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Written by: Tegan R on Aug 1, 2008 12:18 PM EDT

Linked to campaigns: Larry Kissell for Congress

(Disclaimer: This post is from a Larry Kissell campaign email. I do not work for Kissell's campaign, but I am an intern at Democracy for America.)

In 5 minutes you can help raise $100,000 for Larry Kissell who is, as you know, a full time school teacher running for Congress. That's right, in just 5 minutes you can help Larry Kissell catch up to his opponent in fundraising. How? We have been challenged by the national party to activate the most volunteers today. The campaign with the highest number of active volunteers will win a fundraising message to the DCCC list of more than 3 million people... and raise more than $100,000!

The Kissell campaign won this contest in 2006. With your help again, we can win it this year too.

All you have to do is spend a few minutes making a few quick calls to 8th District voters from www.HelpLarryWin.com.

Thanks so much for your help and please pass this on to anyone else who you think might help.

Leanne Powell
Kissell for Congress
North Carolina's 8th District

Someone Working...for a CHANGE!

He was against it before he was for it

Written by: Tegan R on Aug 1, 2008 12:15 PM EDT

Linked to campaigns: Larry Kissell for Congress

(Disclaimer: This post is from a Larry Kissell campaign email. I do not work for Kissell's campaign, but I am an intern at Democracy for America.)

Robin Hayes said...

"I am flat-out, completely, horizontally opposed to CAFTA," Hayes said on this day 3 years ago.

Then Hayes changed his vote to send North Carolina jobs to Central America after some admitted midnight armtwisting by outgoing President Bush, former speaker Hastert and former Whip Mark Foley...

Please help put this commercial on air with as little as $23 (though we still take $2,300).

Here's how.

Randy Johnston
Kissell for Congress
North Carolina's 8th District

Someone Working...for a CHANGE!

OH - and prove Stuart Rothenberg wrong.

Why do you keep taking baths?

Written by: Tegan R on Jul 31, 2008 3:34 PM EDT

Linked to campaigns: Larry Kissell for Congress

(Disclaimer: This post is from a Larry Kissell campaign email. I do not work for Kissell's campaign, but I am an intern at Democracy for America.)

There's a strong tradition of spiritual revival in the deep South as well as many parts of the U.S. that have suffered the apathy that comes from hard times. An economic depression can be spiritually depressing as well, rendering the best in all of us effectively 'asleep at the wheel' and off course. The promise of HOPE is not some new political buzzword engineered in a focus group for the 2008 elections. Hope is what I learned from my parents, teachers, co-workers, community and growing up in church. Hope is what I now teach my own children, and the very promise of America. Hope is why no matter how we may stray, we all come home to the big tent in the end.

A famous story passed down through the generations of traveling ministries that would often set up their Revival Tents in some of the most economically depressed areas of the deep South goes something like this:
A minister was asked, "Why do you keep having revivals when it doesn't last?"

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