My friends,

What a week this has been for our campaign to send Thom Tillis packing and help flip the U.S. Senate!

Along with our continuing work to inspire and organize North Carolina's young voters, elders, voters of color and white voters, and progressives and moderates to coalesce around my bid to become North Carolina's first African-American U.S. Senator, this week we also began reaching out to concerned Americans nationwide to explain the importance of their support too for my candidacy. Because while it's still true, as Tip O'Neill once said, that "all politics is local," today more than ever all politics is also national. To save our democracy, concerned citizens nationwide must join together to support every Democratic candidate who, like myself, is best positioned to flip a U.S. Senate seat.

Our outreach to America this week began with a wonderful profile of my candidacy published at Daily Kos, America's leading online progressive community, titled "In North Carolina, an inspiring Black woman Senate candidate takes the lead" (dailykos.com/stories/2019/12/16/1906068/-In-North-Carolina-an-inspiring-Black-woman-Senate-candidate-takes-the-lead).

Beginning with my family's farming heritage, the article goes on to make the case for how my life experience "seems custom-made to bridge the demographic and social divides that have for too long fractured North Carolina’s electorate." If you haven't read it yet, by all means do.

We also reached out to the wider world via my interview on Pacifica Radio's nationally syndicated progressive radio program, BradCast, where I explained in depth the election security threat North Carolina's voters face at the hands of voting machine vendor ES&S, and why I'm fighting for the state to offer hand-marked paper ballots to voters in all 100 of NC's counties. You can listen online at soundcloud.com/progressive-voices/the-bradcast-12-16-2019 (my segment begins at the 36:00 minute mark).

I also did my share this week to support the nationwide "Nobody Is Above The Law" rallies and marches that I'm sure you've read about. I was deeply honored to give the kick-off speech at Raleigh's well-attended rally (one of nearly 500 across the nation). We'll be posting the video of my speech on my campaign web site (EricaForUS.com) later this week, and I look forward to reading your responses to it on social media.

As you can see, I'm running hard for all of us. And I need to ask you to work hard to help me. If you haven't contributed to my campaign recently, won't you please do so now by visiting my ActBlue Donate page (ericaforus.com/make-your-donation)? And please spread the word among your friends, neighbors, and associates, and encourage them to donate too. Our critical end-of-year FEC reporting deadline is now right around the corner, and every donor's contribution sends a powerful message that my grassroots campaign is powered by "People, Not PACs" (unlike my opponent's).

Thank you so very much for supporting me,

Erica

North Carolina state Senator Erica Smith,
running for the Democratic nomination to unseat Republican U.S. Senator Thom Tillis

 

 

 

 

 


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