I Need Your Help to Make This Work
It’s not the end of the quarter. That’s tomorrow, silly.
Tomorrow marks 98 years since the U.S. acquisition of the Danish West Indies, which we renamed the U.S. Virgin Islands. Just sayin’.
And tomorrow, just like every March 31, just like every June 30, September 30 and December 31, is a cut-off date for a report that our campaign must make to the Federal Election Commission. We have to disclose our support.
Here’s an interesting question – why should that matter to you? Why should you care about that?
Fair question. Let’s discuss it.
In a nutshell, I’m trying to do some things that are very unusual, very special, very important, and I need your help to do them.
I’m trying to build a national progressive grassroots network. As part of that effort, I wrote a petition against “any and every” cut in Social Security and Medicare benefits that drew almost 3,000,000 signatures. We defeated the “chained CPI” proposal. For that to happen, I needed 3,000,000 people to join me.
I’m trying to show that even with the Republicans in charge of both the House and the Senate, there is a path to victory for progressive proposals and programs. As part of that effort, I passed 31 progressive amendments on the Floor of the House during 2013 and 2014, more than any Democrat and any Republican. And during December alone, fifteen progressive Grayson bills were incorporated in three larger bills that passed the House, passed the Senate and were signed into law by the President of the United States. For that to happen, I needed your support.
I’m trying to show that it’s possible to finance a 21st Century congressional campaign without selling your soul to the millionaires and the billionaires and the multinational corporations and the lobbyists. As part of that effort, I was the only Member of the U.S. House of Representatives who financed most of his 2012 campaign with small contributions of less than $200 – and then I did it again last year. For that to happen, I needed your support.
The common factor here is not just me, it’s you. If the special interests held the first mortgage on my rear-end, then none of this would be possible. Thanks to you, I am unbought and unbossed. I fight for the common good. I owe nothing to anyone but the voters.
So that’s why an obscure quarterly deadline at an obscure federal agency might matter to you: because it means that it’s time for you to stand up and be counted, by contributing to our campaign.
And in return, you get a Congressman with temerity. A Congressman with audacity. A Congressman with spine, nerve, backbone and cojones.
A Congressman with Guts.
I need to show the political establishment that there is an alternative to raising $100,000 each from 50 millionaires, or billionaires, or multinational corporations. Instead, we can raise $50 each from 100,000 decent human beings, who want the greatest good for the greatest number. Just plain folks like you.
I need your help to make this work. Are you with me? Yes? Then show it, by clicking here.
Courage,
Rep. Alan Grayson
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