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Ted Kennedy, the DSCC, and My Two Cents

by CabinGirl
Sun Jul 16th, 2006 at 06:23:26 PM EST

Remember the old Joe Cocker song, "The Letter"?

Give me a ticket for an aeroplane
I ain't got time to take no fast train
Oh ,the lonely days are gone
I'll be right home
My baby she wrote me a letter

I've given them an update in honor of the DSCC:

Give me some money for my campaign
Ain't got time to listen to you people complain
Minority days be gone
We'll be movin' on
Ted Kennedy wrote me a letter
I don't care how much money I got to send,
I won't vote for Joe Lieberman again
Ned Lamont's the man
Don't you understand?
Ted Kennedy wrote me a letter
Well he wrote me a letter
Said Chuck Schumer couldn't do it without me, no more
I said "Listen to me mister, what the hell did you pick Bob Casey for?"
Anyway
Give me some money for my campaign
Ain't got time to listen to you people complain
We want to be in power
The Repubs final hour
Ted Kennedy wrote me a letter

Ted Kennedy wrote me a letter....

Why the update, you ask?

Earlier this week, I got a letter from Teddy Kennedy...asking me for money for the folks at the DSCC. You know, the people who anointed Bob Casey to run for Senate against Rick Santorum. Anyway, Ted sent me a lovely 2-page letter, asking me if I've had enough (you betcha, Ted!) and telling me which senate races are looking good.

Since it has a postage paid envelope, I am going to write dear ol' Ted a letter, and tell him just how much I appreciate what Chuck Schumer and the DSCC have done for me here in PA. And since he's asked for a donation, I thought I'd tape 2 pennies to my letter, since all I really want to give him is my two cents. And then I can thank him for the nice window sticker that says "Had Enough? Vote Democrat in 06.", and let him know that I already sent my PA senate campaign donation to Chuck Pennacchio, and that if I feel a need to donate in the future, I'll just send money to my candidate directly, seeing as I can't trust the DSCC to allow me a range of candidates to choose from in the primary elections.

Better luck next time, Ted, right?

Then it occurred to me that we're all going to be getting letters like this from Ted (and from his pal Rahm Emanuel at the DCCC) in the coming months, and we should start a Two Cents Campaign. Here's what to do:

1. When the letter comes, take the donation form and tape 2 pennies to it.
2. Write a letter giving them your `Two cents worth', and explain why you won't give them money, but will instead donate to the candidates of your choice directly.
3. Now for the fun part: take your letter and the form with the 2 pennies, and stick it in that lovely postage-paid envelope they so thoughtfully provided, and stick it in the mailbox - it won't even cost you a stamp!

So, who's with me?

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Ted Kennedy, the DSCC, and My Two Cents | 21 comments (21 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

You are a song writer too? (4.00 / 8)

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by Militarytracy on Sun Jul 16th, 2006 at 06:28:46 PM EST

Re: Ted Kennedy, the DSCC, and My Two Cents (4.00 / 6)

I got the same mailing from Ted. As soon as I saw the DCCC sermon, I tore it up. Wish I would've read this beforehand. I'll make sure to follow your advice next time they decide to make a trip to their ATM (my various inboxes). It's a great idea, thanks CabinGirl.

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by Man Eegee (man.eegee at gmail.com) on Sun Jul 16th, 2006 at 06:29:45 PM EST

Re: Ted Kennedy, the DSCC, and My Two Cents (4.00 / 6)

Hay, that's what they make scotch tape for. Great idea, CG!

Fear will keep the local systems in line. -Grand Moff Tarkin Survivor Left Blogistan

by boran2 (blogistan@yahoo.com) on Sun Jul 16th, 2006 at 08:48:19 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Ted Kennedy, the DSCC, and My Two Cents (4.00 / 8)

I love it!!!! You need to cross post this across the blogosphere!!!!!

Doing My Part For The Left,Left Of The Rainbow

by refinish69 (refinish69 at gmail dot com) on Sun Jul 16th, 2006 at 06:34:30 PM EST

Joe Cocker sang it ... (4.00 / 10)

...but he didn't write it. That's Wayne Carson Thompson's song, which he recorded, sang with The Boxtops and received a Grammy nomination for in 1967. Cocker and Leon Russell sang it in 1970.

But I'm with you when it comes to direct contributions.

"We're trying to give the illusion of due diligence." --Bennett Holiday to Jimmy Pope in Syriana

by Meteor Blades (tleelange@hotmail.com) on Sun Jul 16th, 2006 at 06:35:19 PM EST

Also (4.00 / 8)

available in orange.

by CabinGirl on Sun Jul 16th, 2006 at 06:50:16 PM EST

Re: Ted Kennedy, the DSCC, and My Two Cents (4.00 / 7)

Great action idea, Cabin Girl! Count me in!!

