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You are here: Home / Economics / C.R.E.A.M. / Don’t forget the Motor City

Don’t forget the Motor City

by DougJ|  July 13, 20201:55 pm| 16 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Political Fundraising

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There was a good article about how incredibly well Democratic fundraising efforts are going this year in the Senate. There was one exception – Michigan where it isn’t so much that the Democratic incumbent is doing badly but that the Republican challenger is raising even more. Gary Peters, the Democratic incumbent, is a a great Senator. But because he’s running against a guy raising tons of money and who did really well against an incumbent Senator in 2018 (losing by only six points), the race is only listed as “Leans Democrat”.

Peters is the kind of Senator we need to support. Let’s raise a little money for him.

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  1. 1.

    rikyrah

    July 13, 2020 at 2:01 pm

    Thanks for this

  2. 2.

    Baud

    July 13, 2020 at 2:02 pm

    What @rikyrah said.

  3. 3.

    Mary G

    July 13, 2020 at 2:24 pm

    Been giving to him monthly since last year. I hope you’ll do a real longshot – Abby Broyles, who’s running against the loathsome Jim Imhof in Oklahoma. After all, Native Americans now own half the state! He can’t be all that popular even if he’s up by 19 points. Here’s a FTFNYT article from last year about how he used his position to keep water levels high for the boat dock at his lake house despite the fact that it causes flooding at a town upstream.

  4. 4.

    Baud

    July 13, 2020 at 2:26 pm

    @Mary G:  Perhaps too much to hope for, but, man, what a great win that would be.

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    Haroldo

    July 13, 2020 at 2:33 pm

    Thanks for this service, Dougj.

  6. 6.

    Mary G

    July 13, 2020 at 2:36 pm

    @Baud:

    We’ll never know if we don’t try. Same thing I said about Doug Jones back when some jackals didn’t think he could beat Roy Moore. And it was Fauci’s Facebook interview with Jones that got Twitler to start attacking Fauci openly instead of just disappearing him.

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    Benw

    July 13, 2020 at 2:45 pm

    I’m blowing off work to bake a deep chocolate vegan cake. Fuck yea

  8. 8.

    DougJ

    July 13, 2020 at 2:58 pm

    put something about her in the comments and I’ll do it

  9. 9.

    Mary G

    July 13, 2020 at 2:59 pm

    @Benw: We have our first zucchini, too big to be good to eat as is, but great grated and made into chocolate cake, which I’m thinking about doing.

  10. 10.

    Elizabelle

    July 13, 2020 at 3:01 pm

    @Mary G:   Now that you said that, you must share the recipe.

    Chocolate zucchini cake?  Am there!

  11. 11.

    rikyrah

    July 13, 2020 at 3:25 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    pretty much anything with chocolate…please share….

  12. 12.

    Benw

    July 13, 2020 at 3:33 pm

    @Mary G: hells yea. We call that “zucchini bread”. Makes it healthier :)

  13. 13.

    frosty

    July 13, 2020 at 3:43 pm

    Done!

  14. 14.

    tokyokie

    July 13, 2020 at 3:49 pm

    @rikyrah:

    pretty much anything with chocolate…please share….

    Milo Minderbender would like you to try the chocolate-covered cotton.

  15. 15.

    Lynn in the D.

    July 13, 2020 at 4:26 pm

    Just donated.  John James, ugh…do not want.

  16. 16.

    TL

    July 13, 2020 at 6:08 pm

    “This is supposed to be the new world”

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