Good morning all...and a fine morning it is. Bill is taking today off to recuperate from his hard work on the No on 1 in Maine campaign and I know you all join me in telling him AND Michael how much we love them.
They asked me to sub and I didn't hesitate to say yes...little did I know how very good the timing for this was.
See, a good friend of mine is running for Congress here in PA-16 and usually we don't get much national attention, long R history of representation in the heart of the T known as Pennsyltucky but this weekend an extraordinary thing happened.
Our 8 (count em 8- 2 more than he PROMISED when he first ran) term Representative Joe Pitts was not only the original author of the now famous Stupak-Pitts Amendment...he LED the debate in favor of it. Suddenly Pitts was all over the Rec List here on Kos...in dairies like this one by Angry Mouse, or this one by MinistryofTruth, or this one by my candidate friend herself Lois Herr.
Then late last night as I was working on an entirely different version of today's Cheers & Jeers I realized that I was about to overlook a fantastic opportunity and thus it is with much excitement and pride that I announce that today's Cheers and Jeers is now my 4th ever and 1st ever on behalf of a specific candidate
Pootie-a-Thon
Now some of you won't know what this is so I am going to explain it and then the hard work will be done by YOU.
All proceeds raised today are to be donated to the Lois Herr for Congress campaign and I would appreciate it if you could use THIS version of the link so that I can accurately track how much I raise today.
I'll start this party off by announcing that I will donate 5 cents PER pootie pic from now until Midnight EST AND 5 cents PER DIARY REC to the Lois Herr for Congress Campaign (note that's a link to her actual website so you can read more about her).
I ask that YOU join the party in one of 3 way or all of them!
- Make a pledge of your own- a penny a pic, a rec, be creative and make some kinda pledge (yes you can set an up to x amount limit)
- REC this diary so we can snag others into making pledges
- Post Pooties (or woozles or featherbutts- anything NON human and NON republican!)
That's it.
Oh you can and should Cheer (Lois) and Jeer (Pitts) as well...but most importantly...whoever splashes the most Pooties will get a special prize from me (eg)
Now I will start us off with 5 pooties that don't count toward the final tally and then we're off to the races!
We have lots of pooties that could do this here in Lancaster...
and recently Lois discovered that her pootie Vicki is a better mouse hunter than we thought...
together we can send Joe Pitts (link to Lois's Facebook page...note the advertisement for THIS diary on the wall) to his well deserved retirement!
always gotta have ONE that'll make you SQUEEEEE
and of course since he was here and we stayed at Lois' home a few weeks ago ...more squee courtesy the Squee Twins that Stranded Wind has been battling of late...
Pool is open...what are you cheering or jeering about?