Subject: the time is now
From: "Andrei Cherny " <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:41:29 -0400

John,

More than a hundred thousand phone calls.  More than ten thousand front doors visited.  Dozens of house parties.  And a whole bunch of emails asking you to contribute to our campaign.  But this is it: the last such request before next Tuesday’s election.

In six days, the voters of the Ninth District will get to make their decision.  We know that our message of real results for the middle class is resonating.  And we know this will be a very, very close election.  Tomorrow is the deadline for our last TV buy – and despite the incredible generosity of so many, we’re still about $15,000 short of where we need to be.

Will you help us maximize the number of voters who hear our message by making a contribution of $100, $50, or $20 today?

In a fair contest of ideas, we’d be running away with the election.  But this race is as close as it is because we’re facing off against the kinds of shadowy outside groups that are wreaking such havoc on our democracy.

I knew that when I put forward my far-reaching plan for ethics and campaign finance reform, I’d be stirring the hornets’ nest.  I was right.  So far, these groups have spent more than $200,000 to defeat our campaign.

But citizens coming together can overpower the big money of a few.  If you believe in our democracy, if you believe that Washington can work for the people again, and if you believe that I can make a real impact in Congress, please help me close the gap with the Super PACs.  Please help with a last pre-primary contribution today.

No one not in my shoes will ever understand how truly humbled I am by your support.  And how deeply I feel the incredible sense of responsibility to do right by those who have joined this campaign with their time, their dollars, and their votes.

I’m running for Congress because we have big challenges in our country – incomes declining for the middle class, the ladder of upward opportunity breaking down, trillions of dollars in debt with little to show for it.  If these challenges are to be met, it will happen on the floor of the House of Representatives where the big decisions America has had to make have always been hashed out – slavery and civil rights, the interstate highway system and the internet.  It’s a place where one person with courage and conscience can make a difference.

We’ve come to expect less and less of our leaders.  It's time we as citizens stood up to demand more.

Thank you for your help.  Please help more in the last hours before our Thursday deadline.

Best,

Andrei

P.S. We’re still about $15,000 short of our goal for Thursday’s TV buy. Will you help get us there with a contribution of $100, $50, or $25 today?

Paid for by Andrei for Arizona

P.O. Box 23838
Tempe, AZ 85285

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