Subject: update
From: Andrew Tobias <[email-masked]>
To: 'Andrew Tobias' <[email-masked]>
Cc: "'Comer, Scott'" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 19:12:02 -0400

When I started haranguing many of you for money gays could not serve openly
in the military.  

Today, we can not only serve, one of us is the newly confirmed
<http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/first-openly-gay-army-secretary-confirm
ed-n575661>  SECRETARY OF THE ARMY.

The list of accomplishments
<http://www.equalitygiving.org/Accomplishments-by-the-Administration-and-Con
gress-on-LGBT-Equality>  I used to keep seems almost quaint now.  

(Add to it little things like marriage equality and clear support for
transgender rights and dignity.)

So here we are at another momentous crossroads.  I think it's clear it
matters who runs the world, who appoints the judges, who holds the veto pen.

And I am inviting you to our 17th annual June LGBT dinner - which like last
year's will probably be held in September - and I'm asking that you do
something heroic, RIGHT NOW, because . . .

(a)    the DNC has core functions to perform . . . on which ALL our
candidates rely, not just those running for President . . . 

(b)    we lack the resources to perform them 

(One of those functions is the Convention.  The basic infrastructure of it
only the DNC, by law, can pay for, which never used to be a problem - Uncle
Sam underwrote it for both parties, to the tune of something north of $15
million each.  This time, in its infinite wisdom, Congress zeroed out that
funding.)

It will all work out, and if we all step up, we will win.  

My ask, as you know, is that each of us do 1% of his or her net worth - like
a lobster claw, it will grow back in a few months - which may seem greedy,
but it still leaves you with 99%, and if you amortize that 1% over the next
30 years of a progressive Supreme Court, it beats even Berkshire Hathaway in
its IRR.  (You were a fine arts major?  IRR stands for "Incredible Rate of
Return.")

Please:  https://my.democrats.org/page/contribute/lgbtlc .

At any membership level, you'll be paid up for the dinner.  But feeding you
in not really the point. 

We've seen what 8 years of the wrong leadership can do - George W. Bush --
sandwiched between 8 years each of what the right leadership can do - Bill
Clinton and Barack Obama.  I think you agree that a Trump win would be
catastrophic.  Let's each invest 1% and not have to find out.

Thanks!

Andy