I love General Wesley Clark and I am very happy to see him helping VoteVets in their mission to defeat Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R. KY) this year:
In 2012, campaigns and political organizations spent almost $7 billion dollars to get their message out -- almost as much as the United States spent that year on the post-war effort in Iraq.
And as we steel ourselves for another onslaught of campaigns ads competing for our attention on our televisions, computers, and phones, you gotta wonder how anyone can cut through that amount of noise.
The answer: veterans can.
We are the messengers we need in the coming debate about how the current Congress -- led by elected officials like Mitch McConnell -- have let down veterans.
In the coming weeks, VoteVets is going to escalate its current ad campaign highlighting Senator McConnell's repeated efforts to block VA health care improvements.
Your $5 contribution will make sure Kentucky's 300,000 veterans receive the message loud and clear.
https://donate.votevets.org/...
Mitch McConnell says the "denial of care to our veterans is a national disgrace."
But he's blocked a tax credit encouraging employers to hire veterans, blocked funding to improve veterans health care, blocked giving veterans in-state tuition across the country, and blocked job training programs for veterans.
That's the disgrace.
Your $5 contribution will make sure Kentucky's veterans get that message this fall.
http://action.votevets.org/...
Thanks for standing with VoteVets in this effort. It's important.
All the best,
General (Ret.) Wesley Clark
VoteVets.org
Click here to donate to VoteVets so they can run their ad campaign against McConnell:
https://donate.votevets.org/...
P.S. Governor Steve Beshear (D. KY) is continuing to help Alison Lundergan Grimes (D. KY) get ready to take on McConnell:
In just five days, we're going to hit one of the biggest moments of 2014 when we reach the second FEC fundraising deadline of the year.
On that day, all eyes will be on Kentucky and the whole country will be thinking the same thing:
"Can Alison's grassroots network really keep standing toe-to-toe with Mitch McConnell and the millionaires and billionaires bankrolling his campaign?"
Look – I'm going to be blunt: they're watching us.
Let's show them how unified we really are by standing with Alison in this critical moment. We've got to make sure she has the resources she needs to fight back and hold McConnell accountable every single day in the final months ahead.
Contribute $5 or more now and help Alison reach her goal of 1,000 new online donors before the end of June.
https://secure.actblue.com/...
Thanks to the support folks like you have shown already, Alison keeps beating the odds and is in a position that no one has ever been in before:
With a little over four months to go, 19 recent polls show her ahead of or tied with McConnell, including a recent poll from GOP pollster Magellan Strategies showing her up by three.
All of these polls are trending in Alison's direction despite the truckload of money Mitch and his Super PAC cronies are dumping into false attack ads to smear Alison.
That's why this deadline matters.
With outside groups spending big in an effort to buy this election for McConnell, we have to make sure Alison keeps hitting her grassroots goals so she can continue to fight back and keep this race close.
Donate now and stand with Alison before next Monday's FEC deadline. Just $5 can make a big difference.
https://secure.actblue.com/...
With your help, we can finally elect a U.S. Senator who stands for working families.
Thanks for standing with Alison,
Governor Steve Beshear
Click here to contribute to Grimes' campaign:
https://secure.actblue.com/...