Seems that the Virginia Democratic Party never thought to image-search the Internet for one of their candidates.

Va. Dem. House candidate performed sex online with husband for tips

Novel way to finance a campaign. Personally, I think her best chance would be saying she was proud of this and wondering how many MAGA men will vote for her out of fantasy, but instead she’s complaining the videos were taken from one freely-available porn site to another, which looks like a legal non-starter.

No link to the videos; this is a family Indivisible site.

Links we promised

Vote Forward Virginia letter campaigns

Postcards for VA, Feggans is in the first row, House of Delegates

Other highlights

Champagne. Surprising amount left over. I’ll have another bottle for the convictions.
Zoom with Nicole Zambrano of Sister District. Three critical races in Virginia, of which Feggans is one. She talked about the difficulty of being a first-time candidate in a new district.
Bruce gave a summary of CA Indivisible… welcome to make a post!
We had a new person. Welcome, Harry!

Phone banking and postcarding for Virginia begins. Sister District is planning to organize something in the East Bay for mid-July. In the meantime… you can join these.

• Sister District Yolo Phonebank for Michael Feggans 
  • Every Monday, 2pm-4pm PT
• Sister District Sacramento Phonebank for Michael Feggans
  • Wednesdays, 2:30pm-5pm PT
  • Saturdays, 10am-12pm PT
• Sister District Greater Chicago Phonebank for Michael Feggans
  • Wednesdays, 3pm-5pm PT 
• Sister District National Phonebank for Michael Feggans 
  • Thursdays, 1pm-3pm PT

We are also asking for 500 Feggans addresses for postcards. We’ll let you know when they become available.

Vote Forward is doing letters to Ohio against the August referendum-to-stop-referenda. The purpose is to prevent passage of a referendum in favor of abortion rights.

Our auction is up. Tell your friends. Our direct Sister District link for Feggans donations is here.

The world shows no sign of slowing down…

We began with an excellent bottle of champagne. As part of our ongoing membership drive, I pledge that all further Trump indictments will also have champagne. If he goes to prison, that day I will splurge for caviar to go with it.

Our fundraising for Michael Feggans of Virginia is only about 60% complete. For this campaign, because we have allied with Sister District, the donation page is ActBlue under their auspices. And to raise a little extra cash…

The auction is back!

and you may look at and bid on twenty lots of campaign memorabilia at this link, which you should share with all your friends. Once again, that link is https://www.32auctions.com/elm2023 .

Sample items — 

Other items: Bruce and I gave reports on Zoom meetings about 2022 campaigns. One was California Donor Table, the other Aaron Frank and Focus for Democracy. CDT had to admit that California underperformed in 2022, and announced the seven districts (no surprises) that they are targeting for 2024. We heard from a number of field organizers. Everyone knows we do better if we engage voters ahead of time. The most interesting point from Focus for Democracy is the large number of net Democratic votes that Working America (a project of the AFL-CIO) obtained in every swing state except Arizona. Frank is very interested in maximizing donor bang for buck, spoke well of them.

Bruce is working on getting us a guest speaker. Details to follow.

CDT has another Zoom session this Wednesday, noon. (One source says 1:00 pm, but the previous meeting was at noon.) Register here.

Bruce and I went to some Zooms this week on how we did and how we are doing.

From Airlift, via Bruce. Sorry for the short notice on the first one. Noon, June 7, a discussion of seven swing House seats here in California. Register Here.

On June 20, 5:00 pm, Simon Rosenberg on Nevada and Georgia. Rosenberg was one of few nationally-known gurus to downplay the 2022 Red Wave, which he correctly predicted would be more of a Red Puddle. Register Here .

(Our Michael Feggans link, which is below, is still active for contributions!)

To the Janowitz/Lazarus Giving Circle,

Friends, we are fundraising for only one campaign this year. 

Flipping the Virginia House of Delegates back to the Democrats this November will help protect reproductive rights in Virginia and help gather momentum for 2024. Democrats hold the majority in the Virginia Senate. Flipping two House seats will give Democrats control of the House to act together with the Senate as a bulwark against Youngkin.

Join us in supporting Michael Feggans (House District 97), a veteran who grew up in the district. The ground game he is building is exactly how Democrats will win in 2024. All donations [ActBlue link] go directly to his campaign. With thanks from us and from everyone working on Michael’s campaign! If you have any questions, or trouble with the link, let us know. 

Naomi and Andy

The thermometer is currently at $275.

Usual place. I don’t have much to present yet, although the rumored debt deal may provide fodder by tomorrow. Others may have material. And I have purchased a bag of Jordanian potato chips for snack.

Bruce opened with a list of potential speakers from Cal, whom I won’t list in case they reject us. Also, books he has read or is planning to read.

Highlight was a Zoom with Michael Feggans, campaigning for Virginia House of Delegates District 97 (part of Virginia Beach). Our Act Blue page for him is here. Our plan is to raise $3500. I can’t get the thermometer to embed until a complete re-vamp of the web site. Bill committed to in-person canvassing in November. The rest of us can donate, write postcards, and phone bank. First time visitor Steve gave us a phone bank pep talk; he loves doing it.

Next meeting in two weeks, in sync with the Turkish election run-off.