From an email today from the Waltz campaign:
Today, I submitted the campaign fundraising report. It may come as a surprise to some who have not been following this race, but this quarter, you all have raised over $120,000! The goal was to break $100,000, and you did it and then some. I cannot thank each and every one of you enough.
By crossing this fundraising threshold, our campaign is on track to be one of the premier challenges to "Just Say No" conservatives this election year.
These results are only surprising to those who underestimated you. They forgot that we still want our country to move forward. We did not all become extremists in the last few months. We just demand better from our party and our Congress.
And while the fundraising numbers themselves are more than impressive in this state you begin to realize that their is much more of John Waltz than just successfully raising funds. He is channeling the anger felt by Americans by pointing out that not only do the tea-bag loonies feel left behind by the direction of our country the last few decades, but Progressives and working Americans are enraged by the lack of understanding of the Washington elites that we too are tired of being ignored:
This is why we will win- our message is simple and true. This year, voters have a choice between conspiracy rants or commonsense solutions. I am tired of hearing garbage about birth certificates and other nonsense. The only papers I care about are pink slips and am tired of seeing Republicans block all progress only to continue harping on nonsense conspiracy theories. "We the people," the hardworking Democratic majority, get it here in Kentucky, and it's about time the Republicans heard from us ordinary people instead of the other way around.
We are all frustrated, but who is going to actually do something positive? I am as mad as everyone else, only I actually want to do something about it. I get the frustration. Congress is moving too slowly and help is not speedy or even available at all. Folks are tired of weak politicians playing the fiddle while our country struggles.
Being ignored by the government is not a tea party sentiment, it is a progressive feeling. So I decided to run when pundits and others told me it was pointless. You can't be a progressive. You have to be rich to run for Congress. The list goes on but we showed them otherwise.
And indeed there is a lot to be mad about in this country. While the Obama and Clinton Administrations have been a bit of fresh air in a gas chamber of horrible Republican Presidents and policies they were not exactly warriors for the working class. They really seem to be content to be relegated to "damage control".
While damage control is better than what the Republicans offer in this country we simply must begin to fix some of the damage that was done too. We must bring middle-class jobs to America and we should start spending money to rebuild our own country instead of spending it to blow up and rebuild the middle-east over and over again. We should never again consider tax cuts during a time of war and we simply need the rich and Corporate America, who have been given break after break in the last few decades to be patriotic about something besides greed and raise wages, quit outsourcing, and spread some wealth to those who actually for it. Was that not a central message of the 2008 election??
Until wages rise, jobs with benefits are more plentiful and more Americans have more wealth to put into the economy then our country may never truly recover from the Republican crash of the 2000s. But to do this our country simply must elect better people. People that are frustrated because they care and they want their neighbors to recover the same way Wall St. did.
As someone totally unaffiliated with the Waltz campaign that has been inside a couple of Progressive campaigns in this state I can say I honestly have a lot of respect for what they have accomplished. Unfortunately you need money in this current election system and Waltz has shown great viability in that area. The power to run television is really the key to winning in some of the rural parts of Kentucky and Waltz will be able to do that.
Howard Dean and Democracy for America have already noticed how viable the Waltz campaign really is. If we are facing losses this year in an anti-incumbent year would it not be nice to sneak in and pick one off nobody expected?? John Waltz offers us just that opportunity. He is hardworking, likable and Progressive and could very well appeal to the folks over there in the fourth when he reaches them, and he will.
We simply must support real Progressives wherever they may appear in our country if our movement will again indeed dictate policy for the working class. I hope some of you will join me in sending John Waltz a donation of any amount. Nothing is too small for a Progressive trying to fight for the working class. As you can see if you contribute on ActBlue, you definitely are not alone:
http://www.actblue.com/entity/...
I think we should all believe in John Waltz and show America that Progressive vision can win anywhere a candidate will display it and has the funds to show it off. What else is a movement about?
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