Subject: Re: update
From: "Comer, Scott" <[email-masked]>
To: "Tobias, Andy" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 16:28:47 -0700

I was an art history major, so thank you for the explanation of IRR!

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On May 17, 2016, at 7:12 PM, Andrew Tobias <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:

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-confirmed-n575661> SECRETARY OF THE ARMY.

The list of accomplishments<http://www.equalitygiving.org/Accomplishments-by-the-Administration-and-Congress-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