Russ Feingold's 'Cheddarbomb': Fundraising Campaign Brings In Nearly $500,000 In One Day

[WI_DEM]

A clever fundraising campaign by Sen. Russ Feingold's (D-Wis.) campaign has netted $435,971 from more than 15,000 donors in just one day, aided by an aggressive e-mail solicitation push by several other senators. The campaign is set to reveal the numbers in an e-mail to supporters Thursday evening.

"My opponent multimillionaire Ron Johnson thinks his checkbook can decide this election. He's so confident about winning that he's already pledged to spend upward of $15 million of his own fortune, or 'all of it,' to win," read the e-mail sent out by the Feingold campaign on Wednesday. "Today, September 15, my campaign is launching our newest effort: '15 for 15 Cheddarbomb.' We'll match Ron Johnson's $15 million with the donations of 15,000 grassroots donors. This is our first-ever 'moneybomb' or as we call it in Wisconsin -- a 'Cheddarbomb.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/16/russ-feingolds-cheddarbomb-fundraising-campaign_n_720072.html

[Kdillard]

1. Good hopefully he will be able to put up a fight.

[ProSense]

2. Excellent. n/t

[Phx_Dem]

3. Good for him. Go Russ!

[damntexdem]

4. I guess he finds it to be fine gold.

[boomerbust]

5. Here in Wisco

Johnson signs everywhere. 0 Feingold signs.

[Hippo_Tron]

6. The amount of signs a candidate has is an indicator of how many signs they have

The only reason campaigns even have signs is to excite people who are under the false impression that signs = support. Signs don't convince people to vote and it's not like Russ is lacking in name recognition.

[catgirl]

7. Lets keep it up

Russ needs money to compete in this one. His opponent is spending millions and winning right now.
We can't afford to lose Russ.

[dionysus]

8. go Russ!