Every four years on this date, I come to my friends here and demand. Thus again today.
In past years, readers have ponied up $10.25 gifts for then-Chairman Dean, for candidate Obama and others.
This year, I’m asking you all for the usual $10.25 donations to your favorite candidate, whether at the tippy top of the ballot or someone you like down below. Maybe he or she is running in your state or there’s another seat elsewhere you want to see go beautiful blue.
If you have no faves, try mine:
Foster Campbell is a former Public Service Commissioner and is the only one of twenty-five Senate candidates (realistically, only 19, but who’s counting?) who believes that human activity is the cause of global warming, the only one who defends a woman’s right to an abortion and is a fierce advocate of alternative energy.
The really, really, really good news? He’s looking pretty good. With a GOP circular firing squad helping (heck, David Damn Duke is polling at 5%), Campbell is clocked in second place in the latest Mason-Dixon poll. This means that, with a little luck and a lot of support, he’s going to make the runoff.
(Nov. 8 isn’t actually when you’ll find out the final makeup of the Senate. We’ll let you know Dec. 10. Google “Jungle Primary.”)
At that point, the climb gets tougher, but not impossible. Campbell is well-known and well-liked throughout the state, and he’ll have the undivided attention of the state and national party, plus a still-popular Democratic governor and, who knows, maybe even that Obama fellow.
So there’s my choice. But there’s always Deborah Ross. Or Patrick Murphy. Or any one of our eminently qualified House and Senate candidates this remarkable season. Any one of them would be tickled pink to see your $10.25 come through the door today.
Come on. Gimme. Or, more accurately, give them. And tell ‘em Louie sent you.
(Personal note: The LA Sec. of State has given me a great present, opening up early voting so I get to cast my ballot for both Foster Campbell and Hillary Clinton today! If you are an Orleans resident unsure of all your choices, do check out Antigravity Magazine’s thoughtful NEW ORLEANS HARM REDUCTION NETWORK PRESENTS: ANTI-OPPRESSION/ ANTI-BS VOTING GUIDE FOR NEW ORLEANS ELECTIONS NOVEMBER 8, 2016.)