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Stacey Abrams & Georgia: What Can My Contribution Do So Close to Election Day?

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Several people have asked something like this:  “They have already raised an obscene amount of money for the Georgia runoffs, why do they need more money?  At some point, more money can’t make a difference.”

Stacey Abrams answers that question:

Mitch McConnell and his friends are pouring millions of dollars into Georgia and flooding our airwaves with ads.

We can’t stop his special interest money from pouring in during these last days, but you, right now, can help us reach more voters and turn them out on Tuesday. We saw the power grassroots donors had in Georgia when we voted for Joe Biden not too long ago. Now, Jon and Raphael are running strong campaigns but they need your grassroots support to cross the finish line.

You may ask yourself: What can my contribution do so close to Election Day?

Well, I can tell you that whether you give or not today will have a huge impact on these races. Turnout is the deciding factor in runoff elections, and Jon and Raphael are running huge get out the vote programs that need all the funding you can provide.

Stacey Abrams specifically asks for an equal split of donations to Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, but I am including all the thermometers so you can decide for yourselves.

Let’s do this.  Let’s get two great senators and make Mitch McConnell Irrelevant!

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Jon Ossoff, Georgia Senate Runoff! YES, this includes the 2018 race.

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Raphael Warnock, Georgia Senate Runoff!

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America Votes – Georgia

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If you donate to America Votes – Georgia, they are making sure they get distributed directly as needed to groups that are having the biggest impact on the ground.

This fight really is for everything.

 

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  2. 2.

    Mary G

    Threw in for all, even though I just got done posting in the last thread that I was done. Already spent the $600 and it just got here.

  5. 5.

    Patricia Kayden

    Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue have declined to join CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News to comment on the Raffensperger call. Georgia, pay very close attention to the silence from your Senators. They witnessed an act of Treason against your state, and turned the other way. #TrumpTapes— Uncovering The Truth (@thebr0keb0i) January 3, 2021

  8. 8.

    Elizabelle

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:   And electjon.com

    Repeated that twice.  Shades of Jerry Brown, a lot of years ago.

    But yes, the “campaigning with a Klansman” is the takeaway from that interview.

  9. 9.

    geg6

    Done.  I thought I has donated for the last time on NYE, but that fucking tape has my head exploding.  So one last fuck you to Mango Mussolini and the GOP.

  10. 10.

    Elizabelle

    @Patricia Kayden:   Right.

    Loeffler and Perdue are going to get asked about the Trump call with Raffensperger every single hour they appear in public before free press, from here until the polls close.

  11. 11.

    The Dangerman

    Quick, someone convince Trump that Perdue and Loeffler were the ones responsible for releasing the tape. Would Make Trumps rally tomorrow all kinda lit up.

  12. 12.

    WaterGirl

    @germy: From your article:

    Throughout the South Carolina contest, Harrison outraised Graham, who at one point was pleading for contributions on Fox News shows, and polls showed a close race. In the end, Graham won by more than 10 percentage points.

    Harrison’s internal campaign data showed him going into the general election “in the lead big time,” Clyburn said, but “on Election Day, we got outvoted. Beyond television, you’ve got to do the canvassing. We did not do the canvassing.”

    Clyburn said his political organization is in Georgia, working with Rep. Sanford D. Bishop Jr. (D-Ga.) to shore up the Democrats’ ground game. He also said that Harrison is sharing what he learned from the experience with Ossoff and Warnock’s campaigns.

    “I think we’ve got an even chance of winning both of those seats. And if I were to go on my own emotions, I do think that Warnock is in very, very good position to win,” Clyburn said.

  22. 22.

    Mary G

    Even Paul Ryan has abandoned ship:

    Unexpected statement from Paul Ryan: "It is difficult to conceive of a more anti-democratic and anti-conservative act than a federal intervention to overturn the results of state-certified elections and disenfranchise millions of Americans." pic.twitter.com/RRvoYiMv9n— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) January 3, 2021

    Calls Biden’s victory entirely legitimate. Is that a pig I see in the sky?

