MoveOn is within about $7000 of its 1.5 MILLION goal since the Betrayus "scandal"

[karlrschneider]

:D :D :D
https://pol.moveon.org/donate/donate.html

[tularetom]

1. They're now within $6975

I just kicked in another $25...

[rodeodance]

4. umm. think i will spot them a ten.

[karlrschneider]

7. Excellent

:yourock:

[zeemike]

2. That didn't take long n/t

[rodeodance]

3. k

[Emillereid]

5. Me too! Just gave $25.

[karlrschneider]

13. I was watching the totals, trying to be the one who put it over the top!

No way to know but I was close...
:D

[Catherine Vincent]

6. I'm glad I was a part of that goal.

But why does the donation form ask what company you work for?

[Cha]

9. I don't know why they asked

maybe it was to get a sense of the cross appeal of what they're trying to do?

I gave $17.76 :patriot: :patriot: Come-on gang..Recommend for the Front Page, Por Favore!

[shirlden]

15. They have to ask

It is the law.

[Cha]

8. Rec-o-mmended!

Sweet Moveon needs some last minute bucks to show those dems in congress who voted "yay" what we think of their betrayal.

This should never have come up for a vote but since it did..we're making freaking LEMONADE, anyone? ..pink at that..just throw some cherries in! B-)

[Canuckistanian]

10. Off to the big show

That's stupendous news.

[Cha]

12. "The big show"?

I'm glad you think moveon deserves our support! :)

[Canuckistanian]

23. I meant the Greatest page

But, yes, MoveOn deserves everyone's support. If you love security, democracy, and real freedom.

[Cha]

27. Ah so!

Thank you, fellow lover of Democracy, Freedom, and real security!

Edit~ I just got a Thank You! from moveon that made me choke up!

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

11. done, donated, glad to do it!

:-) MKJ

[mcg]

14. MoveOn has reached its 1.5 MILLION goal, new goal is 2 MILLION.

[Matariki]

16. WooT!

excellent. eat that cornyn!

[Bluebear]

17. Donated. New goal 2 million!

[Flabbergasted]

21. Thanks Bluebear. Your Awesome.

[DrDan]

18. got my money yesterday

[blogslut]

19. heehee

Love it. I already donated all I could yesterday. But it's nice to see they exceeded one million and are now shooting for two million.

[Nutmegger]

20. I stand with MoveOn...

I just donated... Eat that REPUKES!

[madfloridian]

22. Did you get an email? I did not get one yet.

?

[la la]

26. I actually received

2 emails!

I just donated my $25 for the month last night.

( also, I wondered about the 'employer' box that needed to be filled in --I'm retired and I left it blank - popped back error at me and I just typed retired in it and it went through.)

[Cha]

29. I just received a Thank You! I donated,

from another day's link.."$17.76" I saw it on DU :)

[karlrschneider]

34. Their mail system must be swamped, I just now got one from donating 2 hours ago!

:D
:toast:

[tbyg52]

24. Great news!

I'm happy to have been a part of it.

[spanone]

25. i like to thank the pretzlenut, thank the congresscritters

moveon certainly got their money's worth.

[Cha]

28. I hope that paid for the

betrayus ad and will spring for some more..if any newspapers will take them?!

[ljm2002]

36. Oh, it more than paid for the "Betray Us" ad...

...that ad cost $65,000 to print in the NYT.

This is so great! Basically what you have here, is an organization that is taking the friggin' megaphone away from the lily-livered wing of our party and shouting over them -- directly on behalf of the angry and alienated base who has something important to say but is being shut out by the cowardly elements in their own party -- so as to reach the population who are being fed establishment pablum every day.

Good on 'em, and good on us!

[Ghost in the Machine]

30. Damn, I wish they'd get pissed at one of *my* sites!

Maybe I need to start sending them more bum kits?


http://www.offrampbums.com

With 2 million dollars, I could put a lot of full page ads in a lot of local papers in East Tennessee... Chattanooga, Cleveland, Dayton, Athens, Sweetwater, Knoxville, Crossville.