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by shirlstars (shirlstarsw@aol.com) on Sun Jul 16th, 2006 at 07:01:46 PM EST

BTW (4.00 / 4)

The comments on the orange version are, um, entertaining. :)

by BooMan on Sun Jul 16th, 2006 at 07:37:51 PM EST

Re: BTW (4.00 / 4)

Yeep! They've managed to get rid of nearly everyone who isn't a lockstep blinders-wearing humor-impaired party minion, haven't they?

"As a woman, I have no country. . . . As a woman, my country is the whole world." --Virginia Woolf

by Raging Hippie (raginghippie at comcast dot net) on Sun Jul 16th, 2006 at 11:31:15 PM EST
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not entirely (4.00 / 3)

but a lot of those who aren't marching in lockstep are so damn tired of it all that it seems that way.

</bush>

by wu ming on Mon Jul 17th, 2006 at 04:47:14 AM EST
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Re: BTW (none / 1)

Nah, lotrs of us still there. Good fun, and some good work to do there.

"I said, 'Wait a minute, Chester, you know I'm a peaceful man.'" R. Robertson.

by NearlyNormal on Mon Jul 17th, 2006 at 07:54:22 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: BTW (none / 1)

noticed how much they love you there :-)

If you want me to go back to the place that I was born, tell your corporations to leave my country (Leon Gieco)

by cruz del sur (nicodk@sbcglobal.net) on Mon Jul 17th, 2006 at 12:12:18 PM EST
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Re: Ted Kennedy, the DSCC, and My Two Cents (4.00 / 5)

I'm so popular these days, I get letters from everyone...I can't wait to put this into action, good thing I have a pennies jar!

Thanks CG for the GREAT idea.

Doesn't information itself have a liberal bias? Steven Colbert

by NLinStPaul on Sun Jul 16th, 2006 at 08:02:05 PM EST

Re: Ted Kennedy, the DSCC, and My Two Cents (4.00 / 2)

What a great idea, CG! You totally rock. And roll!

"As a woman, I have no country. . . . As a woman, my country is the whole world." --Virginia Woolf

by Raging Hippie (raginghippie at comcast dot net) on Sun Jul 16th, 2006 at 11:22:15 PM EST

Re: Ted Kennedy, the DSCC, and My Two Cents (4.00 / 2)

What a sad, grey little group over at the orange place.

I love the life in you, CabinGirl.

by Tehanu on Mon Jul 17th, 2006 at 01:56:20 PM EST

Re: Ted Kennedy, the DSCC, and My Two Cents (none / 1)

I love this idea! I'm in.

Is it 2009 yet?

by Teacher Toni (tacoralatyahoodotcom) on Mon Jul 17th, 2006 at 01:18:49 PM EST

Re: Ted Kennedy, the DSCC, and My Two Cents (none / 1)

Hey CG: If you an ole Joe (Cocker that is) ever decide to cut a duets album, I'll buy one, as long as your version of his old hit is on it! Looking for two loose penny's as I speak. Take care.

It is time for Democrats to remember who got us in this mess, oppose them and not each other.

by keepinon (jaukkuri@sbcglobal.net) on Mon Jul 17th, 2006 at 02:00:39 PM EST

Re: Ted Kennedy, the DSCC, and My Two Cents (none / 1)

Great idea, CG! Can't wait until I get one of those letters, though if we could figure out a way to send two cents to every one of those John Kerry emails I keep getting (despite "unsubscribing" ahem), we'd really have something going there!

Thanks for posting this, CG.

Urban Oasis

by Iowa Victory Gardener (wolfcubiaatearthlinkdotnet) on Mon Jul 17th, 2006 at 04:17:19 PM EST

Do what I do (none / 1)

Take a Sharpie and write across any survey, donation form, whatever, in letters big enough that even Ted Stevens could read it:

UNTIL YOU FIX THIS COUNTRY'S ELECTION SYSTEM, NONE OF THE REST OF THIS IS GOING TO MATTER.

And if anyone ever writes me back to ask me what I mean by that, boy are they going to get more than they bargained for. (Unless I keel over dead from the surprise of a congresscritter actually writing me a non-form letter that doesn't ask for money.)

The avalanche has started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -- Ambassador Kosh

by Omir the Storyteller (omir.the.storyteller -CAT- gmail -DOG- com) on Tue Jul 18th, 2006 at 12:01:41 PM EST

Money talks, bullshit walks (none / 1)

When Schumer and friends come sniffing for $$$, I enclose one of these in the postpaid envelope.

download pdf here

This came to me from RevDeb via the FDL/Roots Project

"...psychopaths have little difficulty infiltrating the domains of...politics, law enforcement, (and) government." Dr. Robert Hare

by RubDMC (rubdmc yahoo! snot bomb) on Tue Jul 18th, 2006 at 12:16:54 PM EST

Perfect! (none / 0)

And the PDF prints 3 to a page!

Thanks to everyone who's planning to particpate when they get their next mailer.

by CabinGirl on Tue Jul 18th, 2006 at 12:24:35 PM EST
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