Two or three might even have paid attention in ninth grade history class. But the quick and dirty synopsis is that 300 Spartans held the pass for 48 hours against an omnipotent army of Persians set upon destroying government by the people, for the people. For all time.
Had the Persians succeeded we would likely not be having this discussion about free elections today.
In the movie versions they all died of course.
I really hope a better outcome for the three hundred volunteers that I solicit today.
I stand hat in hand asking for your help. Not just support. Not just money. Not only your vote. Although I do need all that.
I have to figure out a way to organize a campaign that can put the will of the people back into the Senate Six seat and set corruption and mismanagement of your tax dollars on the back row.
No, I am in a political contest against the most powerful and best funded political opponent since the sixties. An opponent who raised over a million dollars in the last election- with no opposition.
The State of Alabama is a ten billion dollar business and it has been controlled by my opponent and his cohort for 25 years. A cohort which can raise another million any time of the day or night with a single phone call. They can probably do it every day for a year.
After all ten billion dollars of your money is at stake - Every year for the next four years.
Yes friends I have stuck my neck out. Way out. Like the turtle, the only way to make progress. Unfortunately that is also the way to start turtle soup. Also unfortunately- divisions within our State Republican Party have, for the time being, left my reinforcements behind in Greece.
So let’s review a couple of things. First and foremost, the thing on my mind is how I can bring about some prosperity brought by jobs and careers with paychecks which will support a hard-working family. That’s my first priority. To put paychecks in the hands of the people instead of government handouts. Then to lower your taxes and put groceries on your table.
And so I’m about to do the hardest thing I’ve had to do in this campaign: ask you to consider joining the club of 300 volunteers who can steer the direction of Alabama.
I need 300 people who will put their name on a paper and publicly state that they are ready to retire the 25 year term of our sitting senator in district 6.
300 people, brave enough, who will stand and agree that 136 years of a Democratic party controlled legislature in Alabama is long enough.
And from each of you I need skin in the game.
A Check. Not cash - A check.
A contribution so I can bring you the representation you deserve.
I am not asking the moon.
Just one check for $25.
Now if you are that man in the back of the room who can write a check for $25,000, don't go away, I need to talk to you later. But for now I am talking about the people who can afford to give Sunday dinner money.
Give so that I can take a box of checks to the party headquarters and dump them on the desk and say to them "These are the people who want and deserve a real change in the way we do business in Alabama."
These checks have intrinsic and extrinsic value. These checks were not just money pressed into a palm. These checks have an address and a signature and most of all they come with a face. A person. A family to whom I have made a commitment to better their lives. A concrete symbol to convince the "Authoriti" that we want and deserve a different outcome.
Please understand that this is not about the money. At least not entirely. The campaign takes money for sure, but it is about showing the party that I have people who want this to happen. If enough people will take this message to heart. Truly take it to heart. we can move our message to a lot of people and alter the outcome in November.
My most recent FCPA showed a cash balance of $159. My most recent poll showed me at 48% district wide. But yesterday Google said that 533 people read my blog. Now assuming that half are supporters that is 267 of the 300. I think I have a dozen already in my shoebox. We can win. with your help we can win.
Like the 300 at Thermopylae we stand against some long odds.
But this time we have an even chance.
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