Subject: [big campaign] Claiming a major scalp in the rather red state
From: Aniello Alioto <[email-masked]>
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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:00:37 -0500
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Friends - when we toyed with expanding into traditionally red states, this
is the kind of success we had in mind. Please read below and please enjoy
knowing that we building capacity in both unexpected states and also
setting up the long game to forment long term progressive success in the
reddest of red states.

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From: Bryan Long, Better Georgia <[email-masked]>

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What does a progressive win in Georgia look like?

Well, here’s how *Rachel Maddow* describes the downfall of former Senate
Majority Leader Chip Rogers after Better Georgia leaked the video of his
Pres. Obama mind-control meeting at the Gold Dome:

“The Republican Senate Majority Leader did convene that meeting of Georgia
Republican senators to talk about Pres. Obama’s mind control plot to take
over America and then *Better Georgia shot video* of it and then that video
ended up on the local news with the amazing graphics and then it ended up
in the Atlanta Journal Constitution and in other Georgia newspapers. And
then it started to get national news in Mother Jones, Huffington Post and
elsewhere. *And then, then, interestingly it was the end of that Republican
Majority Leader in the state senate*. Yeah, he stepped down.”

It’s worth watching the full
video<http://bettergeorgia.pnstate.org/site/R?i=9A7Uv_idj4iiKLAkWHMvfA>
:

<http://bettergeorgia.pnstate.org/site/R?i=kXS7p_SuZhAK_y43P3KXVQ>
*Click to watch Better Georgia on Rachel
Maddow<http://bettergeorgia.pnstate.org/site/R?i=p3_YVRNVMfoTJRw-WaSnxA>
*.

While it’s true that Sen. Rogers had *plenty* of problems heading into the
GOP caucus elections, it’s also true that he kept *fighting for his
job*until 72 hours after our video went public.

He quit after our video aired on
WSB<http://bettergeorgia.pnstate.org/site/R?i=plXMAoyPWZ-teX_zakzZBA>,
CBS <http://bettergeorgia.pnstate.org/site/R?i=-T6HKQ1okJHgSS74NvdNsg>,
NBC<http://bettergeorgia.pnstate.org/site/R?i=v_1bNNPucyd-BIWnvY8aXQ>and
dominated <http://bettergeorgia.pnstate.org/site/R?i=zUqo9pXgnM4Jke6QrQamIg>the
local <http://bettergeorgia.pnstate.org/site/R?i=hClGtwFoYlaFFVbZf-BGjQ>
news <http://bettergeorgia.pnstate.org/site/R?i=nf17FsuGS18M3SKJOcl-hQ>
cycle <http://bettergeorgia.pnstate.org/site/R?i=4G_5htBh3aW0P3fZ9Punyg>leading
into the caucus election. Articles about the video were posted on
Gawker <http://bettergeorgia.pnstate.org/site/R?i=AKrXmbBrlprOuCypL-CFYA>,
Salon <http://bettergeorgia.pnstate.org/site/R?i=YkOtEGTGOL2LrW8Vahuw8A>,
Slate <http://bettergeorgia.pnstate.org/site/R?i=dF8ZX-2eP1pSgim_gRfW7g>, The
Daily Beast<http://bettergeorgia.pnstate.org/site/R?i=gAaIFFPLmOXvq19zAD7-JA>and
Mother
Jones <http://bettergeorgia.pnstate.org/site/R?i=MG0UuLegf4QI3jNjJKMcTg>.
He was forced to respond to the national attention but he *totally
quit*because he wanted to spend more time with his family.

Political journalist Jim Galloway wrote about Better Georgia’s role filming
and releasing the video in the print edition of Sunday’s Atlanta
Journal-Constitution<http://bettergeorgia.pnstate.org/site/R?i=Z3T-1-SvTZkP9vNGzu9TAA>
:

“If Democrats are a vanquished army, then Better Georgia and its associates
are the guerrilla force that has been left behind to harass Republicans.”

 *With our small “guerilla force” we unseated Sen. Chip Rogers from his
post as Senate Majority Leader.*

While serving as Majority Leader, Sen. Rogers led as Georgia cut billions
of dollars from public education and actively worked to stop road and
transit improvements.

Sen. Rogers is still in the senate and will still fight against sustainable
development, smart growth and pretty much every environmental issue that
progressive voters value.

Simply forcing Sen. Rogers to step down as Majority Leader isn’t good
enough. He should resign from the senate.

And it’s worth noting that he was replaced with another far-right, fringe
senator.

*Our battle has just started.*

Please make a donation today so that we can keep going. We really can’t
continue our work without your help.

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Join more than 500 Georgians who have already donated to our progressive
values campaign. With your help, we will keep the pressure on Georgia
conservatives.

Sincerely,
Executive Director
Better Georgia

*P.S.* We really do count on donations from people like you to keep us
going. Please take a moment right now to make a gift so that we can keep
fighting for you. It's going to take all of us working together to fight
for progress in Georgia. Donate
now<http://bettergeorgia.pnstate.org/site/R?i=OtXVDRVCejoJYTodR76k8Q>.

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