Fundraising, Willie Nelson Taking Bush to Task
The following email was sent by the Kucinich campaign on January 1, 2004. You can sign up to receive these emails at the official campaign website
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NINE MILLION DOLLARS
Tomorrow the Kucinich campaign will file with the FEC for $2.603 million in matching funds. This is in addition to $741,000 already filed for, making a total of $3.34 million. That total includes no contributions since December 4 - so there is more to come. The rapidly expanding Kucinich campaign receives a higher percentage of its contributions in small donations than does any other campaign, and processing the many small contributions takes time.
Dennis himself helped answer the phones until 3 a.m. this morning Eastern Time (the end of the fourth quarter Pacific Time) as contributions came in. The campaign's fourth quarter money now stands at $1.622 million, with many checks still to be counted and the possibility that the figure will reach the mark set by the campaign during the third quarter of $1.7 million. The Kucinich campaign brought in just over $1.5 million in the second quarter, and $187,000 in the first quarter. So the total, without counting matching funds, is about $5 million. With at least 80 percent being matched, that total jumps to about $9 million.
January 2 and 3rd will witness a series of fundraising events for the Kucinich campaign in Austin, Texas, including a concert on the 3rd featuring Willie Nelson performing his new song "What Ever Happened to Peace on Earth." Like last night's fundraising party at campaign headquarters, the concert will be shown in live video over the web at www.kucinich.us. If you can't be at the show, tune in from 8 - 10 p.m. Central Time on Saturday, January 3rd.
NEWS ABOUT WILLIE'S NEW SONG
Read this Reuters article about Willie's new song:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46609-2003Dec31.html
Read the lyrics: http://www.kucinich.us/nelson_poe_song.php
TAKE ACTION:
First, call your local newspaper's entertainment editor and ask them to print the Reuter's story or a similar Associated Press story about Willie's new song. It's a holiday, and they need something to print tomorrow.
Second, call your local country music radio shows and ask them to play Willie's new song. He just recorded it yesterday.
ENJOY:
Listen to Willie Nelson's only other protest song, one he continues to sing today: http://www.smn.com/peace
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