We cleared nearly 4K yesterday, not bad!
*** Update ***
John speaking. I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest people might be more charitable if we told them what this is for. It is for the Wisconsin recall, and not gastric bypass surgery for Tunch and Rosie.
Yutsano
I’ll check the state of the finances while I’m at work today and pitch in what I can. Or throw it on the credit card maybe. I’m flexible.
Doug Harlan J
@Yutsano:
Thanks!
Jay
…tremendous C.R.E.A.M., a dollar and a dream.
PS: This money is for WI recall day, right? I have money to give, but honestly, I like phone banking better. I’m not a cheapskate, I just derive satisfaction from knowing I put in work. So, is there any way I can tap into some phone banks for WI?
Poopyman
Hey, the thermometer started rising! Yay!
Not quite Weiner–esque yet, but I guess it’s a start.
Gravie
I pitched in $48. ($6 per candidate.) It felt good.
Frankensteinbeck
No one wants Tunch to get thinner. That was your problem. People LIKE Ham Cat. I don’t like cats *or* dogs, and I like Ham Cat!
300baud
Last time I gave money to one of these ActBlue group things I ended up on a bunch of begging lists. Is there some way I can contribute without that?
mds
[Moves mouse pointer away from “Contribute” button]
Violet
I wish I could give, but money is tight, tight, tight right now. Some unanticipated expenses plus a tree that must be trimmed before hurricane season really gets going. It’s right over the house.
@300baud:
Use a junk email account that you only check every so often.
JordanRules
Just got paid…I’m in!
pragmatism
i miss biggie. :(
hg
Are non-citizens allowed to donate? How about permanent US residents?
Nemesis
Giving ends to friends sounds like a fun Friday night!
beltane
I feel terrible that I can’t contribute anything this time around. We have a big family and I am practically in tears every time I go to the supermarket things have gotten so expensive. For the first time ever I’m genuinely terrified about the future of this country. There is absolutely nothing between us and the abyss any more.
Violet
@beltane:
Food is really expensive. I’m growing a lot of vegetables right now, so not spending much money on those. Some on fruit and some on a few vegetables I can’t get here (like lettuce, it’s too hot here now to grow it), but I’m trying to eat from the garden as much as possible.
Culture of Truth
not gastric bypass surgery for Tunch and Rosie.
well forget it then
SteveinSC
@Poopyman:
I saw the so-called picture of Wieners wiener on my wife’s computer yesterday. I wonder if anyone else has jumped to the conclusion that the picture was a metaphor for the President’s meeting at the WH. “The thing in the briefs was (John) Boner and at the meeting that Wiener didn’t get to attend, Boner was as usual, close to an asshole.”
beltane
@Violet: We do have a very large garden but being in zone 4 nothing will be ready for a few weeks. I feel awful for those people with no jobs and no access to a garden. It’s only a matter of time when food prices become as big an issue here as they are in the Middle East.
Commenting at Balloon Juice since 1937
I thought we were collecting to pay off someone’s girl friend?
Violet
@beltane:
I agree. I hope that empty lots and community gardens, etc. can help with that situation. People can grow food even in buckets on a balcony.
Cliff in NH
@Violet:
@300baud:
you can mod your gmail address with .’s (dots) as gmail doesn’t see ‘em, except for filters.
so set one email filter to 300baud one to 300.baud one to 30.0.baud etc etc … and only give trusted dot patterns to people/sites you actually give a f’about.
Gmail also supports “plus-addressing” of e-mails. Messages can be sent to addresses in the form: [email protected] where extratext can be any string. Plus-addressing allows users to sign up for different services with different aliases and then easily filter all e-mails from those services.
Also too: archive mail you want to save to get it outta your inbox. if everything is filtered correctly only stuff you want and stuff the filters cant fig out stays in the inbox, everything else should be shuffled off to appropriate folders automagicly.
RareSanity
“… tremendous cream, fuck a dollar and dream. Still tote gats strapped with infrared beams… ”
Now throw your hands in the air, and wave em like you just do…
Wait… what where we talking about again?
You are the man L.L. Doug J!
SteveinSC
Oops. Fixed.
Southern Beale
Well I wondered ….
jibeaux
@beltane:
Food prices are going up and the packaging just keeps shrinking. It’s not a lottery check, but FWIW my kids LOVE this lentil taco recipe, and you can’t get much cheaper than dried lentils. Then I use the salsa, Mexican cheese, etc. another night on black beans & brown rice.
