Kerry e-mail

[ProSense]

Dear ,

President Bush will be sneaking into St. Louis tomorrow to raise money for Republican Senator Jim Talent. If it's like most GOP fundraising featuring Bush and Cheney these days, it will be a "cut and run" affair.

Republican candidates ask high dollar supporters (tomorrow's event is at the Ritz-Carlton) to cut big checks before they run from being caught in the public eye with the President or Vice President.

We're going to greet this latest fast and furious Bush fundraising foray with a spirited, out-in-the-open grassroots campaign before midnight June 30th to support three Democrats locked in tight Senate races.

Contribute today: a Democratic Senate starts with these three races

Today, we're raising money for Claire McCaskill, who is running for the Senate in the Missouri race that President Bush will be personally trying to influence tomorrow.

An impressive campaigner who is eager to come to the Senate to fight for Missouri's families, Claire has just the right mixture of common sense and uncommon wisdom to help turn around the failed policies that Bush is hoping to disguise with his high-powered fundraising blitz.

We're also working to help leading House Democrat Sherrod Brown in his race against GOP incumbent Mike DeWine whom Karl Rove praised as "a loyal stalwart." Recently, DeWine scored a trifecta -- avoiding President Bush three times when he appeared in Ohio: skipping a health care event, a speech on Iraq, and even refusing to meet Bush at the airport when he came to Indian Hills to raise $1.1 million for DeWine's reelection campaign.

We can win this critical Ohio race if you give Sherrod Brown the immediate support he needs to press back against the GOP money machine.

Contribute today: a Democratic Senate starts with these three races

The third candidate on our list is a Senator who has stood with me to protect the environment and save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Maria Cantwell.

President Bush and Vice President Cheney have both already traveled to Washington to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Maria's opponent, Mike McGavick, and for the Washington state Republican party. Not that McGavick needs any help: he received $28 million from his former employer, Safeco Insurance Company, this year after just two months of work.

We're acting today to even the odds by lending Maria Cantwell the kind of grassroots support called for by her strong unflinching record on so many crucial issues of the day.

Contribute today: a Democratic Senate starts with these three races

The June 30th mid-year federal election reports, reflecting fundraising success to date, will be especially critical. That's why I am asking you to rush generous donations, if possible, to all three of these candidates who are in deadlocked races. Maria Cantwell and I need strong Democrats like Sherrod Brown and Claire McCaskill to join us in the Senate and replace rubber-stamp Republican incumbents Mike DeWine and Jim Talent.

Let's show people that we mean business when it comes to standing up for the candidates we believe in -- and standing up to the desperate barrage of Bush-Cheney fundraising now under way.

I urge you to act before we reach this critical deadline.

Sincerely,

John Kerry

[globalvillage]

1. If it breaks me,

I'm sending money every time he e-mails. He just makes me proud.

JK was great again today.
"You have a right to be stupid in this country."

Then Bunning gets up. LOL.

[ProSense]

2. Yup!

Just did!

[karynnj]

3. That was a great line

He also made so much sense - that someone doing this publicly could be prosecuted for disturbing the peace. I think the Republicans have used their right to be stupid to often lately.

[ray of light]

4. Anyone here from the kerry blog?

Because if so...do you remember Vana? (Vana the fundraiser queen?)

[beachmom]

5. In a related matter, we need to start calling in the favors on the blogs

I saw many of you engaged on that Webb thread, but I went at it in a "calling in the favors" angle. Kerry endorsed Webb, swaying my vote. Kerry has raised money for Webb and probably will in the future. Kerry has vowed to help Webb if they launch a REAL Swift boat campaign smear against him. So DO NOT mess with Kerry, my dear Webbies, because YOU owe HIM. And that goes for any blog favorites for which Kerry has helped out. Obviously, keep it nice, but we need to gently remind these people that they BETTER not forget what Kerry has done for THEIR candidate.

[globalvillage]

6. Excellent point. n/t.