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You are here: Home / Economics / C.R.E.A.M. / Looking in the sun for another overload

Looking in the sun for another overload

by DougJ|  October 17, 20205:49 pm| 47 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Political Fundraising

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Partisan tensions are running high:

A Wichita man has been arrested on suspicion of threatening to kidnap and kill Wichita Mayor Brandon Whipple over frustrations with the city’s mask ordinance, the mayor and police said Friday afternoon.

Seems like a good time to raise some money for Democrats in Kansas. It’s a legitimate flip opportunity.

Kansas State Democratic Party

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I looked over some fundraising figures for Senators by state and these are the two that need our help the most right now. In many of the races we’ve been giving to (SC, IA, KS, ME), the Democratic candidate has raised more money relative to the size of state than Beta did so they don’t need so much help from us.

Cal Cunningham, North Carolina Senate

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Steve Bullock, Montana Senate

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Gary Peters, Michigan Senate (incumbent)

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You can see all the candidates we are supporting here.

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  1. 1.

    MazeDancer

    October 17, 2020 at 5:55 pm

    And Doug Jones up by 1!

    You might want to add him.

  2. 2.

    RaflW

    October 17, 2020 at 5:58 pm

    Another option for Kansas: Downballot candidates. When state legislative districts turn out more Dems and Dem-aligned voters, Bollier has more of a shot, and the whole enchilada is to prevent the KS Lege from having a supermajority that could force redistricting.

  3. 3.

    zhena gogolia

    October 17, 2020 at 5:58 pm

    Good old Glenn.

  4. 4.

    Goku (Amerikan Baka)

    October 17, 2020 at 5:58 pm

    I have an ActBlue account but I made the mistake of putting in my real email address. Can I make another account with a dummy email?

  5. 5.

    CCL

    October 17, 2020 at 6:07 pm

    @MazeDancer:  Yay, good news about Doug Jones. Time for me to make another donation.

    Repeating MazeDancer’s suggestion, can we add him to this post?

  6. 6.

    Keith P.

    October 17, 2020 at 6:15 pm

    @MazeDancer: You’re kidding me, right?  I was just in Alabama a few weeks ago, and there were a ton of commercials for both Jones and Tuberville.  I haven’t been paying much attention, since I have just assumed Tuberville would steamroll Jones solely on party affiliation

  7. 7.

    JPL

    October 17, 2020 at 6:17 pm

    @Goku (Amerikan Baka): yup

  8. 8.

    Uncle Cosmo

    October 17, 2020 at 6:19 pm

    I am a lineman for the county
    And I drive the main roads,
    Searching in the sun for another overload.
    I hear you singing in the wires,
    I can hear you through the whine –
    And the Wichita lineman is still on the line.

    I know I need a small vacation
    But it don’t look like rain,
    And if it snows that stretch down south won’t ever stand the strain.
    And I need you more than want you,
    And I want you for all time,
    And the Wichita lineman is still on the line…

    (From memory, 50+ years on – one of my college classmates had the Glen Campbell album & I had no tape recorder, so it was memorize or else.)

    Jimmy Webb (not the former Senator from VA) wrote some nice songs – this was his first hit . Also at least one howler (“MacArthur Park”) – but I’d give him a mulligan on that one; you never know what’s enough until you know what’s too much.

  9. 9.

    evap

    October 17, 2020 at 6:21 pm

    @MazeDancer:  Really?  Great news!   I will donate right now.

  10. 10.

    MazeDancer

    October 17, 2020 at 6:21 pm

    @Keith P.: The candidate, himself, tweeted it

    Those ads he has been running against Coach Quitter have to have had some impact.

  11. 11.

    WaterGirl

    October 17, 2020 at 6:29 pm

    @MazeDancer:

    Doug Jones, Alabama Senate (incumbent)

    Goal Thermometer

  12. 12.

    LuciaMia

    October 17, 2020 at 6:30 pm

     over frustrations with the city’s mask ordinance,

    Its a fucking piece of cloth. What the hell is the MATTER with people?

  13. 13.

    dmsilev

    October 17, 2020 at 6:33 pm

    @LuciaMia: FREEDUMB!

  14. 14.

    Felanius Kootea

    October 17, 2020 at 6:35 pm

    @Uncle Cosmo: Cassandra Wilson’s cover gives me goosebumps because of her voice.

