In our last post in this series, Balloon Juice peeps made the case for adding Emilia Sykes (OH-13) to our list. She has been added!
About Emilia Sykes, from the comments yesterday:
Our candidate is is Emilia Sykes. She is great with years of government experience in the statehouse. Their candidate is basically Marsha Blackburn with a law degree. Also with a beauty degree. Also on RWNJ talk radio. I think she had her own show.
I am in the new 13th, too! And Emilia’s opponent is totally unqualified.
Yes the most recent filing shows Emilia had $40,000 less than Gilbert but that was in June. I just got an email that said she was $13,000 short of her goal for the quarter. I know they always say that! But I contributed anyway! I am so excited there is a chance to be represented by a Democrat!
Always good to see yet another awesome Black female politician in the early stages of a great career.
Unless you customize the amounts, donations to this thermometer will be split 9 ways.
These 4 have reached over $4,700 each, so they are currently paused on the list.
*Marcy Kaptur (OH-09)
*Sharice Davids (KS-03)
*Gabe Vasquez (NM-02)
*Elaine Luria (VA-02)
Current Recipients
Susan Wild (PA-07)
Josh Riley (NY-19)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
Eric Sorenson (IL-17)
Tony Vargas (NE-02)
Yadira Caraveo (CO-08)
Susie Lee (NV-03)
Mercedes Krause (NV-02)
Emilia Sykes (OH-13)
Winnable House Races Purple Districts
If you want to learn more about the folks on the list, click on the Targeted Political Fundraising Fall 2022 tag up top and check out some of the other posts in this series.
NOTE: Mercedes Krause (NV-02) was added to the list yesterday, and we have a $1,000 match offer for her donations. Mercedes is kind of the exception to our rule. Her race is not a toss-up, but the folks at Four Directions think there is a chance that she may be able to pull it off. Bret said that the Native voters are VERY EXCITED about Mercedes, as she is a great candidate and is Native herself – so even if she doesn’t win, they believe she will help bring out the native vote for Democratic candidates up and down the ballot.
Bret will personally match $1,000 of Balloon Juice donations to Mercedes. I will watch the thermometer on the back end, and as soon as we hit $1,000 for Mercedes, he will add his $1,000 to the thermometer.
Here’s where we’re at right now:
Reminder: our next thermometer will be Election Protection in Key States, which will be a series like this one. Only we’ll be rolling out key races that have a huge impact on election protections, like Secretary of State, Attorney General, Governor.
Reminder: all of the targeted fundraising thermometers for this fall (so far) are in the sidebar, and also at the link below. I have a link to each one in the sidebar now. The link doesn’t show the thermometer itself, but it takes you to it. I thought it might be easier to remember what all the options are if they are listed.
All Targeted Fundraising Thermometers
Totally open thread!
Suzanne
My cousin is running for re-election to the Connecticut State House. She lost her first race, then won last cycle. She would love your support.
Almost Retired
Glad we’re also focusing on Nevada. For a barely purple state, Nevada – rather remarkably – has three Democrats and one Republican in its Congressional delegation. I’d hate to see what happened in Iowa happen to Nevada: Three of four seats in Iowa were held by the Democrats coming into the 2020 election, but the fucking Republicans flipped two of them, including the District with Iowa City.
WaterGirl
@Almost Retired: Ugh. Is there hope of flipping them back?
Joy in FL
I just put in $50 for Mercedes Krause. Thanks to Bret for the matching offer : )
WaterGirl
@Joy in FL: Thank you!
We are at $450 for Mercedes Krause, almost halfway to the match
edit: wow, Mercedes just jumped to $600. :-)
Skepticat
I’ve been donating to most of these candidates through ActBlue, and I really appreciate the guidance toward races where my paltry resources might make a difference. These outlays are a bit difficult with my current financial situation, but this is our lives we’re talking about. Carry on!
bnateAZ
Is it not possible for act blue just to take my money and stop adding me to every candidates frigging email and text spam list? This is kind of pissing me off, getting begging emails every day and texts every day for candidates outside my state (AZ) that I still want to win (my home state of OH for example). Venting a bit but damn the thirstiness of elections.
zhena gogolia
@bnateAZ: I know. I did a bunch of unsubscribes yesterday, but they just keep coming.
zhena gogolia
OT, I guess, but
WaterGirl
@Skepticat: Even small donations add up to big ones!
