I was just hanging out in Jim in Chicago's diary Open Letter to Al Gore: If we build it, will you run? and I mentioned that I'd set up an ActBlue "Draft Gore" page some time ago. Fellow Kossack fink suggested we hold a challenge: can we set a goal and hit it in this last week of the 3rd Quarter?
What if we tried to raise $5,000 from 1,000 Kossacks in the next 5 days for Al Gore?
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The inspiration for this Five Dollars for Al ActBlue page came from a PBS special I watched back in December:
In Arizona, the public financing system is specifically set up so that to get on the ballot you have to collect lots of $5 contributions. It proves you have support and are viable, but doesn't break the bank for your contributors.
ActBlue has a page for all candidates to be drafted from - you can raise money for anyone you want, it gets held for that candidate should they enter the race, and if not, it goes to the DNC.
Did you see that?! If the candidate doesn't enter, the money goes to the DNC! It's a no-lose proposition!
Five Dollars for Al
ActBlue says this about draft funds:
You can raise "...draft funds for prospective candidates as well. Money collected in the draft funds will be held until the prospective candidate forms a presidential campaign committee, at which point the funds will be transferred to the campaign. Should the candidate not enter the race by the time of the Democratic National Convention, funds will be sent to the DNC."
This is a fantastic way for us to show Al that he has support for 08. Thousands of small dollar donors would do more to make our case than all the petitions and websites we could ever set up - we vote for him in polls all the time. This is a cheap and easy way to prove you mean it, and to create buzz for a draft movement.
Contribute $5 now! DO NOT contribute more than $5 - the total dollar amount isn't the point - the total number of donors is!
Five Dollars for Al
Let's get 1,000 people to contibute $5 each over the next FIVE days before Q3 ends.
Updated to add: I meant to mention - even if you are solidly for Hillary, Barack, or John...but dream about an Al candidacy idly, it's still worth your while to donate! Five bucks won't break you for dreamin', and the money still goes to the DNC and our nominee once we've chosen and unite as a party. Won't you please give Five Dollars for Al?