"And as for YOU, you shall have NO earmarks for Christmas!"Cong. John Murtha speaks authoritatively on The Surge:
“There is no way the surge will work.” John Murtha, March 2007
“I think the surge is working.” John Murtha, November, 2007
Generally, I don't cross-post between this site and my other one, but I'll make an exception thisweekend. You'll find a longer version of this piece at CampaignVictory2008A. Any ideas you want to share on defeating Murtha will be very welcome.
On my other site, you will see this weekend approximately 45 "Bloggers 4 Russell." All of them are "active blogs" who get a number of visitors every week. Some of the blogs may get 30 visitors in a week. Others, like The Pink Flamingo (Cindy's site), 911 Families (Tim's site), and the band of mothers (Bev's site) get tens of thousands of visitors in a week.
Michelle Malkin has one of the most popular blogs in the universe, and she's strongly supporting William. The Blogging effort does three things. First, it creates "buzz," that is talk about Russell's candidacy by many thousands of people. Second, it attracts volunteers who will mainly seek out voters. Third, it will draw contributors to Russell's site.
Right now, contributors are critical because a campaign can't run on "air." If you have a blog and support William Russell, you need to sign up now. You can do so by leaving a comment (with your e-mail address and/or blog link) or by e-mailing me at TalkTop65@aol.com.
By the end of this year (it's still 2007, isn't it?) we should have 100-plus Bloggers 4 Russell. By next October, a month before the election, we should have more than 500 -- and perhaps as many as a thousand. If bloggers approach the Russell-Murtha race systematically and frequently, they should attract (and include) thousands of voters in PA's 12th District.
They should also attract many contributors. Yes, we'd love to get the big bucks $2300 (or $4600) contributions that will flow into Murtha's coffers. But right now we're asking for $10, $25, and $50. Of course, we'll be overjoyed in those cases where we got larger contributions, as we have in several cases.
1 comment:
I'm just a poor Floridian who was reared in eastern Pennsylvania. But I can blog, and do! I cannot find any place to "Join" a Bloggers 4 Russell blogroll. You need that! You need to have images - logos - the bloggers can copy and use, and you need a post explaining how to add a blog to the roll and showing the code that needs to be added.
(I've done this for my "Run, Fred, Run!" blogroll and a "Stop Rudy!" blogroll. So if you're running this excellent blogroll, you'd be well off posting a "Join the Blogroll" post.
I cannot send money but I can urge folks to get the word out the Murtha can be beaten! So get hopping! LOL
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