A vote for Peter Goldmark…
Peter Goldmark posted a diary on Daily Ko’s today. If you live in the 5th, and don’t know the name (or the candidate) read on…
A vote for Peter Goldmark is a vote for:
* a leader who listens to voters, speaks out for their interests, thinks independently,
* a leader who asks tough questions and faces tough issues head-on,
* a leader who has run an successful business and ranch,
* a leader who knows the challenges of running a family farm and making ends meet.
* a leader with integrity and ethics who will work hard for the Fifth District.Just like working at the ranch, there are always more campaign tasks than hours in the day, but we’re making progress every day. I anticipate having positive, perhaps even surprising fundraising numbers to report on August 30. Our second television ad is running on Spokane and district television. An article in Spokane’s weekly Inlander has given us some good local exposure. We’ve even had some national attention with an article in Roll Call and a radio interview on a San Francisco program about
“How to unseat an incumbent.” I hope that’s a good sign of things to come.
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Our campaign raised $210,000 in the second quarter ending June 30. In the two months since that time, we have raised about $230,000. We are on track to reach our goal of $1 million. In our media market, that amount should be enough to get our message out. And our polling results show that when we get our message out–we win.
It is as simple as that. Republicans are out of touch with all but their most extreme base… of that… headway is being made.
White evangelicals have become such a crucial part of the GOP base that many political observers now see them as the key to Republican victories at the polls. Karl Rove certainly seems to agree. He left his policy position at the White House last month partly to repair relationships with conservative evangelical leaders who are disappointed that the president they helped elect twice has given them nothing (two Supreme Court justices aside) in return. When these old-guard members of the Christian right supported Bush in 2000, they thought they would get a president who would fight tirelessly to outlaw sexual immorality.
But Rove is also reportedly worried about another group of evangelicals: the nearly 40 percent who identify themselves as politically moderate and who are just as likely to get energized about aids in Africa or melting ice caps as partial-birth abortion and lesbian couples in Massachusetts. These evangelicals have found the White House even less open to their concerns than their more conservative brethren have.
Not to rail on evangelicals at all, but more to illustrate the point that Eastern Washington moderate voters can look to a candidate like Peter Goldmark and be confident he will represent them well.
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