They said we had no chance.
They said I’d pissed off too many powerful people along the way. They said we couldn’t win without corporate PAC money, fancy galas, and backroom deals with billionaires. They said I should go back to the woods.
All that time, the working class knew something the elite establishment didn’t. There are more of us than there are of them. And we’re rising – as a political revolution, and in the polls too.
But I’m not going to sugarcoat what’s at stake in these final 10 days: my opponents have more money than we do – a lot more. They’ve been raising it the way politicians always have. From corporations, from DC rolodexes of Big Money donors, and from the same powerful interests that have been calling the shots in this state and this country for decades.
Our campaign is different. More than 12,500 grassroots donors from every corner of this state and even beyond have chipped in, because they’re tired of the broken status quo and they want to see some real change from their government.
That’s who I’m running for, and who I’m powered by: the grassroots. I’m damn proud of it.
May has been an incredibly strong month for this campaign, but with ten days left to Election Day and a real money gap to close, I don’t want to leave anything to chance. Every dollar we raise goes toward reaching more voters before June 9th – and all the polling is clear that when voters hear our message, we take the lead. Right now we’re TIED for first place, so this really matters.
We set a goal of reaching 5,000 grassroots donors before the end of May to show the strength of our movement and what’s possible when we band together. Will you chip in whatever you can before midnight tomorrow?
