{"id":1527,"date":"2003-07-27T15:26:20","date_gmt":"2003-07-28T05:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/27\/bushcheney-vs-dean\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:32:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:32:35","slug":"bushcheney-vs-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/27\/bushcheney-vs-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush\/Cheney vs. Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13936,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.deanforamerica.com\\\/dtvbc&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/deanforamerica.com\\\/dtvbc&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13937,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blog.deanforamerica.com\\\/archives\\\/000780.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13938,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blog.deanforamerica.com\\\/archives\\\/000808.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deanforamerica.com\/dtvbc\" title=\"Contribute to the Dean vs. Bush\/Cheney drive!\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deanforamerica.com\/images\/dtvbc.gif\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is flat-out amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, it was announced that tomorow, Monday the 28^th^, there would be a special fundraising dinner in Columbia, South Carolina to benefit the Bush\/Cheney re-election campaign. This dinner is a \\$2000 per plate fundraiser, expected to raise \\$250,000 (from 125 people).<\/p>\n<p>The good folks over at the Dean campaign decided to turn this into a challenge, and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.deanforamerica.com\/archives\/000780.html\" title=\"The bat is back!\">brought back the bat<\/a>&#8220;. Their goal was to see if in three days &#8212; this weekend, from Saturday through Monday at midnight &#8212; they could match that \\$250,000 goal through their grassroots fundraising efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Today, just before 11pm eastern time, with a full 24 hours left before the Monday midnight deadline, they <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.deanforamerica.com\/archives\/000808.html\" title=\"$250,000 and counting!\">hit the \\$250,000 mark<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  As of 11 pm EDT, <strong>4,629<\/strong> Americans have contributed <strong>\\$250,733.20<\/strong> to the Dean Team vs.\u00a0Bush-Cheney Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>  We know that many of you have waited to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deanforamerica.com\/dtvbc\" title=\"Contribute to the Dean vs. Bush\/Cheney drive!\">contribute<\/a> until tomorrow, the day of Cheney&#8217;s fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p>  You&#8217;ll notice the second bat doesn&#8217;t have a goal. It will be up to you and thousands of other Americans to fill that bat up to whatever amount you can by midnight, tomorrow. We&#8217;ve matched the Bush-Cheney fundraising machine. Tomorrow, let&#8217;s see by how much we can surpass them.<\/p>\n<p>  And wait til you see what we plan on doing with the additional money you help raise tomorrow. It&#8217;s top secret, but we can tell you this &#8212; it will surprise everyone.<\/p>\n<p>  We&#8217;ll be giving you half hour updates all day tomorrow, beginning at 8 am.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>This<\/em> is what it&#8217;s all about. Not \\$2000 a head dinners so the fat cats can buy their &#8220;special interests&#8221; by keeping the status quo, but by people all across the country giving what they can, because they believe in a candidate, and because they want to make a change for the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what it&#8217;s all about. Not $2000 a head dinners so the fat cats can buy their &#8220;special interests&#8221; by keeping the status quo, but by people all across the country giving what they can, because they believe in a candidate, and because they want to make a change for the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}