great O2B candidates, Proposition 8 in California and the South Dakota Campaign For Healthy Families.
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Update II: Awesome job, everyone. We've already raised more than $4,000 for O2B candidate Rick Noriega, and we're nearly at our goal for donors. Do you need another reason to give? Well, how about John Cornyn's patriotic thoughts about your civil liberties?
None of your civil liberties matter much after you’re dead.
That's what we want to get out of Washington...the big business-loving, Constitution-hating John Cornyn. So let's dig deep and give. And while you're at the donation page, drop a few dollars on another candidate, or to help in the fight against California's anti-gay Proposition 8.
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Update: What a great start, guys. In the first hour, we're up to 3,547 donors and have raised more than $2,300! Now, you may be asking yourself, "Why should I donate to Rick Noriega?" Well, besides John Cornyn's love affair with Big Oil, and his anti every progressive program we want, there's this:
So give to O2B candidate Rick Noriega...if not for a bigger majority in the Senate and another voice for progressive values, than give so we can get rid of this big, bad, embarrassing excuse for a Senator.
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Ki-yip-pee-yi!
For tonight's Hell to Pay fundraiser, we're going Deep In The Heart of Texas to help Rick Noriega knock off incumbent John Cornyn and paint the Lone Star state blue!
Cornyn has pulled out all the stops as he's faced a Democratic challenger who took to heart Howard Dean's admonition that Democrats need to fight for seats everywhere. In fact, Dean's praise of Noriega at Netroots Nation is one of the prime pieces of ammunition that Cornyn is using against his opponent.
And just who is John Cornyn? He's one of Big Oil's 10 favorite members of Congress, he's against choice, against education programs, against health care for the poor...in fact, it seems that the only thing Cornyn is for is big business. Oh, and Cornyn is also the senator who, while advocating a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, famously said:
"It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle. But that does not mean it is right. . . . Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife."
So on behalf of box turtles everywhere, come out of your shell and give tonight! Our own Research 2000/Daily Kos poll shows that Noriega is a mere six points behind, so let's help push him over the top in the closing days before the election. Dig deep and donate to this outstanding O2B candidate and help get his voice yee-hawing all the way to Washington. We're shooting for 3,600 donors for Rick Noriega, so jump in and make sure Republicans know there will be Hell to Pay when they go after Democrats for being Democrats.
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