FEED the BAT!

By Aziz P. -
We have collectively raised $21,000 for Dean - but we have not yet met our September fund-raising goal of $25,000. Remember, the 3rd Quarter ends in 3 days and the campaign still has to raise $2.5 million to reach its goal. We must do our part!

Remember, by pooling our donations we at Dean Nation have taken the lead among all Dean Teams and spoken with one voice - and $21,000 - of our resolve to see Dean win the nomination and defeat Bush.

Doesn't the Plame affair make you angry? Bush 43's white house has broken a law signed by Bush 41 - deliberately blowing the cover of a CIA agent to fulfill a petty vendetta. They place their political gain and their school-yard bully ethics above the national interest, above the law, above morality and basic human decency.

And Howard Dean is the only one who can defeat them.

But we must help Dean raise dollars - and in so doing, again excercise our power as the grassroots, the voice of the People, who are the true engine driving Dean's campaign rather than the special interests.

Do what you can - join us and let's get Dean Nation to our goal of $25,000 - do it for Valerie Plame, do it for all the troops dying in Iraq, the National Guard reservists who have been forced into extended duty, the hundreds of thousands of new jobless every month. Do it for ourselves. This is our country and we have to take it back - and that means we have to FEED THE BAT!

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