Virtual House Party for Joe Donnelly-IN 2nd Cong District

[dray178355]

Well, here goes.
Fellow DU'ers.....

I'm hosting (along with two of my fellow Hoosier Deaniacs in South Bend, Kathy and Scott) a "Virtual House Party" for Joe Donnelly's "World's Largest Congressional House Party Campaign" who is our candidate in the 2nd congressional district of the great state of Indiana and the home district of our wonderful Governor, Joe Kernan. We will be hosting this party throughout the month of June and today is our kickoff. All of the funds raised will go towards our grassroots organizing, voter registration drive, door-to-door canvassing and GOTV effort.

We three are "just" volunteers for Joe but we have gotten to know him and his wife Jill over the last few months and have grown to love and respect them both. They are truly down-to-earth and fun loving while at the same time, respect and care very deeply for the people in the 2nd district. Joe is a terrific candidate and one-heck-of-a-nice guy. He is meeting the people of our district one-person-at-a-time. I know we can take this district back for the Dems from Bush's buddy Chris Chocola and send him back to the golf course.

I would also like to invite all of you here at DU (in and out of the district) to meet Joe and Jill if you possibly can . At the end of the "World's Largest Congressional House Party" campaign there will be a district-wide celebration on the evening of June 30 at an undisclosed location in South Bend, to celebrate our efforts. I can disclose this location at any time if you e-mail me.

I'm also hoping to have Joe post a few words and answer your questions at some point, but of course I'll have to ask him first.

Joe's web site is http://www.joedonnellyforcongress.com and if you do would like to make a donation to our house party, please indicate that it is for our house party by adding .13 cents to your donation.

Joe's campaign is kicking off the district-wide "World's Biggest Congressional House Party" today. If you would like to host an event or just talk to a few friends and raise some money for Joe you can contact them at [e-mail] and put "Debbie sent me" in the subject line.

If you have any questions please feel free to e-mail me or just post a note here.

Thanks for your time!

Deb

Just Joe 04......Donnelly and Kernan.

PS-Salin, if you happen to read this a big "hello again" from fellow "Bush-Protest-Veteran" Deb in South Bend.







[salin]

1. A big hellow to you!

:hi: Was hoping that I would "see" you around here.

The district wide house party sounds like a great idea. Will he be able to "call in" and speak to the folks at the parties (by speaker phone?) - I understand with the Dean parties that aspect helped build voter commitment and excitement.

I am guessing that ole bush won't have as much time to come to the district as he did for Chocola the first time around - which hopefully will depress the enthusiasm on that side of the equation.

Let us know how you House Party goes, and how the whole District Wide houseparty goes. If I were up there - he would have my vote and some of my time!

[dray178355]

2. Hi, back at ya'

Salin,
I just typed this huge post and lost it, so I will do a nicer reply around lunch time. My pc has a virus and I'm having all kinds of trouble trying to keep in touch with everyone.

I'll have to write you at lunch from work and hopefully, I'll have my new laptop this weekend so things are looking up. Well, not new but better than what I have.

Deb

[dray178355]

3. Check out a preview of Joe's new web site

http://www.joedonnellyforcongress.com/preview/

Much better than the other, I think. It's not quite finished yet. Looks like it's going to be fun!

Deb

[salin]

4. How is the campaign going?

the virtual house party strategy? Hope it is going well!

[dray178355]

5. Hi Salin!

Sorry I didn't post sooner. I acutally shouldn't even have tried to do my VHP this month because my personal life is in utter chaos. I'm trying to move, work on the campaign, hold a full time job...all at the same time. Can't get into my apartment until after the 5th and I need to be out of my place by the End of the Month. So I'll stay with family and friends. LOL.

The house party for the campaign is going extremely well. Check out the corn stalk at the re-vamped web site. http://www.joedonnellyforcongress.com They have our totals up now. We have a big celebration at Brian's Piano Bar on the 30th and hopefully that night will bring us to our goal.

I'm the veteran's liason for Joe's campaign so I've been really busy trying to get my s**t together. I need to get info on all the ALP's and VFW's, etc. in the district together, commanders at each and arrange meet-in's for Joe. He's such a good guy. I can't stress that enough. He's the kind of people we need in politics. Devoted to the constitution and average Janes and Joes. I'm very proud to be working for him. I will post more when I get settled. Hope this isn't to personal for this forum.