Obey's Special Interest Friends
According to www.tray.com, since 1980, Dave Obey has raised nearly $8.9 million to hold on to his seat against some very qualified challengers like Kevin Hermening, Scott West, Sean Cronin and now Nick Reid. Special interest groups have donated nearly $5 million of that total. While we don't have the lobbyist total from that far back, if recent history is any indication, tack on close to another $1 million from lobbyists.
If that isn't a bought and paid for Congressman for special interest groups, we don't know what is. We feel particularly crummy that we haven't done more to push back, particularly when this district is so much more center-right than our far left liberal Congressman.
At the same time, we are excited to note that Nick Reid raised more money from people in Wisconsin in the 2nd Quarter of 2006 than did Dave Obey. That's right, more people in Wisconsin were contributing to Reid the last three months than to any other candidate in the 7th District.
We realize defeating Dave Obey seems like a daunting task. However, Nick Reid is making a real charge at this race, but he needs our help. If you can contribute, you should. If you can volunteer, you should. If you can help at all, you should.
Here's Nick's website to learn more about how you can help.
Many of us remember how close Scott West came in 1994 to winning this seat. He had just $96,000 to work with and virtually no help from the national party. Many of us wished we had done just a little more to push Scott over the top. Let's not wake up on November 8th and feel the same way again.
If that isn't a bought and paid for Congressman for special interest groups, we don't know what is. We feel particularly crummy that we haven't done more to push back, particularly when this district is so much more center-right than our far left liberal Congressman.
At the same time, we are excited to note that Nick Reid raised more money from people in Wisconsin in the 2nd Quarter of 2006 than did Dave Obey. That's right, more people in Wisconsin were contributing to Reid the last three months than to any other candidate in the 7th District.
We realize defeating Dave Obey seems like a daunting task. However, Nick Reid is making a real charge at this race, but he needs our help. If you can contribute, you should. If you can volunteer, you should. If you can help at all, you should.
Here's Nick's website to learn more about how you can help.
Many of us remember how close Scott West came in 1994 to winning this seat. He had just $96,000 to work with and virtually no help from the national party. Many of us wished we had done just a little more to push Scott over the top. Let's not wake up on November 8th and feel the same way again.
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