You aren’t at risk for this storm, are you?
la caterina
I just put in $100 for the match. Split amongst the 3 newest peeps on the list
ETA: oops, only $25 of that is for Krause and eligible for the match,
zhena gogolia
WaterGirl
@bnateAZ: I don’t get a bunch of them because as soon as I get the first one from a candidate, i unsubscribe the second I read it. That stops each one in their tracks.
But I get that it’s annoying.
I’m not sure that it’s ActBlue that does it, though. I imagine candidates share their lists, with everyone trying to boost everyone else.
PHinSD
Just added $25 for Mercedes Krause!
WaterGirl
@la caterina: Good of you to help boost the new peeps on the list!
That puts Mercedes Krause (NV-02) at $700, and Susie Lee (NV-03) at $600! And even our newest, Emilia Sykes (OH-13), is at $275!
evap
l tossed in another $50, I’m a sucker for a BJ thermometer!
I think I’ve said this already, but I really hope someone will post results on these races after election day. I really hope our money makes a difference!
Major Major Major Major
Open thread?
Looks like our plan to buy a house fell through, oh well, farewell purchase agreement deposit. We just can’t honor it under current conditions, unless they lower the price and give us a sweetheart rate. Semper renting!
(…to mangle some latin…)
evap
@bnateAZ: My phone number got onto a GOP list somehow. I’ve gotten texts for Rubio, Ron Johnson, and some GOP woman running in a blue house district in Texas. She’s “tired of watching the Democrats exploit my family and friends in the Hispanic community.” I was tempted to send her a big FU but I texted “stop” instead.
WaterGirl
@evap: I keep trying to reassure everyone who asks…
I am a data girl and I will most definitely post results.
RevRick
I’m in with $500. I never earned a lot as a pastor, but what I have I’m giving to these and eight Senate races, because my children and granddaughter’s futures are at stake.
WaterGirl
@RevRick: You really are a Reverend! I had no idea.
Thank you for your generous donation.
Eunicecycle
Yay for adding Emilia! I just donated another $50 to be split among the candidates
ETA This is sort of Tim Ryan’s old seat. I say sort of, because after gerrymandering he wouldn’t even live in this district anymore.
WaterGirl
Mercedes Krause is at $840, if this keeps up, we’ll get the $1,000 match today.
WaterGirl
I am not one to just raise the thermometer goal because we are getting close to the original, but in this case, we have added more people.
In order to get everyone on the list to at least $3,500 we will need to up the goal by about $15,000.
How do you guys feel about that?
WaterGirl
$15.80 for Mercedes will get us to the $1,000 match.
divF
I just put in $1K – one-stop giving for a bunch of worthy candidates.
WaterGirl
@divF: holy cow-ski! Thank you.
RaflW
AZ Dems have a one seat majority in the state lege.
This asshole is gonna ruin it. Via @bobbybigwheel
joel hanes
I’m not keeping up with the jackaltariat these days, so I’ve no idea if this has already been posted, but:
Eva Diaz, the current D candidate in Arizona state senate district 22 (a blue district) needs some money right away. This is a chance for small contributions to make a big difference.
https://twitter.com/BobbyBigWheel/status/1575888408936710151
WaterGirl
H.E.Wolf
Very late to this thread – and very excited by the addition of Emilia Sykes to the list, and the matching-funds challenge for Mercedes Krause!
Thank you as always to WaterGirl, who’s doing great feats of organization and logistics behind the scenes.
It gives me great hope for the country when I stop and consider the variety of intelligent, skilled, determined candidates and incumbents on the Democratic side of the ledger… if we had time and money enough, we could probably find hundreds who deserve our support! Which is our good fortune, and the USA’s.
WaterGirl
@H.E.Wolf: We have met the $1k challenge for Mercedes, and the match money has gone into the calendar.
So as we speak, Mercedes is at $2,068.09!
I really hadn’t thought of matching for these, but if anyone else is really invested in a particular person on the list, and they want to put up a match for their candidate, we can do that.
H.E.Wolf
@WaterGirl: I suspect this question has been answered before… is there a way for us to look at the individual $ totals in real time, in addition to the snapshots you’ve posted? Many thanks.
WaterGirl
I added a link to this thermometer in the Mobile menu, so maybe that will be helpful for phone people.
WaterGirl
@H.E.Wolf: No one has asked before, but sadly the answer is no.
But here’s a snapshot from just a second ago, so maybe that helps a little?
WaterGirl
@H.E.Wolf: So you can see for instance that Emilia Sykes started the day at $2.77 and is now at $586!
SC54HI
Thanks so much for list of targeted races.