  15. 15.

    Another Scott

    October 17, 2020 at 6:35 pm

    @MazeDancer:

    Yup.

    It's true folks — our latest poll has us winning this race by 1 point. It's going to be neck and neck until Election Day, and I could really use your help.@podsaveamerica @TVietor08 @jonfavs @danpfeifferhttps://t.co/E5cEG4xUhW https://t.co/kumuUseSBd

    — Doug Jones (@DougJones) October 17, 2020

    We need to fight for every seat – especially for good people like Doug Jones.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  16. 16.

    zhena gogolia

    October 17, 2020 at 6:38 pm

    @Uncle Cosmo:

    Right, it’s “searching,” not “looking.”

  17. 17.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 17, 2020 at 6:42 pm

    I am pretty well tapped out at this point — as it is, I’ve set back my move-west-to-be-near-my-siblings  fund by at least a year — but I think I’ll drop what little coin there remains in the coffers of Southern Dems running for Senate: Mike Espy (MS), Doug Jones (AL), Jon Ossoff (GA), Raphael Warnock (GA Special), Jaime Harrison (SC), and Cal Cunningham (NC).

    It’s not a particularly strategic approach, but it satisfies me. 

  18. 18.

    dmsilev

    October 17, 2020 at 6:43 pm

    Sent in some more money. This is getting expensive. Worth it, though. Definitely worth it.

  19. 19.

    Bluegirlfromwyo

    October 17, 2020 at 7:06 pm

    I’m about tapped out but donated to every fund. We need to win this thing by a couple of touchdowns. Thanks to everyone doing what they can!

  20. 20.

    HinTN

    October 17, 2020 at 7:08 pm

    @WaterGirl: I hit that button, where’s my pellet?

    ETA: Doug is the real deal. I hope he mops the floor with that shitstain Tuberville.

  21. 21.

    Kathleen

    October 17, 2020 at 7:10 pm

    @Uncle Cosmo: Wichita Lineman is one of my all time favorites. The song and Glenn Campbell’s rendition make it a masterpiece.

  22. 22.

    Kathleen

    October 17, 2020 at 7:13 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I hear you. I donate tiny sums to lots of worthy candidates. When I feel badly I think that if everyone kicked in $3 to $5 a candidate could raise a ton of money. I do the best I can.

  23. 23.

    PsiFighter37

    October 17, 2020 at 7:18 pm

    @Another Scott: If Doug Jones pulls out another win, we have won nationwide by a landslide.

  24. 24.

    debbie

    October 17, 2020 at 7:27 pm

    @LuciaMia:

    Honestly, only Trump can stop this bullshit. Of course, he won’t. Because they like him. They really, really like him.

  25. 25.

    Another Scott

    October 17, 2020 at 7:28 pm

    @PsiFighter37: I’ll take it.  I’m not greedy.

    McGrath won the endorsement of one of KY’s largest newspapers and has outraised Moscow Mitch by $10-ishM.

    I want Cotton’s seat too, but I’m not greedy.  Not too much…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  26. 26.

    DougJ

    October 17, 2020 at 7:56 pm

    @MazeDancer:

    will do

  27. 27.

    Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)

    October 17, 2020 at 8:09 pm

    @Uncle Cosmo: I know this is late, but this song is one of my favorites. This jazz cover by Birmingham native Eric Essix is amazing to me.

  28. 28.

    Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)

    October 17, 2020 at 8:13 pm

    Also, a heartfelt thank you for supporting Doug Jones. We have a real shot at this, and appreciate the people who didn’t just throw their hands up and say, “Alabama, amirite?”

    THANK YOU!

  29. 29.

    Tom Levenson

    October 17, 2020 at 8:19 pm

    Just hit the thermometers for all four. Small amounts, as my wife and I are both fear donating several times a week.

  30. 30.

    Punchy

    October 17, 2020 at 8:20 pm

    @MazeDancer: And here I thought you were talking about the poster of this thread….

    Sen. Jones gunna win re-electy in Rich Man’s Missisppy?

  31. 31.

    J R in WV

    October 17, 2020 at 8:24 pm

    @Goku (Amerikan Baka):

    I have an ActBlue account but I made the mistake of putting in my real email address. Can I make another account with a dummy email?

