Subject: Emerging veteran leaders need your help - Will you answer the call?
From: "Brandon Friedman, VoteVets.org" <[email-masked]>
To: "John Podesta" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:03:53 GMT

Dear John Podesta,

Winning Congressional seats is hard--especially when candidates
have extensive military experience, but little practical
political experience. That's why the key to building a
long-term, progressive cadre of national leaders with
on-the-ground foreign policy experience is to have a "deep
bench," as they say in sports. In order to win House and Senate
seats for years to come, we have to be able to put up candidates
that have years of political experience under their belts. 

So today, we'd like to introduce you to two of what we call our
"Emerging Leaders" Missouri State House candidates Jason Kander
and Stephen Webber. And, we'd also like to ask you to help put
them in office by donating to their campaigns. 

Donate to Jason Kander and Stephen Webber by clicking here!
[http://www.actblue.com/page/emergingleaders]

Jason is a Kansas City attorney who served as an Army officer in
Afghanistan - and he's running to represent Missouri's 44th
House District. Stephen served in the Marine Corps and completed
two tours in Iraq - and now he's running to represent Missouri's
23rd House District in Columbia. 

Jason and Stephen are just two of our Emerging Leaders - a "farm
team" of progressive candidates with hands-on national security
experience. In this program, we recruit vets with little to no
political experience and promote them in state and local races -
whether it's for the State Senate, State House, City Council, or
dog catcher. The idea is to develop seasoned leaders who are
more than capable of not only running for higher office in the
coming years--should they choose to--but of winning. By
fostering their political careers at the earliest stages, we'll
help them to become our nation's leaders for years to come.

The reason we're focusing on these two superb candidates first
is that they're nearing the end of their tough primaries and
they need immediate help. If they make it out of this primary,
neither of them will face a general election opponent this fall.
If they can win on August 5th, they'll become members of the
Missouri State Legislature. 

Donate to Jason Kander and Stephen Webber by clicking here!
[http://www.actblue.com/page/emergingleaders]

I know both these men personally, and I can assure you that they
stand for the same ideals that the rest of us do at
VoteVets.org. You'll be hearing more about them - along with the
rest of our Emerging Leaders - soon.

Thank you for your support!

Sincerely,

Brandon Friedman
Vice Chairman, VoteVets.org
Iraq and Afghanistan War Veteran

P.S. You can learn more about Stephen, Jason, and the rest of
our Emerging Leaders by clicking here
[http://www.votevets.org/candidates?id=0010]. 

P.S.S. If you'd like to donate to any of our other Emerging
Leaders now, please go to our Emerging Leaders ActBlue page and
donate to "VoteVets." Click here.
[http://www.actblue.com/page/emergingleaders]

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