This just received in email from the Noriega Campaign.
I'm sure New Year's festivities are keeping you busy, but I just wanted to pass on the great news that, thanks to donors like you, we've broken our end-of-year fundraising goal!
Because of you, we're on the brink of reaching a major milestone for our campaign: $1 million raised. We're $50,000 away from reaching $1 million raised since Rick entered the race. We only have until midnight tonight to make it happen. Will you take a few minutes to help us meet our new $1 million goal before you head out for the evening?
Google Alerts are da bomb. They bring all sorts of interesting sites to my attn. For example, this video comes via Blogging All Things Brownsville, a blog I didn't know about that seems to be a great place to keep track of, well, All Things Brownsville...
Follow me below the fold for a couple of other interesting items the Google sent my way.
Rick has a new video out thanking the netroots (that's YOU!) for helping the campaign so far.
Let's get ready to kick it up (especially since we're bringing K-T home to Texas to help make a new U.S. Senator), and make the Decider a money raiser for Team Noriega!!!
As the misshapen priorities displayed on the Senate floor demonstrated last week, we need more and better Democrats in Congress. We need them representing our progressive "Move On" values.
Rick Noriega is such a Democrat, which is why I got involved in the movement to draft him for the U.S. Senate race against John Cornyn. I hope as you get to know him in the coming months of this campaign you'll agree that he is a fitting successor to the Texas progressive tradition of Barbara Jordan, Ann Richards, and LBJ-with a little Lloyd Bentsen thrown in for good measure.
John Cornyn has been on the wrong side of countless issues that are critical to Texans in general and DFT supporters in particular. Beyond that, well, he's just an embarrassment. But we're not telling you something you didn't already know, right?
Democracy for Texas has never endorsed a candidate for public office. But this race is too important to the future of our state and our country not to put all of our resources behind the candidate we feel best represents our "socially progressive, fiscally responsible" philosophy.
John Cornyn has been on the wrong side of countless issues that are critical to Texans in general and DFT supporters in particular. Beyond that, well, he's just an embarrassment. But we're not telling you something you didn't already know, right?
Democracy for Texas has never endorsed a candidate for public office. But this race is too important to the future of our state and our country not to put all of our resources behind the candidate we feel best represents our "socially progressive, fiscally responsible" philosophy.
Rules:
1. One person, one vote. If you vote more than once, all of your votes will be tossed.
2. You must be a Texan.
Click Here to Vote. Poll is only open for a few more days, so get in there and make your voice heard. Then tell your Texas friends to get in there, too.
Spitting on the founders once again, Junior John and Princess Big Hair have voted against cloture for the Dodd-Specter-Leahy Restore Habeas act.
Still time to work the calls according to Christy at FDL, "Move to reconsider and note the absence of a quorum. So we're still working the vote gang…keeps those phones ringing, please."
So, take a few minutes and call if you can.
Cornyn, John- (R - TX) Class II
517 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2934
Web Form: cornyn.senate.gov/contact/index.html
Hutchison, Kay Bailey- (R - TX) Class I
284 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5922
Web Form: hutchison.senate.gov/contact.html
R. G. Ratcliffe got sucked into some very sloppy journalism (Hal at Half-Empty is thinking summer school might be in R.G.'s future).
I confess I was taken aback by the out of context quoting myself. I should have known better. R.G., while he honored my request to use my pseudonym instead of my given name in the story, got the basic fact of my byline wrong (points upward).
While R.G. is generally too addicted to horserace political analysis for my taste, he's usually a fairly reliable reporter. For example, he's the one who broke last week's story about Mikal Watts bragging (or pretending) his campaign contributions to an appellate court would make it more receptive to his legal arguments.
But what R.G. let himself be snookered into by Jason Stanford really takes the journalistic cake.
Wow, you're amazing. Yesterday, we reached our $20,000 fundraising goal -- 36 hours before our deadline tonight!
But now, we're raising the stakes. We've set a new goal of $25,000. We've got less than ten hours to go to reach the new goal, and we're less than $4,000 away. Rick will be coming home to Texas from his Army Precommand leadership training tonight. Let's show him how much support he has in Texas and across the country.
Help us reach our new $25,000 goal. Fill Rick's boots by making a contribution before midnight tonight!
Today marks the one month point of the Texas Bloggers drive for 800 participants on board the Noriega Express to give Texas at least one U.S. Senator who won't embarass us every time he opens his mouth.
A lot has happened in that month, and it could not have happened without YOU.
With a hat tip to our friends in the Nutmeg State who blazed this trail with Ned Lamont last year, follow me on the flip to see what a Lone Star movement looks like...
But the momentum is building nicely (have you joined us on the Noriega Express yet?) and there's been a lot more postings on Rick Noriega for Senate. Follow me on the flip for some examples, and if you know of one I've missed, feel free to add it in the comments.
At a stop in El Paso, the junior Senator assured The El Paso Times:
For those wondering whether Fort Bliss growth was attached to the war in Iraq, Cornyn said, "if the war ends, it's only going to get better." The senator said the current military "is just too small" and would have to grow, war or no war.
"It's just the nature of the world we're living in. We need a bigger Army," he said.
Where exactly do you think those soldiers are going to come from, Senator Cornyn?
Overnight we broke 300 contributors on Act Blue for the Rick Noriega campaign.
And that's before the Blue America chat this afternoon at Firedoglake (2 p.m. EDT, 1 p.m. CDT, and 11 a.m. Pacific)
Please come by if you have some time. Ask Rick a question or two, and let's show the national netroots there are a lot more Texans like Rick Noriega than like John Cornyn.