In setting up Election Protection in Key States, this Twitter thread by David Pepper (recently featured in Jane Mayerʻs New Yorker article on Ohio) has good info + fund-raising suggestions for the OH Supreme Court.
Another Scott
@WaterGirl: It looks like several people (D) and (GQP) are running write-in campaigns for that seat according to Ballotpedia (scroll down to District 22).
Let’s see…
Here’s a statement from her – she has the endorsement of the local Democratic Party:
I’m a big fan of BobbyBigWheel, but
here’s her direct ActBlue page.
Donated.
Thanks for the pointers.
Cheers,
Scott.
sab
@SC54HI: The Democrats have excellent candidates running for Ohio S Ct, but only Jennifer Brunner has much name recognition.
WaterGirl
@sab: Are there more OH SC judges running than there are seats to be filled?
Skepticat
@WaterGirl: No, thanks goodness, and thanks for the thought; I’m in Maine (though we may get wisps of Ian later). My nephew and friends in Florida all did relatively well, and Abaco had only rain and some wind. It looks as though I may be able to rebuild in The Bahamas, but with this weather as our new normal, does that may sense for a person as old as I? IAN and DorIAN—is this a trend? MarIAN next?
Skepticat
@bnateAZ:
Boy, do I ever feel your pain—or annoyance.
Kenneth Almquist
Two races which are important for election protection are the Secretary of State elections in Nevada and Arizona. In Nevada, Cisco Aguilar is running against Jim Marchant, who said he would not have certified Biden’s win in Nevada if he had been Secretary of State in 2020. In Arizona, Adrian Fontes is running against Mark Finchem, who as a member of the Arizona Senate tried to get the state legislature to replace the Biden electors chosen by the voters with Trump electors.
Also of interest: the House race in Alaska is competitive this year; fivethirtyeight gives Democrat Mary Peltola (AK-1) a 49% chance.
WaterGirl
@Kenneth Almquist:
Mary Peltola (AK-1) probably belongs on this list. I had forgotten that she had to run again, starting about 45 minutes after she won just recently.
You can be sure that the SOS races in Nevada and Arizona are will be in the top tier for Election Protection in Key States!
Another Scott
@Suzanne: Neato.
Unfortunately, I see no sign of a “donate” button or a pointer of where to donate. Curious.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
H.E.Wolf
@WaterGirl:
Many thanks for the updated snapshot! Yes, it helps a lot. It’s 11 rising thermometer graphs in my imagination. :)
H.E.Wolf
Per Ballotpedia, the OH Supreme Court has 7 Justices: 3 of the positions are on the ballot in November, and 3 Democratic women are running against Republicans for those seats on the Court. Details here: https://ballotpedia.org/Ohio_Supreme_Court_elections,_2022
Ballotpedia includes links to the candidates, and those pages have links to their campaign websites. I’ll put some links in separate comments, below.
H.E.Wolf
Judge Marilyn Zayas (currently on the Ohio 10th District Court of Appeals): https://judgemarilynzayas.com/meet-judge-zayas/
H.E.Wolf
Judge Terri Jamison (currently on the Ohio 10th District Court of Appeals): https://www.votejudgejamison.com/about_terri
H.E.Wolf
OH Supreme Court Associate Justice Jennifer Brunner (running for Chief Justice): https://www.justicebrunner.com/about_Judge_Jennifer_Brunner
WaterGirl
@H.E.Wolf: Thank you so much for all of that!
Do we have any sense of whether money helps? Do judges run ads?
H.E.Wolf
All 3 of them have ActBlue donation pages, which surprised me. It may be related to this:
The Ohio state legislature passed a law requiring party affiliation be listed for judges, after Jennifer Brunner (former OH Secretary of State) was elected to the Ohio Supreme Court in 2020.
If you’d like more information on the Three Judges, I can send you some details in email later today. If Balloon Juice will have its collective plate full with the fundraising campaigns already planned, no need to add these 3.
(Fun Fact: One of them is a former coal-mine worker from West Virginia.)
WaterGirl
@H.E.Wolf: These would go in the Election Protection in Key States thermometer that we’ll get to as soon as we see tour goals for the Winnable House Races in Purple Districts.
In today’s post, I am going to ask Ohio peeps to clue us in on how this all works for OH judges. Do they run ads? Is money useful?
WaterGirl
@H.E.Wolf: Some details by email would be much appreciated!
MazeDancer
Get addresses to write PostCards for Emilia Sykes at PostCardPatriots.com. Or click my nym.