We're almost at the end of the 2008 MyDD Fundraiser. Soon there won't be anymore Please Contribute to MyDD Today links and that means we only have a little more time to do the right thing and make this campaign a success.
Click here to contribute.I just made my own donation and I'm proud to tell you a little bit about why I did.
I made my own modest contribution, because I know that the money I contributed will go directly to defraying the expenses of two extraordinary bloggers and pillars of this community, Todd Beeton and Jonathan Singer.
These two guys work their asses off on a daily basis to bring you unmatched political reporting. I know, because I've seen them in action.
Yesterday, I was at the Obama rally in Alexandria where Todd, after a late night covering the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Richmond, was listening to an education round table event with Senator Obama and some concerned citizens. When I say he was listening, I mean it. The whole room could hear the Senator, but only one small speaker was picking up the feed from the other participants' microphones. While many national reporters took this as an invitation to catch up on their email, Todd was part of a small group clustered around that one speaker, listening to the Senator answer questions about special ed and math homework.
I walked over with Todd to the main event, a rally in the home gymnasium of the T.C. Williams High School Titans of Remember the Titans fame - I wrote about it earlier here. It was my first Obama speech since the 2004 convention, but Todd had seen a pretty similar speech the night before, so he jumped in the car to drive an hour North to Bowie, Maryland to hear Bill Clinton speak.
The night before that, I was hanging out with Jonathan Singer, who isn't letting a full course-load at law school get in the way of his work for this site. It was a Saturday night in a city of beautiful women and strong drinks. Or maybe it's strong women and beautiful drinks, it doesn't really matter. The point is, that he spent most of it on the couch in my apartment watching election returns and blogging. I finally dragged him out a little before midnight and despite the late evening, he was up before me the next morning to watch Dubya' on Faux y Amigos.
I can't say it any clearer, Todd and Jonathan are deeply committed to this community and this movement. They support our habits as political junkies and their insights make us better activists. Now it's our turn to support them. Please give what you can so they can keep going and make MyDD even stronger in 2008.
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