Here are the latest updates from the get-out-the-vote South Dakota Rez Tour so many of you have contributed to. I do believe we need to PAY THAT PARKING TICKET! Our intrepid War Pony minibus is going everywhere on and off the Indian reservations in the state to take advantage of early voting, which ends soon.
The GOTV leaders in South Dakota are working their butts off to take advantage of the funding you all have provided. We blew past Markos's initial goal of $50,000, then $75,000, then $100,000 for the South Dakota NDN Election Efforts PAC. Now we're on our way to the group's dream budget of $200,000. I think we can do it. We are currently at $131,000, and with your sharing and tweeting this campaign we can get more donors. The total has been built with small donations. So ask your networks to chip in.
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Read below the orange fluffy frybread for more updates from our team about this crucial project..
2:21 PM PT: wow.... Look what I found at Wiyaka Eagleman's facebook timeline:
The guy who walked 38 miles plus to turn in completed voter registration forms.
Chase Iron Eyes noted that the South Dakota Secretary of State is not publishing the Rez voting locations!
So Chase proceeding to list each location in a separate post, like this:
And yesterday in Markos's diary: South Dakota ground game fleshes out as GOP rushes in reinforcements
There was this great comment:
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Previous diaries that include more background on this project as well as past suppression of the Indian vote are linked below:
• Here's how we're going to help win South Dakota by kos.
• When Natives vote Democrats win. You can help 9 reservations in South Dakota GOTV to save the Senate by navajo
• Going in big for South Dakota GOTV by kos
• Control of the Senate runs through South Dakota reservations, and you're helping GOTV by Meteor Blades
• What an awesome bunch of GOTV activists in South Dakota. Aren't you excited to support them? by kos
• Republicans grudgingly admit their South Dakota candidate is bombing by kos
• New Weiland ad, and what our South Dakota GOTV donations are buying by kos
• Boosted by your donations, campaign to get out the Indian vote in South Dakota showing good results by Meteor Blades
• South Dakota ground game fleshes out as GOP rushes in reinforcements by kos
Here is the current fundraising status of the
South Dakota NDN Election Efforts.