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Friend,

We’re right around the corner from our important Federal Election Commission (FEC) deadline: On September 30th, we will close the books on the third fundraising quarter of the year, and our first since a serious GOP contender entered the race. After this deadline, all of our contributions will be compiled into a public report that will be used to gauge the strength of our campaign.

If you already know how important these deadlines are, please use this link to make a contribution to our campaign today:

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Given that your inbox is likely full of emails from campaigns like mine ringing the alarm bells, I thought I’d throw in a bit of history to this much ballyhooed event of the FEC deadline.

Each year, candidates running for federal office face four official quarterly fundraising deadlines – March 31, June 30, September 30, and December 31. After these deadlines pass, we are legally required to report how much money we’ve raised and the number of donations we receive. You have to file your report within 15 days after the deadline.

These deadlines were put into law in 1974 by the FEC Act. This was driven by reports of serious financial abuses in the 1972 presidential campaign. The FEC Act created limits for how much individuals could contribute to a campaign and established the Federal Election Commission, which began operating in 1975. Since then, candidates running for federal office have to report what they raised, how much they spent, and how many individual donations they received four times a year.

Unlike many in politics, I won’t give you a made-up emergency or try to convince you that the sky is falling with these deadlines. But these quarterly reports do set the tone for what this campaign can accomplish in the coming months. Friends and competitors alike watch these numbers and make critical decisions for the road ahead.

So this is why I ask, and where it comes from. If you’d like to help us knock this FEC deadline out of the park, please consider chipping in below. The sky will NOT fall if you don’t contribute, the country will NOT descend into chaos – but you WILL help us compete in one of the country’s most competitive Senate races! And isn’t that worth it?

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Thank you,

Elissa
 


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