Help desperately needed in California - Democratic Underground

Greyskye

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Thu Nov-06-08 03:02 PM
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Help desperately needed in California

Northern California's 4th Congressional District has been a Republican stronghold for as long as I can remember - and I've lived in this area for 30 years now. Our previous representative didn't run for re-election, as he was heavily implicated in the Jack Abramoff scandal.

The Democratic challenger is an outstanding candidate by the unlikely name of Charlie Brown. https://www.charliebrownforcongress.org/index.php

He is currently losing by about 400 votes - with 40,000 provisional and absentee ballots yet to be counted. His opponent, a Republican from Southern California, was brought in to try and hold it for the Republicans.

Please read the below email I just received, and if you can, contribute to the effort of getting Charlie elected. And please pass this message on to anyone you know who might help.

Obama, Prop 8, and Charlie Brown were my three highest priority elections. The song says that "Two out of Three ain't Bad", but One out of Three truly sucks! Please help!

Thanks!

https://www.charliebrownforcongress.org/contribute.php

I just received this email from the Brown Campaign:

A record number of voters turned out for Tuesday's election.

And, after more than 300,000 ballots were cast in CA-04, the race is tied. The current difference stands at less than half of 1% (less than 500 votes).

The race is way too close to call. And there are more than 40,000 vote-by-mail and provisional ballots still to be counted.

Once all the votes are tallied, we are confident that Charlie Brown will be the 4 th District's next Congressman, but we need your help to make sure every vote is counted.

Please Contribute to our Election Protection Fund.

Yesterday, Tom McClintock hired an election attorney and brought in a team of lawyers to "watch" the locations where absentee and provisional ballots are being counted.

With McClintock's massive fundraising list, he has the financial ability to hire as many lawyers as he needs to challenge the votes of thousands of people who faithfully cast their ballots.

We need to combat this, but that takes resources.

Please click here to make a donation to help us fight for every last vote.

McClintock has history with recounts, and was on the short end of a fight with Steve Westly in 2002 after a similar situation, so we know he's going fight.

But rest assured that we will not give up - we will not surrender - we will not rest until we make sure that every single vote is counted.

Please donate right now to ensure a fair process to count the remaining votes.

Many of us have looked forward to this post-election day for such a long time - as a country we are headed in a new direction, with so many new and excited voters participating in the process, we cannot afford to allow new voters to become disenchanted with the system already.

We all remember what happened the last time a right-wing politician started challenging election results. Your additional contribution of $25, $50 or whatever you can afford will go a long way to helping prevent a repeat of history.

Thank you,

Todd Stenhouse
Campaign Manager

P.S. - Please contribute today , and forward this email to friends, neighbors, family and all those interested in maintaining the integrity of our electoral process.

https://www.charliebrownforcongress.org/contribute.php

I just donated more. Please donate to help turn district 4 BLUE!

Please :kick: and REC and DONATE!. Having a Democratic Representative would be a landmark event in this district!!!