Campaigned with Uncle Sam on July 4!
T-shirts: arrived July 15
Google: 1 million+ hits July 17
Invited to speak at “We Are One” rally sponsored by AFL-CIO/MoveOn July 17
Supporter meets with Rep. Steve Israel, Chair DCCC, July 18
Mailing list: Up to 14,000
Newsletter: launched by Transylvania County
House parties and volunteer meetings in Buncombe, Transylvania, Yancey have reached hundreds of voters. More scheduled daily.
Joined the MoveOn sponsored demonstration at Cong. Shuler’s office to protest “Cap, Cut and Balance.”
(AFL-CIO told workers to attend that demonstration.)
Donations: Hit $11,000 July 31
Sixty attend volunteer meeting at Pack’s Tavern, Aug. 1
Billboards: up in Jackson and Macon counties Aug. 2
Invited to speak at Democratic Party functions in multiple counties.
Youth/College Director Chelsea Cook starts work in mid-August.
Float in Labor Day Parade in Canton and Apple Festival Parade in Hendersonville, coming Sept. 5.
“There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat it.” – from The Little Foxes, a play by Lillian Hellman. Standing around watching, or just forwarding righteous emails isn’t cutting it for me anymore. Donate to Cecil’s campaign monthly using PayPal – $10-$20 a month lots of us won’t even miss. One less supper eaten out? One less expensive bottle of wine? Or?