Help Monica Win

There's a couple of folks I've taken a real liking to here of late.  The first is Monica Lindeen.  I got to meet her about a week and a half ago, and I was very impressed with her intelligence, her ease with people, and her firm grounding in what she wants for Montana and how we can achieve those goals.

I know, that sounds like your typical political plug.  But here's the thing.  I was in a barn full of people, the vast majority of whom I didn't know.  I tend to get very tense in crowds, and I'm deceptively poor at dealing with social situations.  But I was there to support a man I believe in, and I was gonna suffer through regardless of the tension pains growing in my shoulders.  Out of the blue, a woman amicably and whole-heartedly smiled and said "So you're Wulfgar", and within seconds I felt right at ease talking to her.  That was Monica Lindeen.  I ended up monopolizing her time for at least a quarter hour (impressive time at a such a meet'n'greet).  She's smart as a whip, realistic, honest and committed to her people and her campaign.  That's everything I want in a Representative, and everything that Denny Rehberg isn't.

The other person I'm getting mighty fond of is Russ Feingold, Senator from the state of Wisconsin.  He's the one that actually has the courage to let our unpopular President know that Americans won't stand for his bending the rules to compensate for his own incompetence.  That right there is enough to convince me that Fiengold is my kind of leader.

What's really fun is that these two people are coming together to work for us.  Feingold is the honorary chair of the Progressive Patriots Fund.  That PAC is currently holding a vote to show support for the top 8 progressive candidates deserving funds in 2006.  Most of the PACs choices are from big-money races in big-money states;  most, but not all.  One of their choices is Monica Lindeen, running for the at large House seat in the fine state of Montana.  So, I'm asking anybody who reads this to show your support.  Go to the vote website and vote for Monica.  And you might want to throw her some extra coin, just because she deserves the win, and Denny deserves to be back home with the goats.  (Poor goats ...)

Comments

[Lovely Bone]

I see your pint about Feingold. I like him enough to think that the DLC will probably go out of its way to jettison him.

[Josh]

Yeah, Monica is a really great person. I knew her from back in her MCN days before politics and she has never changed since then. She is a really good person.

[Eric Coobs]

Politically Lindeen has nothing to lose, but I don't see her doing any better, or getting any more party support than Tracy Velasquez got. The 'Head-Democrats-in-charge' will send their support to other races, and not waste their cash on a lost cause.

[grannyinsanity]

Denny can go home to spend his twenty-six million dollars that we don't know how he acquired them.

[Josh]

Eric, that's true, but I do know Monica has raised more than Tracy did, so I know she is really giving it everything she has. I think you are right though...efforts are going to go to other places. Too bad really. She is a good leader.