Nutella
@hg:
Contributors must be US citizens or permanent residents. Other rules, including details about federal contractors, are here.
beltane
@jibeaux: That’s the type of stuff we eat too. Lots of legumes and complex carbs with a little dairy for protein/calcium absorption. I am grateful to have been brought up in the Italian tradition of making something out of nothing; it comes in handy sometimes.
Thank you for the recipe, my kids love lentils and they love tacos.
Three-nineteen
You do realize that three of those senators are Democrats (Jim Holperin, Robert Wirch, Dave Hansen), right? You’re donating money to those three Democrats to help defend their seats, right?
RIGHT?
WaterGirl
@Three-nineteen: I tried to ask about this yesterday, and I am still confused:
There are 6 elections to recall Republicans.
There may be 3 (possible) elections to recall Democrats.
How does that come to 8 candidates?
It would be helpful if the list would indicate whether they are democrats running for the 6 republican seats or if they are democrats who MIGHT come up for a recall election.
Edit: @beltane:
I had planned to contribute 25.00, but after your post I will be donating an extra 25.00 in your honor.
hg
@Nutella: Thanks!!
Gravenstone
@Three-nineteen: None of the Democratic Senators has been cleared for recall yet. Frankly, they probably won’t be, either. Because the petition gathering process among the pro-Republicans was rather … fraudulent. So no, none of the money is going to that, only the six Republicans. I suspect the Democrats are listed to give ActBlue the flexibility to run pro-incumbent ads in their districts if needed.
liza
@WaterGirl: Okay, I googled around a bit and here’s what I found. Hansen, Wirch, and Holperin are the 3 sitting Democratic senators who may face recall elections.
The challengers to sitting Republican state senators are:
1) Nancy Nusbaum (challenging state senator Rob Cowles)
2) Sandy Pasch (challenging Alberta Darling)
3) Shelly Moore (challenging Sheila Harsdorf)
4) Fred Clark (challenging Luther Olsen)
5) Jessica King (challenging Randy Hopper)
6) Jennifer Shilling is challenging Republican state senator Dan Kapanke. I couldn’t find her anywhere on ActBlue, though.
evap
I threw in a few bucks.
I picked (and ate immediately) the first tomato of the season, yum! It was a grape tomato, but there are lots of green full-sized tomatoes, they should be starting to ripen in a week or so. And there are baby squash and zucchini appearing. I love summer!
kideni
@WaterGirl: There are only 8 because for some reason Jen Shilling was left off the list (she’s running against Dan Kapanke, the guy who hopes public workers are all sleeping through July). I actually wouldn’t be surprised if some, if not all, of the recalls against the Dems go through, since the GAB seems pretty spineless and the Republicans are throwing a tantrum.
Someone upthread asked about phone banking, and yes, I think anyone can do that, even if you’re out of state. I believe if you contact any of the individual campaigns (Shilling, Pasch, Nussbaum, King, Clark, or Moore; Dane101 has the Web sites etc.) they’ll be thrilled to talk to you. The Wisconsin Democratic Party is also trying to round up people to do phone banking.
Thanks to everyone from a Wisconsinite who’s just horrified at everything that’s been going on here for the last six months. I’ve been pitching in to various ActBlue drives as much I can, and I’m trying to determine how much I can add to this one. It’s really great that people outside the state care and are doing what they can.
Three-nineteen
@Gravenstone: Bob Wirch is my senator, so yes I do know that. The Dem senators have “save my seat” ActBlue pages up even though those recalls haven’t been certified. I have been donating to Wirch’s ActBlue page about once a month since this entire thing started. I assume since this is all ActBlue money and ActBlue supports Democrats, the donations to the Dem senators are going to their “save my seat” ActBlue pages. I just wanted to make sure that everyone, including DougJ and John, understand that and we know where the money is going and what people are actually donating to.
ETA: I believe that some of the money is going toward challenging the Democratic senators’ recall petitions, so the donations are being used now.
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
I was wondering!
And now that you’ve made me laugh, I’ll go ahead and finally chip in, as I’ve been meaning to all week, ever since digby first mentioned it.
Off to click and spend!
Doug Harlan J
@Jay:
I will let you know as soon as I find out.
Johannes
I’m in. $11 per Democrat.