Subject: update 2
From: Shrub Shrub <[email-masked]>
To: 'Andrew Tobias' <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 17:47:33 -0400

And now Donald has just released his list
<http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/us/politics/donald-trump-supreme-court
-nominees.html>  of potential Supreme Court picks . . . 

<< Mr. Trump's selections consisted of six federal appeals court judges
appointed by President George W. Bush and five state supreme court justices
appointed by Republican governors. All are white, and eight of the 11 are
men. They include several judges who are regular favorites of conservative
legal scholars >>

. . . driving home my point from yesterday:

We are at a momentous crossroads.  

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 

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 that's more than we'll be left with if
the next president starts a trade war that leads to a global depression that
leads to a world war as depressions sometimes do.

If you amortize that 1% over the next 30 years of a progressive Supreme
Court, it's better than a 30% APR savings account.  (You were a comp lit
major?  APR stands for "A Phenomenal Return.")

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

At any membership level, you'll be paid up for the dinner.  But feeding you
is 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!  (And to all of you who did respond yesterday - it was a good day.)

Andy