Attention (Democratic Party-supporting) Shoppers:
ONE DAY ONLY MATCH OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES
For TODAY ONLY, I am providing a 33% match on all your donations (up to a maximum of $400) on my ActBlue fundraising page. You pick the candidate(s) of your choice from my list and donate what you can. I'll come at 11:45pm (US-EDT) today and bump the number donated today by 33%.
So your $30 donation becomes $40, and so on, right on up to an aggregate of $1,200 contributed by the communal "you" today. We're starting at $730 in the pool as of now, so let's see if we can hit $1,930 by 11:45pm tonight.
[With ActBlue, 100% of your contributions go directly to the candidate(s) campaigns of your choice.]
2:11 PM PT: UPDATE: Nearly $700 raised in 2 hours. Keep it up, folks!
4:28 PM PT: UPDATE: W00t! After just four (1-2-3-4!) hours, we're up to $1,024 (that's $210th) contributed. Keep it coming, folks!
6:50 PM PT: OK gang. We've already achieved the $1200 donation target that maxes out my matching funds -- folks out there have contributed $1,289 in funds for Democrats' campaigns in my little fundraising site today, and I sincerely thank all of you who did.
But how about we go for just a little bit more? With my $400 match, we'll be just a wee bit shy of my overall 1st level financial goal for fundraising of $2500. Do you all have at least another $81 among you to put that goal to rest in the final two hours, too?!?
8:24 PM PT: I'm calling it a bit early given that we reached the objective earlier. The biggest winners were Mazie Hirono, Barack Obama, Elizabeth Warren and Tammy Baldwin. Once again, I sincerely thank everyone for your very generous contributions!
Here are the candidates and the total amounts they each raised today:
President:
$287 - Barack Obama
U.S. House of Representatives:
$7 - Niki Tsongas - MA-03
$20 - Annie Kuster - NH-02
$20 - Carol Shea-Porter - NH-01
$7 - Chris Donovan - CT-05
$7 - Suzan DelBene - WA-01
$7 - Rob Zerban - WI-01 [Paul Ryan's seat]
$7 - Jose Hernandez - CA-10
$7 - Jerry McNerney - CA-09
$10 - Ami Bera - CA-07
$7 - Joe Garcia - FL-26
$40 - Alan Grayson - FL-09
$7 - Patrick Murphy - FL-18
$34 - Manan Trivedi - PA-06
$7 - Tim Walz - MN-01
U.S. Senate:
$238 - Elizabeth Warren - MA
$40 - Chris Murphy - CT
$153 - Tammy Baldwin - WI
$27 - Kristen Gillibrand - NY
$40 - Tim Kaine - VA
$54 - Claire McCaskill - MO [running against Rep. Todd Akin]
$7 - Debbie Stabenow - MI
$401 - Mazie Hirono - HI
$3 - Martin Heinrich - NM
$40 - Sherrod Brown - OH
$7 - Maria Cantwell - WA
$7 - Bill Nelson - FL
$7 - Bob Kerrey - NE
$20 - Jon Tester - MT
$34 - Shelley Berkley - NV
$7 - Amy Klobuchar - MN
$7 - Sheldon Whitehouse - RI
$7 - Bernie Sanders - VT
Organizations:
$7 - Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC)
$40 - Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC)
$40 - Democratic National Committee (DNC)
$7 - Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC)
$7 - Democracy for America (DFA) Strategic Fund