Yesterday Blue America's cable ads started running in Utah's 2nd Congressional District. I called every gay millionaire I know to help with funding the inexpensive spots (which we made ourselves at NO COST, not even a dime). And every gay millionaire I know called their Inside the Beltway contacts, and they all got the same answer: "Who? Never heard of her. Don't waste your money." And all those gay millionaires gave me exactly zero dollars and zero cents. So... we quickly put up this ActBlue page and sold 216 ads for $4,072, an average of less than $20 each. And we did it in three days, mostly via Twitter! It was more productive than listening to some know-it-all battle-weary "progressive" in DC tell me she's a great candidate but she couldn't win because she didn't have any professional photographs taken. (Yes, it's different in DC than in America.)
Unseating an entrenched incumbent in a primary is a thankless and nearly impossible task. The Inside the Beltway (gay and otherwise) organizations that gave Claudia the big thumbs-down-- just because they don't know her and she's not part of their cloying and claustrophobic little world-- may be proven correct on Tuesday. In fact, odds favor their negative approach. Meanwhile, though, the previously homophobic Blue Dog, the ultra-entitled Jim Matheson, scared of his first-ever primary, voted to abolish Don't Ask Don't Tell two weeks ago, and on Tuesday, shockingly, was one of the Blue Dogs who refused to join any of Boehner's maneuvering to rescind healthcare reform, which Matheson had originally joined Boehner to vote against. That's the magic of a vigorous primary.
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