We're just two days from the most important fundraising deadline in the 2006 elections, and I wanted to write to you about three candidates who will help change the course in Congress and in America: Jon Tester (MT-Sen), Harold Ford, Jr. (TN-Sen), and Ned Lamont (CT-Sen).
Help change the course with Jon, Harold, and Ned in these final days before the September 30th deadline. Contribute today!Jon Tester
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Today, I am in Montana to support one of our strongest candidates to take over a Republican-held Senate seat, Jon Tester. Jon is an organic farmer from Big Sandy, MT, and for the last eight years has also been a State Senator and is currently the President of the Montana State Senate.
Jon is running against one of the worst Senators in Congress, Republican Conrad Burns. Burns received nearly $150,000 from disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his associates, with Abramoff himself being quoted in Vanity Fair as saying, "Every appropriation we wanted from Senator Conrad Burns' committee we got." And what Senator tells a team of fire fighters who had traveled to Montana from Virginia to fight a major forest fire that they were "doing a piss-poor job"?
Montana is a state that President Bush carried by 20 points in 2004, yet Jon Tester is leading in the polls because of his authentic representation of Montana values.
Harold Ford
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On the opposite side of the country in Tennessee, another red state is poised to elect a rising young Democratic star. Congressman Harold Ford Jr. is running to take over Bill Frist's Senate seat, and his tireless campaigning has put him in the lead of this state that hasn't elected a Democrat to the Senate since Al Gore was re-elected in 1990. Harold focuses on making government work for people. When government is ineffective or gets in the way, he works to reform it and remove barriers that prevent people from getting ahead.
Ford is running against multi-millionaire Bob Corker, who has already spent $4.2 million of his own money to win the Republican primary. Corker's campaign is in total disarray with corruption scandals and revelations that he underfunded the emergency 911 system as Chattanooga mayor, leading to 31,000 unanswered calls.
A victory in Tennessee could provide Democrats with the sixth takeover of a Republican held seat that would switch the Senate over to Democratic control.
Ned Lamont
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In Connecticut, Ned Lamont is running the type of campaign all Democrats can be proud of. Standing up to President Bush's failed policy in Iraq, dispensing with self-serving and wishy-washy notions of "independence," and pledging to invest in America's future, Ned Lamont is a candidate for Senate who I am proud to endorse.
Of course Ned's opponent, Joe Lieberman, after refusing to abide by the results of August's Democratic primary election, has decided to do his best to drag every Connecticut Democrat's electoral prospects down with him. He continues to provide political cover to President Bush and other local Republicans despite their clearly failed policies.
By supporting Ned Lamont, you are not only helping to elect a proud Democrat to the U.S. Senate from Connecticut, but you are also helping three Democratic challengers in tough House races who are running with Ned's name at the top of the ticket.
The critical end-of-quarter fundraising deadline is just two days. I hope that you will join me in supporting these three tremendous candidates for Senate, any one of whom will make waves when elected this November, and all three of whom will help us change course and move America forward.
Sincerely,
Wes Clark
P.S. Whether you can help one, two, or all three of these great candidates, please contribute now! The September 30th fundraising deadline is less than 48 hours away. Whatever you can give -- today -- will have a huge impact on our ability to win back Congress this November.
