We plowed right through the first two angel matches last night, and that was amazing!
I started the third angel match for Michigan right before I closed my computer for the night, but I figured that it was good for anyone who donated overnight to know that they would be matched.
So we are now on Angel match #3 for $1,000! If you donated to angel match #3 last night or today, let me know in the comments if you want your donation to be matched.
So Angel match #3 For $1,000 has commenced!
As soon as we reach $15,000, they can start hiring for the fellowships.
Not that it’s a competition, but this might have been a shutout if it weren’t for another angel who stepped up with an email just as Angel match #3 began. Anonymous again, but he said I could describe him as an old, bald, fat white guy. Well, I guess i could, but no one on Balloon Juice would believe that!
So we have a $500 angel match in waiting, as soon as we make it to $1,000 for Angel donor #3.
Same rules as last night: she will match up to $25 for each person who donates up to $25 or more and tells us about it in the comments. Until the matches in the comments reach the magic $500 amount.
Promote the Vote 2022 – MICHIGAN!
JeanneT
I made my big donation before all the angels showed up, but I’m putting in another $25 to keep the angels happy!
WaterGirl
@JeanneT: You can’t go wrong staying on the right side of the angels! :-)
thank you!
WaterGirl
I already have MazeDancer and Nancy down for their donations in last night’s thread.
stinger
Chipped in $25. Maybe some day we’ll get around to trying to flip my state! We’ve got some really great candidates for gov and US Sen and House, but I suppose we’re too red and certainly not beloved here on BJ.
lowtechcyclist
I gave yesterday, but what the hell, I’m good for another $50. Only half of that will be matched, of course, but that’s fine. I’m sure enough jackals will chip in to get the whole $1000 matched.
WaterGirl
@stinger: I forget what state you are in. Is it TX or FL? I expect we will be doing something for Texas. And we may have something interesting next for Florida.
WaterGirl
@lowtechcyclist: Much appreciated!
Hungry Joe
In for $25. Haven’t commented much recently, but my money’s still good.
WaterGirl
@Hungry Joe: Nice to see your name here again. Where have you been?
Also, thank you!
Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)
I just added another $25.
Sure Lurkalot
Good article by Will Bunch on the loss of Eric Boehlert
As Join the Fight kicks off its social media initiative, Bunch’s clarion call for other voices to pick up where Mr. Boehlert went in his laser focus on our failed media is timely.
Hungry Joe
@WaterGirl: Been lurking because I simply haven’t had anything useful/meaningful/entertaining to say. Not that that has ever stopped me (or even slowed me down) before …
kalakal
Am in for $25
WaterGirl
@Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!): thanks so much!
skerry
I just threw in $25. Thanks to all the angels.
Orange is the New Red
Just put in $25.
WaterGirl
@Hungry Joe: i don’t know if this is true for you, but I think a lot of us are tired after the last 6 years, and it can be easier to let someone else say what you otherwise might have said.
WaterGirl
@kalakal: @skerry: thank you both!
@Orange is the New Red: Is that a new nym? And thank you.
WaterGirl
@Sure Lurkalot: It looks like you have to subscribe to Will Bunch in order to see the article.
WhatsMyNym
Just donated $25.
emrys
In for $25
Sure Lurkalot
@WaterGirl: Hmm, I don’t hit a paywall and I don’t have a subscription. Sorry!
WaterGirl
@Sure Lurkalot: I tried again just now and it let me in for a second, then came up with a different message blocking the screen this time. It apparently doesn’t like my ad blocker.
I was able to click to READER view, and that worked. So it looks like I can read the article.
WaterGirl
@WhatsMyNym: @emrys:
Thank you both. Donation by donation, we are getting there.
It will take the whole $25,000 to be able to hire the 5 people for the fellowships, but they will start the process once we hit $15,000 and I’m excited to think that we might be able to get there in the next few days!
grandmaBear
Added $51, because that 99 at the end was annoying.
