Three-Quarters of the Way to New Mexico
MoveOn.org has started a fundraiser to get money to pay for the hotel bills of the Texas Democrats holed up in New Mexico, and to start a media campaign to raise awareness of the relentless and single-minded effort by Washington and Texas Republicans to redistrict in favor of the GOP for the 2004 election. This is considered way out of line, as redistricting is supposed to take place at census time only, not every time one party takes control of a state legislature.
What’s so surprising about this? After only a week of fundraising, already $750,000 (at time of posting) of the $1 million goal has been raised. At this rate, they could almost fund a presidential candidate. When they get to a million bucks, they shouldn’t stop–advertise as far as the funding will take them. That’s the kind of issue-oriented funding we should have, not the $5,000-a-plate GOP fundraising or the major-corporate-backing “voice of the people” nonsense.