Towne for Congress Issues the $20,000 Money Bomb Week Challenge

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The campaign is in serious need of funds to enable us to spread the message, and I have a challenge for supporters. If supporters raise $20,000 or more between Valentine's Day (it's a rEVOLution, after all!!) and February 20, I will donate an additional $5,000 of my own money. This is a significant amount for me personally, and is not a candidate loan but a donation. The challenge is if campaign supporters and donors are willing to make a significant contribution towards saving our country, I will do so with my wallet as well as with my time. During the week, grassroot supporters are holding two money bombs, and totals from both these will count towards the weekly total. Updates on the totals will be found here on February 15, and in the comment thread below.

Through December 31, 2009, 387 donors have raised $16,400 for the campaign, including over $2,000 from myself. As a small independent campaign, we do not have a fundraising coordinator, so all funds raised has come from grassroot supporters in the district and nationwide. The median donation is about $25, so no donation is too small.

$16,400 may not seem like a lot compared to Republocrat totals, but it appears to be the highest total raised by any independent for the 2010 US House race per the FEC. The funds have been spent as best as possible given my level of political experience (which was zero back in May 2009 when the campaign began). The results – one of the Republocrat's poll reports the campaign already at 8% in January, and likely 40% is all that is necessary to win. While the only poll that counts will be on Election Day in November, based on supporter feedback, many people will be turning out who have not troubled to vote in years.

Campaign volunteers have distributed over 20,000 flyers to residences over the district in the past two months, and the number of supporters spreading the word in the district grows daily. Several half-page newspaper ads like the one below were placed in January newspapers and over a hundred people, most of them completely new, have attended Towne Halls to ask questions. Hundreds of yard signs are up all over the district to promote name recognition. This past week I appeared on the locally well-known Bobby Gunther Walsh radio show, and appeared on FOX News with Judge Napolitano for the third time. I have met and interviewed with every person who has asked, in addition to going door-to-door all over the district - though I have a lot more to cover :)

The total of $25,000 was not picked out of thin air. It is how much I believe is necessary to wage an effective campaign against the Republocrats well into this election year. The money will be used for additional advertising, to fund campaign events, door-to-door campaigning, and to assure ballot access when signatures are permitted to be collected starting March 10.

JAKE TOWNE “FIRE CAKE” MONEY BOMB, Monday, February 15th

During the Pennsylvania winter of 1777-78, Continental soldiers got their nourishment from “fire cakes” - a tasteless mixture of flour and water – at Valley Forge. February 15, 2010 is the 278th anniversary of George Washington's birthday.

The campaign has paid special attention to veterans and to follow the foreign policy of George Washington outlined in his 1796 farewell address that guided our country for most of the following century. See Our Veterans plank, Iraq War plank, and Afghanistan War plank. Thanks to legalizeliberty of dailypaul.com for organizing this money bomb!!!
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