Aussie sheila
I would be happy to donate because if small ‘d’ democratic rule is further undermined in the US it will bode badly for the rest of us, particularly in Oz where our political elites take their cues fro the US both literally and figuratively if you get my drift.
However I am not sure about the legalities of foreigners donating to such a campaign. Could someone who actually knows your electoral law let me know? I would hate to stuff up such a worthy project.
Cheers
WaterGirl
@grandmaBear: A grandmaBear after my own heart.
WaterGirl
$350 more and we will be halfway to our goal!
H.E.Wolf
At times like these, Balloon Juice jackals increase my faith in human nature. And I think my heart grew 3 sizes with the arrival of the 3 angels for MI! :)
Almost Retired
@Aussie sheila:
It looks like you can, at least according to this ruling from the Federal Election Commission. Non-nationals are prohibited from contributing to candidates in elections, but the FEC held ballot initiatives are not “candidates.”
https://www.axios.com/fec-foreign-money-referendum-dcc92322-05ad-4093-8bb8-35446ef6c964.html
ETA: But evidently states can prohibit foreign donations to state ballot measures. I’ll ask our contact at next week’s Promote the Vote zoom.
VFX Lurker
I’m a former Michigander living in California. I just donated $100. Hope it helps.
My thanks to this blog for helping out Michigan. ❤
WaterGirl
@VFX Lurker: Thank you!
We want you Michigan peeps to be able to preserve your right to vote!
Dmkingto
Long time lurker, I think I’ve commented once or twice over the years. I just donated $50 to the cause.
By the way, according to the ActBlue rules on the donation page, you have to be a US citizen or green card holder
WaterGirl
@Dmkingto: Welcome to commenting!
And thank you for the donation. :-)
Is that the Act Blue page for all of act blue, or for this particular group?
Dmkingto
@WaterGirl: it was the page I landed on (from the thermometer) to make the donation.
WaterGirl
@Dmkingto: Well who looks at that? :-)
Not me apparently. Thanks for reading the fine print so we don’t have to!
WaterGirl
@Aussie sheila: @Almost Retired:
Definitive answer supplied by our new formerly lurking commenter. :-)
Big thanks to @Dmkingto.
I guess we’ll have to pay more if we want to get the answer we want.
WaterGirl
I’m about to close the computer for the night, but we still have about half of the $1,000 match left. So any donations tonight will be matched, and I will catch up in the comments in the morning.
We raised about $6,500 in a single day. That’s amazing
Oh, and I forgot to say that we are just a tiny bit away from being halfway to our goal!
You guys rock. Angels and all the rest of you. :-)
Steeplejack
@Sure Lurkalot:
Very good piece.
Aussie sheila
@Almost Retired:
Thank you.
WaterGirl
@Aussie sheila: Sorry to say that you won’t be able to donate. :-(
See details at #33.
Ethan's Mom
I’m in for $25 as well
Aussie sheila
@WaterGirl:
Bummer. I really want to throw some cash at local grassroots efforts. I am politically active in my place, and nothing beats long term local investment. I shudder at what is happening across the democratic polities I am reasonably familiar with, and I think we haven’t seen the worst of it yet. I can’t believe I am seeing fascism rising in my own lifetime. My parents both fought them, and would be shocked at the backsliding and sheer historical illiteracy of it all.
WaterGirl
@Ethan’s Mom: Thank you!
Welcome to commenting! Your first comment has to be manually approved, but after they everyone can see your comments right away.
EXCEPT: if you have an apostrophe in your nym. WordPress does not like that, and with an apostrophe in your nym EVERY comment goes into moderation and has to be manually approved.
Often people with apostrophes either change their nym to leave it out – as in Ethans Mom, or sometimes they use an * in place of the apostrophe, as in Ethan*s Mom. Or maybe change it altogether.
Just wanted to let you know.
WaterGirl
We are halfway through Angel match #3, so she is now matching up to $50 donations!
Wolvesvalley
@WaterGirl:
Can’t resist that! Just put in $100.
We are also now past the halfway mark to our goal!
WaterGirl
@Wolvesvalley: Just what she hoped would happen!