Thu, Jul 17, 2008
Sean Tevis for Kansas
Posted to Current Events category
A liberal inhabitant of the 21st Century and the Internet is running for State Representative in Kansas against an incumbent, who is anti-choice, anti-gay marriage, pro-censorship and pro-'intelligent design in schools'. He has a fundraising website in the style of the XKCD comic, and is trying to get 3000 donors by July 28 (according to the site, no candidate for State Representative has ever had more than 644 donors) partly because setting a record will get him publicity.
He was told he needed $26000. And calculated that $500 from two people he knew plus an average $8.34 each would put him over the top
According to the website, he currently has just under 2900 donors.
I think Kansas would benefit from having someone to counterbalance the creationists.
I recommend clicking through to see the website, even if you don't donate.
I also recommend XKCD.
I heard about this on Pharyngula, a science/liberal/atheist blog.
Posted at: 7:52 pm MDT
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Re: Sean Tevis for Kansas
Shawnwrote on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:49
I'll wait till the 27th, then give him whatever he need to hit $3000.
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Re: Sean Tevis for Kansas
Elysewrote on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:12
Not $3000, three thousand donors.
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Re: Re: Sean Tevis for Kansas
Shawnwrote on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:40Ah, guess that makes more sense.
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Re: Sean Tevis for Kansas
nanettewrote on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:59
Rowan and I ganged up for 20 and I see he has almost 3000 donors already. He may not make the news, b ut I think he'll get his warchest ? grin. Thanks for the link! Hope it helps him. Time to bring those neanderthals down.
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Re: Sean Tevis for Kansas
Elysewrote on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:58
At 10:00am MDT, they are up to 4101 donors and counting. Pharyngula is one of the big blogs on the net, with thousands of donors. It's kind of like getting slashdotted.