Subject: We send a lot of emails - here's why
From: "Stephanie Cutter, BarackObama.com" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:39:30 -0400

Hunter --

Ever wonder why we send you so many emails asking for 
grassroots donations? I know it's a lot -- but let me describe 
for you what the alternative looks like:

We just learned that Mitt Romney collected an astounding 
$9 million from lobbyists during the last fundraising 
quarter, including lobbyists for pharmaceutical companies, 
big oil, and one of Switzerland's largest banks.

From the day that Barack Obama decided to run for president 
in 2007, he has refused to accept campaign contributions from 
special-interest PACs and Washington lobbyists. Instead, he 
relies on you to build this campaign -- and is accountable only 
to you.

We're in a dead heat with Romney and there's very little time left. 
Help make sure ordinary folks decide this election -- not big banks 
and oil companies.

As a 2008 supporter, you know what it takes to be part of a grassroots 
campaign that wins.

Please make a donation of $25 or more to re-elect Barack Obama today:

https://donate.barackobama.com/19-Days

When we get into talk of lobbyists, PACs, and super PACs, it's 
easy to just want to tune out and give up completely on what 
feels like a hopelessly broken political process.

But here's why we can't: Mitt Romney not only accepts big checks 
from these lobbyists, but as president he'd hire those same lobbyists 
in top-level positions. A report just this week said: "Industry insiders 
believe that Mitt Romney will unshackle the revolving door and give 
lobbyists a shot at the government jobs their Democratic counterparts 
have been denied for the past four years."

We could get the head of the junk food industry as the Secretary 
of Health and Human Services. An oil executive as the head of 
the Environmental Protection Agency.

I'm damn proud of the fact that President Obama implemented 
the strictest rules ever to close the revolving door between 
government and special interests and restrict the 
money-for-influence machine that too often dominates 
Washington.

It was the right thing to do -- and unless we do what we need to 
do these next 19 days, we'll see a return to the same old way of 
doing business.

This year's election is a test of the idea that ordinary people can 
still be the most powerful voice in our democracy. We've come 
too far to fail now.

We're counting on 2008 supporters like you to step up again. 
Please make a donation to this truly grassroots campaign today:

https://donate.barackobama.com/19-Days

Thanks,

Stephanie

Stephanie Cutter
Deputy Campaign Manager
Obama for America

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