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I'd like to preface this with an anecdote. Earlier this year, I and a couple friends were on our way to Saratoga Springs to attend the New York State Democratic Rural Conference. It's a roughly five hour drive from Wyoming County to Saratoga Springs, so one of the ways we amused ourselves was keeping eyes open for other vehicles sporting Democratic stickers on the way. It was just after we'd passed Rochester that we noticed another vehicle in traffic near us, a little American-made sedan bearing a bumpersticker supporting now-Congressman Eric Massa. A short while later we happened to run across the same car at one of the Thruway's rest stops. As we went in to get coffee we ran into the car's occupant, who happened to be Congressman Eric Massa.
I say this mostly to give you the up close and personal view of how hard Eric Massa works, whether that's hauling across the state in his no-frills ride, holding town hall meetings every weekend all across his district, or his roughly three year personal campaign to win the district in the first place. He's helped lead the fight for single-payer healthcare and better support for veterans. The residents of the New York 29th are lucky to have him.
As some people reading this may be aware, Massa won last year by a razor-thin margin--just 2%, or 5,330 votes, against a Republican who was best known for having threatened to kill his wife with a shotgun during a dinner party.
No, that's not a joke.
Now, because of the narrow margin last year Massa is one of the Republicans' top targets for 2010. That's why the Congressman is looking to the same core group of rural Democrats and netroots activists that helped him to victory before. If Congressman Massa can put in a good fundraising quarter, it will help back down the Republicans who want to target him next year, and secure this seat for strong Democrat who's not afraid to call out the party of Bush and Limbaugh. Can you help him keep doing his work with a contribution of $10 or $20? |
