Folks,

I want to spend every moment I possibly can having conversations with constituents and researching the most pressing issues facing our country and our communities.

Unfortunately, there’s this thing called Citizens United -- which is part of the reason why our elections are so incredibly expensive (and why I have to send emails like these asking for $5 or more so that we can hit our campaign’s mid-month goal).

National Republicans determined to take back the House in 2022 are going to target battleground seats like this one first, and they have millions in dark money on their side. So if I’m going to compete and defend my seat, my team pushes me to do this thing called call time.

And I’ll be brutally honest with you: It sucks.

I don’t want to be on the phone trying to fundraise when I could be having critical conversations with parents in Darien and engineers in Lombard about what steps our country needs to take to address the climate crisis instead.

That’s why I’m reaching out to you -- we’re halfway through the month, but we’re not even close to halfway to reaching our fundraising goal for December.

If each of you donated $5 or more to this email, my team would have our mid-month goal squared away and I could fully devote my energy to my work in Congress (and NOT have to spend valuable time on the phone fundraising!).

Thank you,

Sean