End of the Quarter Fundraising Spiel

Time to cough up some money for your favorite candidates. Sadly, we live in a political system where money is of paramount importance, more than ideas or issues. It's up to those of us who want to take our country back to support candidates we like with our pocketbooks. And the end of the quarter is an important benchmark.

I used the Netroots page helpfully located at the top of this site to kick in a little to Jon Tester (MT-Sen), James Webb (VA-Sen), and Patrick Murphy (PA-08).

Tester is an organic farmer from Big Sandy, Montana, by all acounts a completely unpretentious and honest progressive, who slaughtered the DLC-backed candidate in the Senate primary and is now taking dead aim at Abramoff crony Conrad Burns. Webb is Reagan's former Navy Secretary, a Fighting Dem who believes the Iraq War was a terrible mistake Despite his conservative bona fides, he's jumped on the protest over Congressional pay raises without first raising the minimum wage. Patrick Murphy is running in my parents' district, an area of the Philly suburbs that went for both Gore and Kerry by about 4%. Murphy is an Iraq War veteran who has a responsible moderate record on the issues, and is just the kind of fresh face we need in Washington.

These are moderates, progressives, conservatives, from the South, the West, the Northeast, all united by their belief in Democratic values and their opposition to the failed policies of the Republican machine. I ask that you check out their campaign websites (Tester, Webb, Murphy) and, if you appreciate them, contribute by tomorrow. (And if you do, tell 'em D-Day sent ya)