Hello,

I know I already emailed this morning, but I wanted to check in again quickly.

Yesterday, I wired more money to the TV stations to keep our first ad campaign up against Chuck Grassley.

I’ll be honest: It was a very difficult decision. We don’t fully have the money in our budget to be going up on TV this early – but we also don’t really have a choice.

If Admiral Mike Franken is going to defeat Chuck Grassley and protect our Democratic Senate majority this November, we have to start introducing him to voters now. McConnell’s got tens of millions of dollars sitting in a Super PAC just waiting to attack us, and we have to beat him to the punch. There’s just no other way to win.

The polls show Mike can defeat Grassley and turn Iowa blue, but only if we get up on the air now. So I made the decision and wired the money, hoping I could count on grassroots donors like you to help us make up the $65,000 difference.

We’re just hours from our deadline, and we still need to raise another $5,205 to close this budget gap. If we fall short, we’ll be forced to scale back our buy – or worse, pull our ads off the air.

Please, can we count on you to chip in $5 or more right now – every dollar you can spare before our TV ad buy deadline – to keep our ads on the air, help Admiral Mike Franken defeat Chuck Grassley, and protect our Democratic majority in the Senate?

I don’t like taking risks like this, but it’s the only way Mike’s going to defeat Grassley. And for the future of our democracy, we must win.

Thank you for being a critical part of our campaign,

Julie

Julie Stauch
Campaign Manager
Mike Franken for Iowa