Subject: A perfectly reasonable request
From: "Al Franken" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 15:10:35 +0000

"The political network overseen by the conservative billionaires Charles G. and David H. Koch plans to spend close to $900 million on the 2016 campaign..." -New York Times, 1/26/15

Dear Hunter,

The Koch brothers have announced they're going to spend almost a billion dollars on the 2016 elections. I've done the math, and if we want to keep pace with the Koch brothers' right-wing efforts, all we have to do is raise $38.6 million per month, every month, from now until November 2016. 

Can you chip in $5O,OOO, $1OO,OOO, even $1,OOO,OOO before midnight TONIGHT? If all of our grassroots supporters can pony up a mere $25 grand, we'll blow past our goal in no time!

Of course you can't. First off, that's illegal. And second, middle class families don't generally have $5O,OOO to give away. 

We're not going to be able to go dollar-for-dollar with the billionaire Koch brothers and, to tell you the truth, we don't have to. We just need to build a strong grassroots team that can fight back. We can do that $5 and $10 at a time, but we have to hit our monthly goals. Can you give $5 and help us reach our actual monthly goal of $25,000 right now?

https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/afe150129?express_lane=true&amp;amount=&amp;refcode=afe150129_m_&amp;refcode2=2672953

Our elections are swamped with outside money, giving special interests a megaphone they've used to shout over the voices of middle class families.

The Koch brothers' network alone spent more than $100 million in the 2014 elections, and all that cash helped give them and their allies control of the Senate. In 2016, the Kochs are going to turn the same trick, only with their eyes on the White House. too.

We can't wait to start fighting back against nearly a billion dollars in Koch cash. Help us reach our grassroots goal with a $5 contribution.

https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/afe150129?express_lane=true&amp;amount=&amp;refcode=afe150129_m_&amp;refcode2=2672953

Thanks.

Al

P.S. Just another reminder that our deadline is midnight TONIGHT. Can you help us with $5 or $10 right now?

https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/afe150129?express_lane=true&amp;amount=&amp;refcode=afe150129_m_&amp;refcode2=2672953

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