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The netroots July 4th fundraiser to help Hillary Clinton retire campaign debt has been a huge success. Just Say No Deal coalition spokesperson, Will Bowers Bower, announced in an interview yesterday on FOX News that fund raising estimates ranged from a conservative $6 million to as much as $10 million within one week. Will also stated that the coalition has grown to 2.5 million members with over 230 blogs and websites. That’s impressive for a coalition that formed just 23 days ago. Hear what Will has to say:
Yesterday, the coalition kicked off a 48 hour fund raising push to dump the “Star” bucks and donate to Hillary instead. Let’s do it. Skip another latte, dig deep into your pockets and pocketbooks, and drop some cash on Hillary.
For those of you who can afford a bit more, check out this new winning tee from Clinton’s Project T-shirt contest.
The new, limited edition “This One Is For You” T-shirts are $50 with proceeds going to help retire Hillary’s campaign debt. Get your t-shirts while supplies last. You can buy the T-shirt from Hillary’s website. Give it up for Hillary just one more time. All it takes is another $5, $10, or even $50 to free Hillary from the DNC and campaign debt.
Crossposted at Alegre’s Corner.
UPDATE 1: Let’s add Hillbuzz to the Hillary-thon and have some fun. Hillbuzz devised a clever little carnival to raise money for Hillary. Check out the pics on the site. I am especially fond of Nancy’s.
Donate $5.00 = Harry Reid gets a big kick in his farty pants!
Donate $10.00 = Donna Brazile gets dunked in the tank!
Donate $15.00 = Nancy Pelosi gets a makeover!
Donate $20.00 = Howard Dean gets screamed at!
Donate $100.00 = Obama gets a great big, red, white and blue Belgian waffle…right in his face!
UPDATE 2: On Friday, we raised a total of $623.52 at Alegre’s Corner, which includes $300 in t-shirt sales. Thank you to everyone who has donated to Hillary’s campaign. A special thank you to the following people who donated again on Friday:
$125 Campskunk $75 + 1 t-shirt
$100 pan230 2 t-shirts
$75 Dave $25 + 1 t-shirt
70.08 Notyoursweetie $20.08 + 1 t-shirt
$50 Coyote Creek
$50 Lt. Ripley
$50 Ciardha
$50 pagerd 1 t-shirt
$25 grlpatriot
$13.44 LSekhmet
$10 jen
$5 ProudMilitaryMom
UPDATE 3: For clarification, I use the term “PUMA” in a broad sense as a description, not a group. I believe that any Democrat not supporting Obama as the nominee of the Democrat party is a PUMA. I was crediting the whole coalition, not a single “PUMA” group. I want to thank StandsOnPrinciple for his/her comment below, providing some background on the July 4th/$20.08 “Independence Day” Retire the Debt initiative that JSND promoted. I want to credit Paula Abeles’ group and GeekLove for their efforts on behalf of the coalition. It is also important to note that other groups across the pro-Hillarysphere had their own debt drives as well, even though it was the July 4th/$20.08 drive that JSND chose to promote.
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grlpatriot
July 11th, 2008 at 5:02 PM
Contribution Details
Date: July 11, 2008 4:53 PM EDT
Amount: $25.00
Lt. Ripley
July 11th, 2008 at 5:27 PM
Skip another latte, mocha frappuccino (no whip), blueberry muffin (or two) and give a buck back to Hill. I am so excited that efforts to retire Hillary’s debt have been so successful. Support for her is definitely coalescing and producing $$$ results where it counts.
These numbers show that with everyone and their friends and family chipping in as little as $5, we can retire her debt and leverage her for the Denver Convention in August. Hillary stood up for us, let’s stand up for her now. Hill, this cup’s for you!
Lt. Ripley
July 11th, 2008 at 5:57 PM
Contribution Details
Date: July 11, 2008 5:48 PM EDT
Amount: $50.00
Let’s keep the contributions going!
Elizabeth
July 16th, 2008 at 12:25 PM
Just ordered the shirt — thank you so much for your enthusiasm and for making me feel less alone!
Best
grlpatriot
July 16th, 2008 at 5:43 PM
Great, Elizabeth! You are most definitely not alone. More and more people who are just saying “no deal” to Obama are speaking out. The party doesn’t have a nominee until the convention. There is still time for the super delegates to dump the chump and nominate Hillary!
conchita sadler
July 17th, 2008 at 7:36 PM
i have given up the democratic party… but if we can get hillary nominated in the convention… that would be wonderful … i would like to contribute no matter how small .. where do i have to address it to
STILL HOPING…
grlpatriot
July 17th, 2008 at 10:22 PM
Conchita, every little bit helps. You can donate online at Hillary Clinton’s website.
http://www.hillaryclinton.com
If you want to mail a contribution, click the link below, print the form, then mail it to the address listed on the form.
https://contribute.hillarycampaign2008.com/mail.html
Gina
July 27th, 2008 at 5:30 PM
THE PUMAS ARE TOTALLY JUSTIFIED …
1. Contrary to what Obamabots say …
Obama and Hillary were in a dead heat,
when the DNC pressured Hillary into not
only conceding, but campaigning for Obama.
2. Obama is once again in a dead heat, but now
with McCain, even though Obamabots act like
Obama has already won (like they did in the
primaries against Hillary). So, this means that
half of the Democrats, and all the Republicans
(3/4 of America) dIdn’t want Obama. Plus, he
didn’t even win the popular vote, and refused a
revote in Michigan and Florida.
3. Obama has the thinnest resume in politics, and
he won state legislature and Senator by
disqualifications of his opponents, not by earned
experience, or votes.
4. Obama’s one claim to fame is being a community
organizer, where he boasts of registering voters.
Then he took their votes away from them, by
disqualifying his opponents on technicalities, prior
to the election.
5. Obama’s mentor of 20 years, was an anti-American
racist … not to mention other unsavory associations.
6. Obama is simply buying the election, since he’s
good at fund raising … hardly a qualification to be
President of the United States.
7. The media never vetted Obama, and they are
giving him a free ride, plus more than twice the
print and air time as McCain, as they did against
Hillary.
8. 90% of blacks are voting for Obama, because he is
black, while the campaign gained ground by
accusing most opponents of racism.
9. Obamabots were, and are extremely nasty and sarcastic
towards Hillary supporters, as well as McCain supporters.
10. Pumas should be applauded for putting country before party …
especially a party that did not represent them, and a party
which highjacked the nomination for Obama.
Lt. Ripley
July 27th, 2008 at 11:21 PM
Will Bower said that Hillary’s debt has been paid off. Woohoo! I think he said PUMAs raised anywhere from $6 – 10 MILLION through the July 4th and 5Bucks fund raising efforts.
grlpatriot
July 28th, 2008 at 12:47 PM
@ Gina, PUMAs are totally justified!
Add to your list the sexism and misogyny directed at Hillary and her supporters coming from the media and Team Obama that the Democratic Party leadership did nothing about.