The Road To 60: Introducing Rick Noriega For Senate UPDATED

by Todd Beeton, Mon Jun 30, 2008 at 10:18:29 AM EDT

Our 5th out of our first 5 Road To 60 senate candidates is Rick Noriega who is running to oust Bush rubber stamp Sen. John Cornyn of Texas. Noriega, a member of the Texas House and a Lieutenant Colonel in the Texas Army National Guard who spent a year serving in Afghanistan, was drafted to run for the senate against Cornyn by the grassroots and netroots and is running a very strong campaign. Just look at the week Noriega had last week:

  • A new Texas Lyceum poll shows Noriega within 2 points of Cornyn.

  • Noriega won Barbara Boxer's PAC For A Change fundraising contest winning him a fat check for $2500 toward his campaign.

  • The Texas Medical Association announced it will rescind its endorsement of Cornyn in response to his vote to block a bill that would have stopped a cut to funding of doctors who tend to Medicare patients.

  • Noriega posted this eloquent piece over at HuffPo discussing the vast gap between his own service training soldiers for redeployment to the Middle East with Cornyn's lack of service in Washington, DC.

  • In response to this inspired piece of schlock produced to promote "Big" John Cornyn's re-election, the Noriega campaign released a hilariously mocking ad of their own:

  • Oh yeah, and of course, Noriega made MyDD's Road To 60 Act Blue page.

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The bluing of Texas is one of the more dramatic political stories of the past several years -- especially in the wake of Tom DeLay's redistricting and his goal of a permanent Republican majority -- and is one I look forward to celebrating at Netroots Nation later this month in Austin. Not only have we taken DeLay's seat in congress but at a more local level, after years of absolute Republican dominance, Democrats are within striking distance of taking the Texas House of Representatives, which is currently controlled by Republicans by a slight 79-70 margin. Taking back Lyndon Johnson's senate seat would be the culmination of all the progress we've made in the Lone Star State and is why we're proud to have Rick Noriega on our Road to 60 Act Blue page.

A Senate win in Texas would absolutely mean the Republican firewall has been breached, so please help Rick Noriega get us to 60 votes in the senate and send "Big" John Cornyn back to Texas where he belongs by contributing even $5, $10 or $20 over at our Road To 60 Act Blue page by midnight tonight.

Update [2008-6-30 15:23:7 by Todd Beeton]:Just 17 15 more contributors to get us to 60 donations toward 60 seats in the senate by midnight tonight. Help us reach our goal at our Road to 60 page. Thanks!

Tags: John Cornyn, Rick Noriega, texas, TX-Sen (all tags)

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Hey all you MyDDers!

Who here can donate but has not yet donated to the Road to 60 campaign?

$25.00? Spread this out between the 5 candidates and this is only $5.00 per but it goes a long ways!

Want to kick Dole from her Senate seat? Then help support Hagan who is and can be a tough competitor but she needs more MONEY and volunteers!

Check this out about Dole and Hagan and then come back here and do what you can.
http://www.mydd.com/comments/2008/6/27/1 5528/6997/2#2

by kevin22262 2008-06-30 12:47PM | 0 recs
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Cornyn's finance director

sent out the most hysterical (in both senses) email ask this morning.

I'll get right to the point. I'm asking if you'll become an "online" donor to Senator Cornyn's reelection campaign before midnight tonight, June 30, for two important reasons.

First, I need your help to pay for a new online ad campaign.
These bold newspaper ads help people understand the importance of electing a common-sense leader who understands the critical decisions and how they impact each of us personally.

To run the ads in newspapers, we need $25,000 by midnight tonight. So, your $5, $15 or $25 donation right now will make a big difference. This is our first newspaper ad campaign and I hope you can help out.

The other really important reason we're asking for your help now is that today at midnight we close the books on the 2nd Quarter. It's the last real "financial" report the outsiders - like Chuck Schumer, Act Blue, Code Pink and MoveOn.org -- will look at before cementing their national plans.

If you say "yes" now to becoming an "online" donor, you'll help us send an unmistakably clear message we're running a confident, positive campaign and outsiders have no place dumping truckloads of special interest money into Texas.

I love the quotes on "online"-as if there were something otherworldly about money that comes in over the intertoobz...

Us "online" critters really have them flustered-even while they send out trollers"undercover agents" to try to undermine the opponent they claim they're not worried about.

Look forward to seeing you in Texas, and many thanks for your help in our fight to take Texas back to true blue.

by boadicea 2008-06-30 12:50PM | 0 recs
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Folks,

Rick Noriega rocks.  He's the Democrats' best chance of taking back this seat that we're ever going to get.  A Hispanic in a state that is 37% Hispanic.  A war veteran, and not Vietnam but Afghanistan.  He is still an active officer in the reserves. He's solid on the issues, and he's running against the only politician stupider than Bush.  It's a no-brainer.  Give him money.  We need it.  Corn on the cob has got $13 million and counting.

by The Distillery 2008-06-30 11:09PM | 0 recs

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