Make Me a Mapchanger

by John Courage for TX 21, Fri Jun 23, 2006 at 08:22:03 AM EDT

Your votes and hard work helped me become Democracy for America's first Grassroots All-Star, as well as Russ Feingold's first Progressive Patriot, and now I need your support one more time. 


You can help me advance to the next phase of Mark Warner's Forward Together PAC Mapchangers competition.


Our work is not finished.  In this stage of the contest, the top 5 vote-getters in a field of 20 receive $5,000 per campaign, and then go on to compete for the grand prize of a fundraiser with Governor Mark Warner.


Right now, I am on the cusp of earning $5,000. Voting for me as your first-choice candidate will push me over the edge and double the amount of money Texas campaigns take home. By voting"Straight Ticket Texan" with me as your first choice, you can help bring not only $5,000 to Team Courage, but you can also send $25,000 to Texas, which in turn help candidates on the statewide level due to money being spent locally. 

If I am not your first choice, I am asking each and every one of you to make me your second choice. My opponent is running to be the new leader on the House Judiciary chair, he has paid $10,000 to DeLay's legal defense fund and was thanked by being appointed to the House Ethics committee. He is outside the mainstream of America and leadership.


The time for cronyism and corruption is over, and I need your vote and your voice to help put Courage in Congress. 


Please visit Mapchangers today, and vote "Straight Ticket Texan" with John Courage as your first choice. 

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Go Courage!

I hope y'all will really help John our and honor him with your vote. He's is fighting one hell of a campaign here with an awesome team with people from DFA as well as Paul Hackett's campaign and run by local organizers who know the ground best. If we can put Courage just over the edge into that Top 5, I'm pretty sure he'll be the only candidate in the country to be a DFA All-Star, Progressive Patriot, and MapChanger!  The district is within our graps as are some bigger $$ people and this would go a long way to having many great impacts down the road. Plus John is fully committed and supporting all our downballot candidates in the district. (though for disclosure, I'll be working on the Austin coordinated campaign for all the candidates, but John's helping to fund us too and it's a team effort!)

by KTinTX 2006-06-23 12:03PM | 0 recs
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Heck yeah I voted for ya! You're quite the impactful candidate that should win on election day. I'm sure that if you had an audience of 100 Republicans, 50 Independents and 50 Democrats and you did a speech/listening session similar to the one with Feingold, you'd leave the room with 185 supporters. Now, the problem is quite obviously to GET the Republicans to sit down and talk with you.

by KainIIIC 2006-06-23 01:26PM | 0 recs
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No kidding. When John ran 4 years ago (before it was redrawn, yes, this is Texas, we do that mid decade), this district was awful. Back in 2002 it was one of those close to 75-80% Republican seats. Well, in redrawing everything, it lost about 15 counties, all the hardcore Republican ones (my hometown). But I will say that even back then, John didn't do what so many first time Democrats do in Texas and just talk to the base, he went and talked everywhere like at those county fairs.

Now that the district includes half of Austin, the liberal UT campus (yay, the district followed me), and includes some of the few trending Blue "republican" counties in Texas, we can win the seat. We start at a more reasonable 58/42 type of district. And you know what? A special election for a state house seat that is inside John's district was held this spring... supposed to be a 58% Republican district... a Democrat won it with 57%. The ground is changing very quickly with all the growth and the Republicans and Independents here are actually the well educated persudable kind.

Let's do it!

by KTinTX 2006-06-23 02:16PM | 0 recs
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Within 50 votes of cracking the top 5.

If you haven't voted, please do so.

Texas' map is changing. This will help hurry it along, and boot out the likely head of the House Judiciary if the Republican's retain Congress.

Do you want Lamar Smith the keyholder to that door?

Nuh, and UH.

Go. Vote.

by boadicea 2006-06-23 07:40PM | 0 recs

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