  24. 24.

    Ruckus

    @Mary G:

    I wonder if the PTB (mitch) thought if we pay them $2000, they will just spend it all on the GA election. If we give them $600 they will spend it on food and utilities.

    I’m like you, I’m pretty well spent out, but actual living is just a bit more important.

  26. 26.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @Mary G: You just have to feel bad for the poor Republican Senators whose terms are up in 2022, and who have to decide whether supporting Trump or democracy will anger more voters. And either way there will be angry mobs with pitchforks.

    Yet strangely… I’m not feeling any sympathy.

  27. 27.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    Just gave $50 to America Votes – Georgia. I like the sound of “directly as needed to groups that are having the biggest impact on the ground.”

  31. 31.

    WaterGirl

    Holy shit, i just listened to the compilation recording on the previous thread.  Holy fuck-ski.  Trump is one brazen son-of-a-bitch.

  33. 33.

    Mary G

    @Elizabelle: Thank Dog WaPo has a transcript. I can’t listen to him for an hour,

    The Washington Post obtained a copy of a recording of the call. This transcript has been edited to remove the name of an individual about whom Trump makes unsubstantiated claims.

  34. 34.

    Ruckus

    @WaterGirl:

    Two things.

    I agree with this.

    Second, I’ve been noticing this morning that the number of comments for a post have gone up on the main page but when I open the post, no new comments. I close the post – go back to the main page and reopen the post and it now agrees with the number of new comments, but there are no new comments until I then refresh the the page, when they now appear.  I’ve never seen this before.

  36. 36.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @WaterGirl:

    Yup. He pretty much directly threatened the GA SOS; that he was taking a “big risk” if he refused to invalidate GA’s election results. I’m not even sure what Trump thinks he’s going to gain even if Raffensperger did so. The EC has already voted. The House will not go along on the 6th. I know he’s a desperate, delusional, narcissistic idiot, but one would think even Trump at this point would hang it up

  37. 37.

    Brachiator

    Nancy Pelosi is Speaker again.  She got 216 votes. Kevin McCarthy got 209.

    Democracy out in the open

  40. 40.

    Ruckus

    @WaterGirl:

    He didn’t get to be the shithead he is without trying/working for it.

    Never forget, he has put himself in a massive corner, with no way out and while he’s a master at part A – putting one’s self in a corner, he’s always been able to BS/obfuscate his way out, the corners he has available to him now are much, much more difficult to BS his way out of. IOW his BS days are behind him, the last corner he crawled into was the presidency, him all the while believing that he’s smarter and stronger, while in fact he’s far dumber and far weaker. So every corner he’s run into since, because that’s all he knows, is running into corners, is far harder to get out of and his BS/lies/attorneys really, really can’t help him. His tools no longer are sharp enough, strong enough, available enough, so he has to resort to the tools he thinks he has. And they aren’t getting the job done and never will. Still a cornered rat will bite at every ankle that it can….

  42. 42.

    Gravenstone

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: You just have to feel bad for the poor Republican Senators whose terms are up in 2022, and who have to decide whether supporting Trump or democracy will anger more voters.

    One of that number is head cheerleader and seditious bastard Johnson. For far too many, that decision wasn’t difficult at all.

  43. 43.

    Gravenstone

    @Mary G: The people who hold his leash likely gave it a firm yank and told him to get his thumb out of his ass and say something to head off this stupidity. At least a few of them likely see themselves in the potential sights of this not remotely discriminating mob their Frankenstein’s monster has whipped up.

  44. 44.

    Jay

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    Dumph, can’t give up on The Big Lie, because that would make him a loser.

    Other ReThugs are amplifying The Big Lie in the hope that the “Stabbed in the Back” myth will come in useful down the road,

    Other ReThugs are embracing The Big Lie in hopes of furthering voter suppression.

  45. 45.

