Eric —

There’s a crucial Senate election in Massachusetts tomorrow. We need your help to win it.

Look, we know the Senate health care reform bill isn’t exactly what was advertised.  There’s no public option.  There’s no national insurance exchange, only state ones.  Sure, we made pre-existing conditions irrelevant, but that’s gonna cause premiums to double without the national exchange.  And, yes, insurance will be mandatory — we’ll punish you with a fine if you don’t buy it.  I understand that these things are sort of the opposite of what the President said during the campaign.  But you know what?  He didn’t have any idea what he was talking about back then.  He does now because he’s President and he’s got all these advisors, and they say this is the best we’re gonna get.  Even with our majority in the House and our supermajority in the Senate.

Anyway, we have a problem.  This whole thing is about to become undone because the woman running to replace Ted Kennedy didn’t bother to start campaigning until about a week ago.  It also turns out that maybe she’s not the best candidate, since Democrats in Massachusetts don’t seem to like her very much and she said on the radio that Curt Schilling was a Yankee fan.  Ho boy.  Now there’s a Republican poised to steal that seat and he’s rolling in GOP cash because he promised to vote against our reform package.  This guy is a typical right wing crazy except when he isn’t.  Like, he hates taxes but loves the environment.  He’s also pro-choice, that shifty bastard.  You may say this makes him a moderate, but I say he’s an extreme moderate.  Extreme like those other Tea Party gun nuts.  Also, he posed naked in a magazine once, but you couldn’t see his thing.

We can’t do this without you.  Please send us money so we can salvage the election of an unenthusiastic party hack to prevent the failure of a deeply flawed reform bill that looks nothing like we said it would.

Thanks,

Mitch

Mitch Stewart
Director
Organizing for America