Chris Dodd made protecting FISA from telco immunity/amnesty and other issues critical to returning America to justice and freedom the center of his presidential campaign. Then he effectively flipped it around, using his campaign as a platform to fight for those specific issues at the center of America's crisis, well after it wasn't to get the Democratic nomination.
I watched, impressed. And I watched tonight as the butchery Bush's Republicans tried to work on FISA got rolled back to the baseline, with all the momentum moving towards a proper FISA that actually protects us from both terrorists and our own government.
So I gave a significant amount of money to paying down Chris Dodd's campaign debt, so I could repay my debt to him. I'd like you to join me, so Dodd can do more for us.
Dodd campaigned for FISA integrity, against torture, and for other issues exactly the way America's politics was designed to serve when functioning properly. And he paid the price. He ran up a substantial campaign debt - which also shows me he wasn't busy fundraising, which quitters usually turn into a profit.
I watched the Senate debate tonight in Oke's liveblog diary, which linked to a "thank Dodd" page. That page in turn linked to a page for donating to Dodd's campaign retirement fund. So I donated a significant amount of money. Because, as I then posted in "I Donated to Dodd Tonight":
Every buck he gets for that is another buck he doesn't have to fundraise, so he can do the work that's leading our country back to justice and freedom.
Then other DKossers in that thread hassled me to diary this little odyssey. Some donated after seeing my post, and not a cent threatened to donate again if I diaried it. So here it is.
Give something back to Senator Chris Dodd. Be as cool as not a cent. And help Senator Dodd stay at work defending us with the Constitution, where he belongs.
Oh, and while I've got your attention, we deserve Senator Dodd as the new Senate Majority Leader to replace Harry Reid, who almost sold us out to Bush's dream FISA gutting back in December, before Dodd forced Reid to honor his own oath to defend the Constitution.