The Insurgent Political Campaign

Net Fundraising and Open Source Commercial=over $440K Online

Paul Hackett needs your support in the Special Congressional Election in the Ohio 2nd. Today we have a Blogsphere wide push for fundraising as he is just two weeks away from his election. As an Iraq Veteran he is a perfect candidate. [Update] He is over $440K total as of 8.1.05.

But better yet is this Open Source Commericial, created by Volunteers, that shows what non-professional media can do for a campaign. This could be YOUR campaign too.
Here's the story...
=================

Paul Hackett has blown through his goal of $55,000 in fundraising one day from the Blogsphere and is over $70,000 at 3:30pm Central Time! Track his progress at SSP.

We need your support to help put him over the top of $100,000. What will your money be spent on? Well you saw his first commercial yesterday...here's his second commerical today. (We are using the photo from his first commerical...)

Quicktime

Dig out those wallets...even the thin one's...just like I did...and make a difference today!

See How a Simple Image can Generate Publicity

Today, in about 15 minutes, the gentlemen at Swing State Project created a new Karl Rove T-Shirt that:
A: Tells the truth
B: If it was a local story it would generate news
C: Gets the volunteers motivated to wear them
D: How much did it cost to get it designed and ready? NOTHING!

Today's Broadcast by mp3 or RSS
or Stream it here.

This is the Ultimate Insurgent Tactic...and here's the story from The Political Dogfight, Swing State Project and DailyKos:

Headline:
Karl Rove's own THE ADMISSION T-Shirt!

From the Good Folks at Swing State Project we have THE ULTIMATE TRUTH t-shirt in Karl Roves own words and image.

You can purchase it from CafePress here. For the Fashionistas in the crowd it comes in many styles and colors.

While many get caught up in the too many legalisms, the fact remains that Karl Rove disclosed a CIA source which violates, at minimum his own WH Senior Staff Non-Disclosure Agreement. There multiple other acts and laws that may apply. John Dean, who has enough experience in WH operations to get my attention, is tracking those down. But I love the fact these words come from his mouth! Come Troops...use the words in a non-verbal fashion by simply wearing them around town. More visiblity is better!

Practical Politics, A Quest: Part 2

Here's' more Practical Politics, Part 2, that I think we need to be thinking about...and specifically two ideas for the Wes Clark gathering of former Volunteers in Little Rock this weekend. I think these are ideas are valuable and have the potential for long-term impact.

This post was intended for Thursday but got delayed for technical reasons.

Here you will find two ways of listening to the broadcast.
A. As usual you can download to your mp3 player.
B  If you using Internet Exploer as your browser you will see Flash Streaming controls beneath this explanation.
C. If you are using FireFox, like me, you can download the broadcast to your player as usual or switch to Internet Explorer and stream the audio from there.
(Too damn complicated and that's why there's been a delay!)

At any rate here's:
Practical Politics, A Quest: Part 2 (10 mins)