    Mary G

    Ashton Carter, Dick Cheney, William Cohen, Mark Esper, Robert Gates, Chuck Hagel, James Mattis, Leon Panetta, William Perry and Donald Rumsfeld for the ⁦@washingtonpost⁩ —>“The time for questioning the results has passed.” https://t.co/wanlCsP3Hr— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) January 3, 2021

    All 10 living former Defense secretaries signed it.

  47. 47.

    patrick II

    Do they have state referendums in Georgia?  Because if they do, and while Stacey has all of these voters registered and before the Republican legislature can change it, the should have a voter’s rights amendment to their constitution to avoid the inevitable Republican voter suppression to come.

  49. 49.

    Barbara

    I donated to Warnock last week, and America Votes today.  I have donated to the other two previously — lots of moolah to FairFight.

  51. 51.

    Ruckus

    I have a question, does anyone know who the Stop Republicans Pac really is?

    The emails I get from them are ridiculous BS. Sounds more like pay us and we won’t send you emails asking for more money for our pac. Nothing about who’s running it, what their goals are other than getting people to send money. Which I haven’t done. The most I could find was that they’ve spend over half of what they collected on trying to collect more. Now every organization is going to have to spend money to collect it, but I could find nothing about how else they have supported electing democrats.

  54. 54.

    Mo Salad

    Sent the two campaigns $100 each. Fair Fight got $100 last month.

    These are the first political cash contributions I have made EVER.

    Working my way out of a >20 year politically mixed marriage and am now free to do what I want with my money.

    Will probably set up recurring to Fair Fight and Wisconsin Dems once the divorce is complete, I have my settlement, and get the finances going forward figured out.

    This shit better work.

  55. 55.

    Ruckus

    @WaterGirl:

    It is.

    Everything about them smells rotten, like the soft, smooshy pile of dog shit that you didn’t see while walking down the street barefooted.

  59. 59.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @WaterGirl: 

    @Baud: Yeah, I knew it would be party line.

    But that’s not much wiggle room, and with COVID, you never know who might not be able to vote.

    Oh for cripes sake, what did you expect?? Dems have a majority of a whopping ten votes. All she needed was to win by one and she won by 7. I’m absolutely certain that Nancy D’Alesandro Pelosi had it completely counted out before the vote was allowed to proceed.

    Some of you people…

  61. 61.

    WaterGirl

    @Uncle Cosmo: “You people?” What the hell?

    All I was saying is that the vote brought home what an uncomfortably small margin we have in the house.

    Unlike you, I wasn’t criticizing anyone.

  62. 62.

    Wolvesvalley

    Dammit, I vowed that I wouldn’t yield to any more pleas for money (having stretched my political contribution budget farther than it has ever gone in past elections), but your notation that America Votes distributes their contributions “directly as needed to groups that are having the biggest impact on the ground” made $100 fly right out of my pocket.

  63. 63.

    oldster

    Tossed a good chunk into Fair Fight. If the schedule is ticking down to GOTV activities, then I figure Stacey will do a good job converting my dough into votes.

  64. 64.

    Mai Naem mobile

    I put some $$ in. I am not expecting the Dems to pick up either so I don’t end up being disappointed. I don’t trust the SOS even with what he’s done with Orange Dbag. These last 4 years have made me more cynical that ever and I wouldn’t be surprised if the SOS is trying to pull something off with the Senate races while distracting with Orange Dbag because they know the Senate is more important with Biden winning.

  65. 65.

    WaterGirl

    Thanks, everybody!  It’s 9 pm.  You guys made over 250 donations tonight, and we raised over $17,000!

    I’ll check again in the morning, maybe the night crew will go crazy.  :-)

  66. 66.

    WaterGirl

    And now it’s morning.  We made over 300 donations, for a total of $22,000 so far.

    Stacey Abrams is trying to raise $1 million by tonight, and we are certainly doing our part!

    Thank you, everyone.

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