    I’ve been contributing to ActBlue with my real email account for a decade or more. If you get emails you don’t want, there’s an unsubscribe link at the bottom.

    Use it. It will work.

    You can also set those emails to Spam if you want, but the unsubscribe option works better. It really will work. This isn’t Ronco advertising a pocket fisherman tool.

    ETA: Don’t you want to receive a receipt from ActBlue? How will you know how much you have contributed without the receipt emails? Do you keep receipts to balance your credit cards? You don’t??!!!

  32. 32.

    WaterGirl

    October 17, 2020 at 8:31 pm

    @HinTN: Thank you may be the best I can do!  But I did put a piece of kibble in the mail for you as a thank you, but you know with the post office these days, it may never make it to you.

  33. 33.

    Punchy

    October 17, 2020 at 8:35 pm

    @PsiFighter37: I think ’18 showed just how freaked out the country was.  Then C19 hit, Agent Orange became useless and toxic, and now people are just flat-pissed.  Early voting lines in surburban KS literally out the door.  That speaks to the Dems and turnout.  Gunna be a blowout win for the Dems, followed by mass violence by the righties….

  34. 34.

    Steeplejack

    October 17, 2020 at 8:58 pm

    Worth posting Glen Campbell’s original—live lyrics over taped instrumentation on the Smothers Brothers’ show. Campbell was a gifted session musician—a member of the Wrecking Crew, in fact—and did the “guitar” solo on bass guitar on the original recording. Faked it note for note in this video.

  35. 35.

    Steeplejack

    October 17, 2020 at 9:05 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Wikipedia says “baritone guitar.” Bqhatevwr.

  36. 36.

    frosty

    October 17, 2020 at 9:14 pm

    @Steeplejack: Yep, looks like a baritone guitar to me. Nice instrument, a bit more growly than a guitar.

  37. 37.

    Steeplejack

    October 17, 2020 at 9:26 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    When you say move west, where do you have in mind?

  38. 38.

    oatler.

    October 17, 2020 at 9:31 pm

    @Kathleen:

    I remember that beautiful song, from before the Confederacy reignited the Civil War.

  39. 39.

    Steeplejack

    October 17, 2020 at 9:31 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    Glen Strzok!

  40. 40.

    Gretchen

    October 17, 2020 at 9:33 pm

    Kansas City hospitals are so full of covid patients they are turning away ambulances while man in Wichita wants to kill the mayor because of mask mandate.

  41. 41.

    MaryRC

    October 17, 2020 at 9:35 pm

    @Uncle Cosmo: That song has been my earworm today since the moment I saw DougJ’s headline.  No complaints, it’s a great song, although I wish DougJ had used “searching” instead of “looking”, it was a better word choice.  It wasn’t Webb’s first hit, though; I think that was “By the Time I Get to Phoenix”.  He has said that all of his early hits including “MacArthur Park” and “Wichita Lineman” were inspired by a disastrous first love affair.

  42. 42.

    Another Scott

    October 17, 2020 at 9:44 pm

    TheHill:

    Warning signs are flashing for Republicans in Texas as the party faces eroding support in the state’s increasingly diverse suburbs.

    A number of House seats in the state’s suburbs this cycle are in play for Democrats, while Democratic Senate candidate MJ Hegar has outperformed expectations in her race against incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). The Senate Majority PAC announced on Thursday it was jumping into the race, launching an $8.6 million television blitz supporting Hegar.

    At the presidential level, a number of polls show Trump holding a single-digit lead over Democratic nominee Joe Biden. The former vice president’s wife, Jill Biden, visited a number of Texas suburbs this week in an effort to rally the vote.

    […]

    However, many say this message is backfiring on the president in the suburbs, especially in Texas.

    “We don’t have much white flight left in Texas,” said Richard Murray, a pollster and political science professor at the University of Houston. “For years, one of the drivers of suburban growth were whites in the older inner-city areas moving out, and they were usually making these areas increasingly conservative and Republican.”

    “That’s pretty much over in Dallas, Houston and Austin,” Murray said. “Now the suburban growth is driven by minorities moving out.”

    Experts say that the influx of African Americans, Hispanics and Asians to the state’s suburbs could prove to be bad news for Republicans in November due to Trump’s presence at the top of the ticket.