I could do a few different ads, too. Make one about republics hating the troops and advocate for them to keep dying.

Another could be how the republics hate the poor and show how they have struck down the minimum wage increase repeatedly, all while giving themselves raises every year.

Another one could detail the crimes committed by Bushit via domestic wiretapping and how he LIED us into a war of aggression in which we invaded and occupied a sovereign nation who had done nothing to us. It would help to mention the Saudi Connection and their secret flight out of the country after 9-11, when all other flights were suspended in the US.

Oh, I'm on a roll here! Let's get making some ads!

[Sukie1941]

31. I contributed yesterday

Little bits here and there really make a difference!

[dmr]

32. Good news! I just sent money

again. I have such a hard time wrapping my mind around what our Congressional leaders did this past week. If anything, what they did, and what Bush* has said, only solidifies us further. I know it made me even angrier - as if that was even possible!

[Rex]

33. Giggles

:D

[Kablooie]

35. I threw my 2 bucks in also. (or maybe a little bit more.) Heading to 2 mill now.

[Hamlette]

37. I was furious at moveon for the ad, swore I'd never donate to them again. Then the Senate BS.

I just sent 'em money. I'm more mad at the Senate than Moveon. (I was mad at moveon because it was distracting. I'm mad at the Senate for falling for it. I'll call my Congresscritters on Monday and tell them what I did and why.)

[Spiffarino]

53. Same here.

I didn't hate the ad for its content, I hated that it was so childish and obvious. Petraeus/Betray us? Give me a break. Why not just call him "fartface" or "stinkbreath" if you're going to be that juvenile. I expect lameness like that from the right wing, not our side.

Then came the fake GOP outrage...I couldn't wait to give money to MoveOn. And I'll kick in another donation today.

[dickbearton]

59. Right, they should have called him what he is: a stooge for the Criminal Bush...

A neocon nazi enabler. The Admiral can call him a chicken
shit, I call him a complicit stooge for the traitor, war
criminal Bush.

[Spiffarino]

62. I would have played it differently

The fact is that it wasn't the Petraeus report, even if Petraeus had written it. The report Congress demanded was Bush's report. Bush used - and continues to use - the General for cover. Bush is an unabashed pussy, a wimp, a wafer. He uses people to cover for his fuck-ups. Petraeus is a convenience.

MoveOn's big mistake was putting Petraeus' up as the bad guy. Civilians are the ones making the bad decisions on Iraq, and the General is only a dupe. Bush should have been put up as the betrayer. Petraeus is just another Bush sycophant.

[HughMoran]

38. Yep, I sent them an additional $50 after donating to place that ad

I'm really enjoying this. MoveOn is not perfect, but they've never played games with my head - not once. I know where they are coming from and they are consistent.

[AllyCat]

56. And their position now is END THE WAR!!!!

What more do we need to know? If Congress isn't going to do what we sent them there to do in November, then we have to go elsewhere to get our message out.

Gave money for the Petraeus ad because I thought it was a good question and had well-researched facts to back up the content of the ad. Once I get paid this week, they'll get more.

[DeepModem Mom]

39. K&R!

[tkmorris]

40. CALL CONGRESS RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!!!

And ask them to pretty please offer up another "sense of the Senate" resolution admonishing MoveOn. Hell, maybe they could get 5 million out of it.

[robinlynne]

44. which hopefully they will use to sponsor good candidates against the dinos!

[Hekate]

41. Is anyone in the Democratic Party even paying attention to the MoveOn phenomenon?Don't they get it?!

Doesn't the Democratic establishment have a freaking clue how many active voters make up MoveOn?

MoveOn is amazing, and I love them. Even when they're wrong, they're right.

