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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts)
Mon Feb 29, 2016, 01:48 PM Feb 2016

Let's try something a bit wild - Contributed: $37,386,632 Goal: $40,000,000

Email from Bernie

Today is one of the most important days of our campaign: the final FEC fundraising deadline before Super Tuesday. Let me tell you why this matters.

Eleven states vote tomorrow, and twelve more vote over the next two weeks. It is the most important stretch of our campaign. And what today’s deadline will tell us is whether or not working people coming together and contributing small amounts of money can compete with the millionaires and billionaires bankrolling Hillary Clinton’s campaign and her largest super PACs.

So I have a wild idea: I want to challenge you to help our campaign hit a goal that will absolutely astonish the political and financial establishment of this country. It’s a bit of a stretch, but it’s within the spirit of this campaign to accomplish what everyone else thinks is impossible. So here it goes:

Make another contribution to our campaign and help us hit our goal of raising $40 million in February before tonight’s critical FEC fundraising deadline.

If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately:

We started today having raised $36,105,613 in February from more than 1.2 million individual contributions. I have no idea if we can reach our goal by midnight. But if we do, it will not only send an unmistakable message about the size and strength of our movement — it will also ensure we have the resources to win this Democratic primary. That’s why your contribution before midnight is so important.
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Let's try something a bit wild - Contributed: $37,386,632 Goal: $40,000,000 (Original Post) Playinghardball Feb 2016 OP
DU for Bernie tk2kewl Feb 2016 #1
Threw in another $10... datguy_6 Feb 2016 #2
Done! arcane1 Feb 2016 #3
$20 more... Playinghardball Feb 2016 #4
I'm barely making my monthly bills Autumn Colors Feb 2016 #5
Well I finally kicked in today. tnlurker Feb 2016 #6
Done! N/T BeanCounting Feb 2016 #7
Ok giving ten more! ALBliberal Feb 2016 #8
 

Autumn Colors

(2,379 posts)
5. I'm barely making my monthly bills
Mon Feb 29, 2016, 02:22 PM
Feb 2016

... but I just gave a tiny donation (my first in quite a few years since finances started circling the drain). It may end up being my only donation, but tomorrow and the coming month are important.

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