Growth, Expansion in 2024 - Hopium Endorses Tom Keen and Tom Suozzi - Let's Do This People!!!!
Let's Keep Our Momentum Going In These 2 Critical Early 2024 Elections!!!!!!
Friends,
In a post I sent to you earlier this week, I discussed my initial thinking about how this community might approach the 2024 elections. I talked about how our guiding sentiment will be about growth and expansion, going on offense and taking stuff away from Republicans - as we did all across the country in 2023, together. We kicked off our 2024 program with an event with Anderson Clayton, the dynamic new Democratic Party Chair of North Carolina, and a pitch to help her turn this purple state blue in 2024.
Today I am asking the Hopium community to ensure that we keep our electoral winning streak going in 2024 by working together to take away a critical Florida state house seat in January and the Santos Congressional seat in February. As we did in Wisconsin, as we did in Jacksonville, as we did in Ohio and as we did Virginia, we can win these two elections and start off 2024 with big loud statement about what 2024 is going to be about - winning.
Here is some initial information on how you can donate, learn more and volunteer for these two critical races:
Tom Keen - Florida HD-35 - January 16th Special Election
Donate - Learn More - Phone Bank - Text Bank - Phone Bank w/Maxwell Frost
Save The Date - Dec 20th evening - An event with Tom Keen, Florida State House Leader Fentrice Driskell and Others
Tom Suozzi - NY-3 - February 13th Special Election
Donate - Learn More - Get Updates - Make Calls - Write Postcards
If you represent a grassroots organization and want to talk to either campaign about how your community can best support their efforts please email me at simonwdc@substack.com and I can connect you to the right person. The Keen campaign has a mobilize site up now up for remote phone banking. The Suozzi campaign should have their remote volunteer program up soon, and I will let folks know when it’s active. I know many organizations are already up and running in both elections - thank you all!
My goal is to raise $50,000 from this community for each campaign as soon as we can. If you are planning on giving, I hope you will give as soon as you can. These elections are very soon, and the earlier the campaigns receive resources the more of an impact they will have. Just like voting on day 1 matters so much to a campaign, early money matters much more than late money, so please consider giving this month - or as soon as you can - to both campaigns if you are planning on giving.
Let’s do this people!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Simon
More good news on the economic and campaign front!!
HCR reported these comments by the president in Los Vegas discussing his $8 billion rail bill.
"In a speech in Las Vegas, Nevada, announcing the rail plan, Biden called out his predecessor, who “always talked about infrastructure week. Four years of infrastructure week, but it failed. He failed,” Biden said. “On my watch, instead of having infrastructure week, America is having infrastructure decade.” “Trump just talks the talk. We walk the walk,” he said. “Look. He likes to say America is a failing nation. Frankly, he doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about. I see shovels in the ground, cranes in the sky, people hard at work rebuilding America together.” Go Joe!!! We're with you 100%
Suozzi has volunteer kick off meetings tomorrow. Here’s info for the one in Queens:
Here’s the location of the Suozzi Queens campaign volunteer kickoff meeting this Sunday, 12/10, at 1pm. Please invite your fellow activists.
Location: Bay Terrace Shopping Center, 210-27 26th Avenue (former Weight Watchers near PM Pediatrics and the movie theater).
This is a working session to discuss the upcoming campaign and what we can do to help. This is not a fundraising event.