Hekate

[Joanne98]

42. They're probably listening to their idiot strategists!

[robinlynne]

45. I think those in the party deal with tens of millions. They want the right wing money.

[Jacobin]

52. Most are too invested in keeping the Iraq clusterfark going on

while pretending to want to do something different to placate voters.

:cry:

Sad but I believe true

[AllyCat]

57. Just out of curiosity, how many members ARE in MoveOn? n/t

[Hekate]

60. 3.3 million according to Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoveOn

That's a bunch of people, and you'd think the Democratic leadership would take note.

Hekate

[bjobotts]

43. Just kicked it $25 but god I don't like to get all that email.

Afraid to sign up just to be able to cancel email notifications. Unsubscribed from emails sent me but still get them anyway and they fill up my box. Shit happens 100X a day I guess but I hate getting emails about it all. Just saying...

Loved their condemnation of congres ad...it was great...kiss ass little chicken shits.

[sce56]

46. Just between you and me that was a fake one! Shh it's a secret

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/21/115032/846

New York, NY (Rotters)- In a vote of 3,100,000 to 100,000 yesterday, the members of a massive nationwide progressive political action group voted overwhelmingly to place a second ad in the New York Times this weekend condemning the U.S. Congress for wasting time condemning them over a previous ad condemning General David Petraeus as "General Betray us". The ad implies that both houses of Congress, in particular the leadership, are "Ass-kissing little chickenshits", a term which has been used to refer to General Petraeus by his superiors in the past.

[bbgrunt]

48. get yourself a free email account with something like yahoo and

give out that address when signing petitions etc.

[bbgrunt]

47. i sent my$ in.

[nvme]

49. 500k a minute

CHICAGO, Sept. 21 -- The money spent on one day of the Iraq
war could buy homes for almost 6,500 families or health care
for 423,529 children, or could outfit 1.27 million homes with
renewable electricity, according to the American Friends
Service Committee, which displayed those statistics on large
banners in cities nationwide Thursday and Friday.

The war is costing $720 million a day or $500,000 a minute,
according to the group's analysis of the work of Nobel
Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard public
finance lecturer Linda J. Bilmes.

The estimates made by the group, which opposes the conflict,
include not only the immediate costs of war but also ongoing
factors such as long-term health care for veterans, interest
on debt and replacement of military hardware.

"The wounded are coming home, and many of them have
severe brain and spinal injuries, which will require
round-the-clock care for the rest of their lives," said
Michael McConnell, Great Lakes regional director of the AFSC,
a peace group affiliated with the Quaker church.

The $720 million figure breaks down into $280 million a day
from Iraq war supplementary funding bills passed by Congress,
plus $440 million daily in incurred, but unpaid, long-term
costs. 

I pulled this off another website. In the time it takes most
people to read and digest this 1.5 mil. has been spent!

[helderheid]

50. They have a NEW goal of 2,000,000!!

We've reached 78% of our 2nd NEW goal of $2,000,000! ($1,571,031.76)

[TahitiNut]

51. " We've reached 78% of our 2nd NEW goal of $2,000,000! ($1,571,031.76)"

I love it! Amazing!

After more than 6 years of a regime that obsessive LOWERS its standards in terms of justice, morality, compassion, and inclusiveness ... MoveOn's supporters are RAISING the bar almost hourly!

[Cha]

54. Whoa Dudes!

This is our own little Condemning of Congress who Condemned us.

[SaveOurDemocracy]

55. @ 79% --------- >>> $1,583,880.00 !!

:patriot: :kick:

[DemReadingDU]

58. I donated this week

With all this influx of donations, I wonder what ads will appear next to show Congress the opinions of the NetRoots. Congress needs to wake up and pay attention!

[Fiendish Thingy]

61. $25 from me! n/t

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

63. Loverly!!! Make those corporacrats spend and spend and spend themselves,...

,...into an inescapable corner.

I LLLLLLOVE IT!!! "REAL" DEMOCRACY AT WORK!!! Let's bankrupt those effers!