If there is a legitimate democratic candidate in Ryan's district...

[WCGreen]

Let's support that candidate and pound Ryan so we might get his seat.

The rule is he can run for both at the same time.

The campaign in a nutshell, when normal people express their intentions to move on, the people who employ them usually ask them to leave... Let's give congressman Ryan a chance to make a real break, vote for.....

[Tumbulu]

1. Good idea!

You are sure on the ball!

[Ruby the Liberal]

2. Rob Zerban

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021114196

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I would really enjoy seeing that man out of work after November...

Completely out of work after January as well.

What a shame, for one so young.

[Douglas Carpenter]

4. I just sent Rob Zerban a few bucks yesterday..may I suggest we all think about doing the same?

Even $3 or $5 or whatever would help..


link:

https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/pccc_zerban_petitions

[elleng]

6. Good. May do the same.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. I just donated to him. Thanks for the link! n/t

[WCGreen]

5. I'm going to send $50 tomorrow and hope I can arrange my finances to sent at least

another $50 in october...

[Ruby the Liberal]

7. Thanks for this thread.

Reminded me that I wanted to put links to him and Powell in my sig.

[pa28]

9. I heard Ron Zerban on the Ed Schulz show a couple of days ago.

He's legit.

Forceful, articulate and ready to stand up for traditional party values. This guy comes off as a polished and credible candidate in a district Obama won in 2008.

The issue on a national level will be gutting Medicare and privatizing social security. Ryan will be the poster boy for throwing granny off a cliff by election day. He'll also be the guy who wants to eliminate your mortgage and child care deduction to pay for a 1% tax rate on Mitt Romney's 2010 return.

It's kind of a longshot but I think quite a few people in Ryan's district will take a critical look at his agenda and they'll also be faced with the choice of splitting their ballot on election day.

They'll see the name "Ryan" twice and they might just reject him.

[CarmanK]

10. Put my money where my mouth is. Sent Zerban a contribution tho I live in MD.

[Scuba]

11. Thanks for the post and support for Rob Zerban.

[WCGreen]

12. Some links to Ron Zerban, the man running against Little Lord Fautlaroy....

In a release from his campaign Rob Zerban, Democratic challenger to 1st Congressional District against Representative Paul Ryan (R-Janesville), announced his strongest fundraising quarter of the 2012 cycle.

From Jan. 1, to March 31, 2012, the Zerban campaign reported they raised $326,000, for a total raised this cycle of $840,000. The campaign ends the quarter with $426,000 cash on hand. The campaign reported a fundraising increase of 50% from their 4th quarter report, and an increase in the donor base of 75%.

From that $326,000 raised, the campaign said $305,000 of it came from individual contributions, and $151,000 of that was raised in individual contributions under $200


http://muskego.patch.com/articles/ryan-challenger-bouyed-by-fundraising-stats

From Esquire....

Zerban, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, a former chef who started two restaurants of his own, and a former businessman from Kenosha, on the district's far eastern end, is coming off the best fundraising quarter he's had, having raised $340,000 in the first three months of 2012. Ryan, it should be said, raised nearly 10 times that much. Nevertheless, Zerban's tracking to be the toughest challenge that Ryan's had in a congressional district that went solidly for the president four years ago. He's doing the best he can to make Ryan a kind of anomaly, and to highlight the differences between the Paul Ryan who is the star of Fox News — the allegedly bold budgetary wizard beloved of pundit wonks on both sides of the aisle — and the Paul Ryan who got through high school and college partly on Social Security survivors benefits, whose entire career almost has been spent carrying water in Washington conservative politics.

In an odd way, Rob Zerban is turning the Mitt Romney playbook against Paul Ryan, a career politician who's never had to meet a payroll.


Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/rob-zerban-vs-paul-ryan-8061341#ixzz23Q4AHLtR

[WCGreen]

13. I want to kick this.... It's important that we all send this guy a few more bucks...

He's got a real chance of taking this guy back to Randonia where he belongs....

[emsimon33]

14. I am doing the same.

[WCGreen]

15. Kick this bad boy....