Coons’ fundraising email tries to cover too many bases
Senator Coons needs money to fight the horrible Tea Party, but also bipartisanship is AWESOME!!! (…or something, it made sense to the fundraising consultant.) Anyway, in addition to the philosophically hazy email, Coons is sitting on $2.9 million and has no GOP opponent, so I’ll probably sit this round out.
Dear Jason330,
We’ve all heard that the best defense is a good offense. That’s never been truer than this year.
You may have seen the numerous news reports that the Republicans now have about a 50/50 chance of retaking the Senate this fall. The Tea Party Patriots have formed a new Super PAC that, according to The Hill, plans “to engage heavily in Senate races.”If we want to keep the special interests out of Delaware, we’ve got to show our campaign is organized and energized. That means hitting our $15,000 February fundraising goal by midnight on Friday. Are you with us?
I certainly agree that the Republicans are horrible. What do you have in mind?
Click here to contribute $250 or more right away – before Friday’s deadline. Help protect our Democratic majority and keep our country moving forward.
While the nightly news tends to focus on the infighting and gridlock on Capitol Hill, there is a small, bipartisan group of us working together to get things done for families like yours.
Man oh man. A small group? Like you and Tom Carper perhaps? That counts as a bipartisn group, right? But are there any actual Republicans involved in this small group? I sure would like Senator Coons to NAME ONE of these great bipartisan minded GOP senators we hear about from time to time.
For my part, I’m fighting to protect the most vulnerable in our communities, pass critical new protections for victims of sexual assault in the military, restore and rebuild our country’s crumbling infrastructure, and increase the number of women and people of color in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
I can tell you, however, that if the Tea Party takes control of the Senate – as they’re working state by state to do – these and other common sense priorities will go right out the window.
Wait, what? We are back to the utterly horrible Teaparty? Hmmm… now I don’t know whether to be scared of the teabags or uplifted by the notion that there is an unnamed GOP Senator somewhere in Washington working with Senator Coons to “rebuild our country’s crumbling infrastructure.”
I’m not about to sit back and let that happen, but I’ve got to be prepared to beat the special interests determined to buy the Senate. Will you help us hit our $15,000 February goal with a contribution now?
Click here to donate $250 or more now. With more than a dozen ultraconservative Super PACs raising millions to take over the Senate, we can’t miss a single goal.
Thanks, as always, for your friendship and support.
Best—
Chris
I’ll pass. Hit me me up when you have a sincere talk with Carper about defending Democratic principles, or when the mythological sane Republican Senator works with you to do something…anything.
Or maybe, just stop lying about how great bipartisanship is. Go whole hog on how bad the teaparty is, and end it there. We all know the teaparty IS the GOP, so saying the GOP is sensible, but the teaparty is crazy simply makes no sense and undercuts your appeal.
If we want to stop the R’s from taking over the Senate, and if we individually have limited financial resources, why would we give to someone who has NO OPPONENT ON THE HORIZON?
Especially since Tom and Chris pursue bipartisanship even when the only possible result of achieving bipartisanship on anything is akin to surrender of Democratic Party principles. Which they’re both only too willing to do.
You know what? Just once I’d like to see Coons, Carper or Carney send out a fundraising letter something like this:
“Dear Fellow Democrat:
Let’s be honest here. I am likely to coast to reelection this fall. While I deeply appreciate your ongoing support, I’d encourage you to help us (a) retain the Senate majority, or (b) take back the House by contributing to the following campaigns.
Since money donated to my campaign is potentially money diverted from more competitive races, please don’t throw any more money at me this year. Please use it where it will do the most good. Here are just a few worthy candidates deserving your consideration:”
Just. Once.
“If we want to keep the special interests out of Delaware,” says Coons, D-Corporate Bar, speaking on behalf of Carper, D-Pharma, and Carney, D-Credit Cards.
El Somnambulo, if ever someone had an opening to help out team “D” in the way you suggest, it would be Chris Coons this year sitting on $2.9 million with NO GOP OPPONENT!
Needless to say, I’m not holding my breath.
It takes a lot of money to make sure you don’t have an opponent.
Thankfully, a good amount of that money does find its way to other races in contested states.
If that’s the case, Nuttingham, I’d rather decide where that money gets used rather than Carper, Carney, or Coons making those decisions for me.
Which is why I won’t donate to them.
El Som –
Democratic officials in DE aren’t usually big national team players. Many of them lived in fear of Obama whisking volunteers away to Pennsylvania to help carry an important swing state. Coons and Beau might be *the* exceptions, having done some extensive stumping for Democratic candidates all over the place (Beau mainly as an Obama surrogate in ’12). Would love to hear anecdotes to the contrary for the others, if they exist.