We have 4 just 2 candidates on our list who are not yet at $3,500:
Tony Vargas (NE-02)
Yadira Caraveo (CO-08)
Susie Lee (NV-03)
Emilia Sykes (OH-13)
I’m hoping we can get them there today!
Heres’ the tentative plan:
- get the 5 remaining candidates to $3,500
- un-pause all 13 candidate on the list
- leave the link to the thermometer up in the sidebar (no thermometer, but a link under Targeted Fundraising)
- start promoting in posts: Election Protection in Key States
- revisit the Purple House list as soon as the Q3 fundraising figures come out
In round numbers:
Eric Sorenson needs $100
Yadira Caraveo $125
Tony Vargas needs $225
Susie Lee needs $1,000 $800 $475 $288
Emilia Sykes needs $1,300 $700 $325 $150
Unless you customize the amounts, donations to this thermometer will be split 5 ways.
At Post Time
These 6 have reached at least $4,500 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)
*Susan Wild (PA-07)
*Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
These 5 have reached at least $3,500 each, so they are currently paused on the list.
*Mercedes Krause (NV-02)
*Josh Riley (NY-19)
*Eric Sorenson (IL-17)
*Tony Vargas (NE-02)
*Yadira Caraveo (CO-08)
Current Recipients
Susie Lee (NV-03)
Emilia Sykes (OH-13)
Up for Consideration As Soon As Fundraising Figures are Released
Mary Peltola (AK-01)
Greg Landsman (OH-01)
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.
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, and possibly pivotal judges on state Supreme Courts.
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!
Dorothy A. Winsor
Yay! My mail-in ballot came
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
Kicked in $15 each for Lee and Sykes.
WaterGirl
@Alison Rose 💙🌻💛: Thank you!
They aren’t unpopular, they were just the last ones added to the list, so they missed out on the earlier donations. :-)
WaterGirl
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Yay!
I have been wondering when mine is coming.
WaterGirl
*Eric Sorenson (IL-17) is at $3,500. Yay!
one down, 4 to go.
cain
I’m definitely concerned for the Oregon governor race – we have a spoiler who is vaguely liberal. Oregon is the only state has unlimited access to abortion. We need to spend money hard to make sure that the governorship stays D. Otherwise, we’re going to be stuck with a crazy person for 4 years. I’m sure the GOP is relaly happy having this spoiler – who is kind of conservative herself.
WaterGirl
@cain: So your spoiler is running as an independent?
Kelly
@WaterGirl: Yes, running as an independent. The spoiler is Betsy Johnson, the rightmost Democrat in the Legislature for many years. A timber heiress she is mostly financed by Nike billionaire Phil Knight, the richest man in Oregon. Major Republican donor for the last several cycles. Phil added $2,000,000 to her campaign this week after $1,500,000 in seed money to get her on the ballot. Betsy’s sole liberal position is legal abortion. %100 NRA rating. Against anything that might actually slow climate change.
A pure and simple ratfucking operation. Republican Drazan and Dem Kotek are polling in the low 30’s with Johnson polling around 20. Drazan has a lead of maybe 2%.
WaterGirl
@Kelly: I had to google, but i see that the spoiler is indeed running as an independent. To do that with no chance of winning makes you either stupid or evil.
edit: oh, i see that you did start with Independent. I had missed that!
grandmaBear
In for $50 for Emilia Sykes.
WaterGirl
@grandmaBear: Thank you! Really hoping we can get these done today and get into Election Protection!
WaterGirl
We need just $1,700 to get all of them done.
Customizing the thermometer to give to a specific candidate…
$54.50Just $29.50 would finish off Yadira Caraveo$142.56Just $112.56 would finish off Tony VargasRaflW
In for $75 (using my on weird calculus of the spit :) )
-R
Rose Weiss
@cain: I sent Kotek(D) $50, but in my small ultra-conservative town most of the signs I see are for Drazan(R). I admit I count on Portland and Eugene to pull us through on races like this.
JPL
I’m just hoping that the Survey USA poll results are correct for GA. OMG It’s so obvious that character doesn’t matter for GA republicans. In fact, Herschel could shoot someone on Peachtree St.
WaterGirl
@JPL:
Survey USA poll results?
WaterGirl
Emilia Sykes just broke $3,000! And Susie Lee is nearly at $2,900!
We need just over $1,000 for these two to clear the board. So close. Fingers crossed.
WaterGirl
Oh my gosh, Susie and Emilia have both broken the $3k barrier!
Susie: $3,037!
Emilia: $3,175!
Ukai
Just chipped in $100.
WaterGirl
@Ukai: Thank you so much! I think we might just get this done tonight.
WaterGirl
Susie: Just $350 to meet our goal for Susie!
Emilia: just $212 to meet our goal for Emilia!
mvr
Kicked in $25. Thanks for doing this!
Leslie
Kicked in $100.
WaterGirl
Holy shit! I think someone just put in $1,000! And bumped Susie Lee and Emilia Sykes over the top on their $3,500 goal.
Whoever you are, you are truly an angel! Thank you so much.