John,
The system is rigged. We all know it. The only people who can afford to run for Senate full-time are millionaires like my opponent, Republican Deb Fischer.
That’s why they’re the only people who ever win. It’s why the Senate is just another country club full of Ivy League graduates, former business execs, and trust fund babies.
Working people like me, we can’t afford to give up our jobs to run for office. During this campaign, I’ve been working 40, 60, sometimes 90 hours a week as a steamfitter just to pay our bills and put food on the table. How’s anybody with a real job supposed to campaign and win when your opponent is wealthy enough to not work at all?
That’s why I announced that I am taking a leave from my job as a steamfitter to campaign full-time for the U.S. Senate and keep up our momentum.
And yes, that means I’m going to need to take a salary from our campaign. Not a big one. Just enough to replace the $48,000 I got paid last year and the cost of health care for me and my family.
Politics shouldn’t only be for the rich, and this is the only way we can change that.
Two news polls show me neck-and-neck with my opponent, Republican Deb Fischer – and in one, I am LEADING her by 2 points. With support from grassroots donors like you, we even out-raised her 2-to-1 during the last FEC reporting period. But she still has $2.3 million more than us because of her corporate PAC friends.
Together, we are charting the path for how a blue collar, union worker can run for U.S. Senate – and win. But I need grassroots donors like you to chip in to my campaign right now if we’re going to defeat Republican Deb Fischer and flip this Senate seat:
Please use the links in this email to start a monthly donation through ActBlue:
I’m not rich. I’m not trying to become rich. I’m running for Senate because working people like me deserve a seat at the table in Washington and someone who will fight for us day in and day out.
Your support – of any amount – means more to me than you will ever know.
Thank you,
Dan Osborn