    “Those voters were not particularly Democratic, but they’re sure anti-Trump,” Murray said. “That’s been one of the factors that has accelerated this shift in the suburbs.”

    Additionally, the state’s redistricting process, which appeared to favor Republicans by drawing lines around the Texas suburbs, may be backfiring as minority communities put down their roots in suburban enclaves.

    “The maps wore out,” Murray said. “Texas added a lot more people since the 2010 census than any other state, and most of those are in the suburbs, and most of those are not white.”

    The suburban districts have in turn reflected what is happening across the country at a faster pace.

    “I like to say that when Republicans in the suburbs nationally have a cold, they have the flu in Texas in these districts because everything in the state is happening five times faster,” said Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokesman Avery Jaffe.

    Democrats saw some of their most encouraging gains in 2018, when now-Democratic Reps. Lizzie Fletcher and Colin Allred ousted two longtime Republican incumbents in suburban Texas districts: Fletcher in the 7th District, in the greater Houston area, and Allred in the 32nd District, in the greater Dallas area.

    Additionally, then-Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) came within roughly 2 points of ousting incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz (D-Texas).

    Two years later, six Texas Republicans in the House have announced they are retiring, leaving the door open for Democrats to go on the offensive. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report has rated two of these districts, the 22nd in the Houston suburbs and 24th in the suburbs between Dallas and Fort Worth, as “toss-ups.” Cook rated another district — the 23rd, which goes from the San Antonio suburbs to El Paso and is held by retiring Rep. Will Hurd (R) — as “lean Democratic.”

    “It’s worrisome,” said one Texas-based Republican strategist. “They’re raising a lot, for sure, so they’ve got the resources they need.”

    […]

    Run up the score!!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  43. 43.

    Uncle Cosmo

    October 17, 2020 at 10:45 pm

    @MaryRC: I wish DougJ had used “searching” instead of “looking”, it was a better word choice.

    It wasn’t “a better word choice” – it was Webb’s lyric. (Which FTR is better in part because it alliterates with “sun”.) DougJ simply misremembered the words & couldn’t be arsed to take 45 seconds to check them. I guess when your job is shilling for cash everything else gets cast by the wayside.

    Upon further review, I believe you are correct about “Phoenix” being Webb’s first hit; it wasn’t a song that made much of an impression on me at the time, so I didn’t think of it.

  44. 44.

    Ian

    October 18, 2020 at 1:19 am

    I still don’t understand why Peters is in such a terrible spot.  He is polling 3-5 points behind Biden, he has raised more money than the average senator in this cycle, and is now begging for money after making a 20 million dollar ad buy.

    I get he is more the quite type and doesn’t ride the corporate pac circle, I can even admire that about him, but if this were a Republican congressional campaign we would be laughing about the incompetence and probable grift that led to this position.  Peters has no reason to be where he is, and I wish I knew why.

  45. 45.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    October 18, 2020 at 2:09 am

    @Ian:

    Someone wrote here a few days ago that Peters’s track record is that he always seems to be in trouble but then squeaks through in the end. I have no idea if that is true. It’s nerve-wracking, especially this year.

  46. 46.

    MaryRC

    October 18, 2020 at 2:42 am

    @Uncle Cosmo: Uh … OK.  I meant that it was Webb’s better word choice.  I didn’t actually think DougJ had written the lyrics.

  47. 47.

    Brian

    October 19, 2020 at 12:56 am

    @frosty: the terminology has changed since that record came out. In the ’60s “bass guitar” meant a 30″ scale six string instrument tuned like a standard guitar an octave down, its lowest note the same pitch as a “Fender bass” (34″ scale) but with a much lighter timbre because of light gauge strings. The most common ones were the Danelectro and the Fender Bass VI, and were never intended to perform the actual bass function provided by (at the time) the upright bass, but to be played by a guitarist with a pick in unison with the upright to give more definition to the note; “tic tac bass” was the usual term. Guitar players, though, also saw the potential of it as a solo instrument; I think “Don’t Worry About Me” by Marty Robbins was the first such use of it. Because “bass guitar” has replaced “Fender bass” as one term for the standard instrument, “baritone guitar” became a catch-all for any low tuned six string guitar type instrument.

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