Kick-Off Tour - Big Success

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Subj: Kick-Off Tour - Big Success
Date: 10/15/2003 16:49:29 Pacific Daylight Time
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Too bad for the national media pundits who've wished the Kucinich
campaign would just go away...because Kucinich for President has surged in recent weeks. Other campaigns have seen their fundraising decline; ours is growing!

EXCITING KICK-OFF TOUR
The tour that began in Cleveland with the formal announcement of
candidacy and headed to 10 cities in 3 days has been a smash success.
Large enthusiastic crowds have greeted the candidate -- Minnesota Public Radio estimated last night's Minneapolis crowd at 2,000! Local news coverage has been decent, with perhaps millions of new people learning about our campaign. Along the way, Dennis was joined and supported by such well-known figures as Ani DiFranco, Studs Terkel, Mimi Kennedy and Dr. Patch Adams.

EXCITING $$ NEWS
Unlike other campaigns that are in decline, the Kucinich campaign today announced an increase in fundraising -- $1.65 million this quarter (up from last quarter's $1.54 million). We raised nearly $1 million in September alone! With an average donation of $72, the vast majority of our funds will be federally matched. A chunk of September's funds came from the Peace Day parties, showing that house party fundraising plus Internet fundraising is the wave of the future. As a grassroots campaign with a huge volunteer base, Kucinich for President doesn't need to equal other campaigns dollar for dollar.

EXCITING ENDORSEMENTS
Endorsements keep rolling in -- from Democratic leaders such as New
Mexico Public Regulation Commissioner E. Shirley Baca (who praised
Kucinich for "standing up to large utility companies") to Green Party
leaders like Winona LaDuke ("Dennis is not a Green, but he is Green in
his heart.")

A top Minnesota Democrat is State Senate Majority Leader John Hottinger; asked by reporters why he was endorsing a candidate said to have little chance of winning, Hottinger replied: "It was oft said about Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, too. Ideas launch candidates, not public relations." Another endorsing Minnesota State Senator, John Marty, praised Kucinich as coming "from the same mold" as the late Sen. Paul Wellstone.

DONATE to keep our campaign surging: toll-free [phone] or online
https://www.kucinich.us/contribute.php

SEE/READ DENNIS' SPEECH
http://www.kucinich.us/announce-news.htm

HEAR ACTRESS MIMI KENNEDY'S tour report:
http://www.kucinich.us/announce-updates.htm

READ MINN. PUBLIC RADIO on Minneapolis rally:
http://news.mpr.org/features/2003/10/15_helmsm_kucinich/

For more info: http://www.kucinich.us/








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