While most of us are enjoying summer activities, our county party candidates already are walking, attending house parties, organizing volunteers, meeting with their campaign committee, etc.  And the county party has been active as well.  We put together a beautiful float for the Freedom Festival parade.  We have hired campaign interns.  We're training candidates. We're fundraising and organizing volunteers and planning activities for the fall.

You may remember last election the county party ran advertisements in the Daily Herald, had signs up around the valley, conducted polls, and gave money directly to the candidates.

This year we're doing even more, as you will see.

Would you give a little to build the party and make the Democratic party once again a viable organization in Utah County?  Would you give a little to assist these candidates to win this year?

If you could give a monthly donation of $25, 10, or even 5, that would help us with signs, ads, campaign interns, etc.   Or if you just gave a one time donation, that would help us.

The Republicans have plenty of money to run their campaigns.  They send out mailers, place newspaper ads, give money to schools to gain teachers' support, donate money to various groups also to solicit support, and even hand over money to each other's campaigns.  During the 2008 election, they had about $150,000 for campaigns.  They're on track to do that again in 2010.

We raised approximately $80,000 in the 2008 election.  We spend our money more wisely.  That's how we increased the share of the Democratic vote by 50 percent in 2008, even though we were outspent 2-1.  

But we still need enough money to run aggressive campaigns.  Campaigning is not cheap today.  Money is needed for the brochures, mailers, ads, signs, etc. that candidates must have to counter the Republicans' attempts to define them.  All of that will be happening again this year and we need the money to blunt their efforts.

Please give to help the Utah County Democratic Party run competitive campaigns this year.
You can donate by going to utahcountydems.com and clicking on the "Contribute with Actblue" button.

Give now so you and your children can live in a two-party county where all of us have a choice of candidates to represent us.  

Give now so you and your children can be represented by common sense people who listen rather than arrogant extremist ideologues.

Give now so you can say you made the difference.

Give a little now and get a lot for the future.