Thirty Days Hath September | Day 29 | $20 to Betsy Markey

Every day of September (almost) I'm making a contribution to a new candidate, announcing it here on Daily Kos, and encouraging you to join me.  If one person matches my contribution on my ActBlue page, I'll double my contribution; if ten people match it, I'll triple.  Details here.

Wow!  Dan Seals has a lot of fans here.  Yesterday I followed up on madame defarge's suggestion and added him to my list - and seventeen more people contributed!  Thanks, all - that feels great.  Dan, here's $40 more from me.  Many, many thanks, Madame Defarge, for rallying the troops.

On this penultimate day of the fundraising season, I'm endorsing a second candidate from Colorado's 4th district.  Follow me below the fold to find out why.

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When I endorsed Angie Paccione on the third day of this monthlong adventure, I got a nice message from Betsy Markey's husband Jim asking if I had considered Betsy's candidacy.  I'm sorry to say I hadn't - hadn't even realized that Angie was running in a contested primary.  I mulled it over, did a little research, and decided that, based on the little I knew, I wanted to stick with Angie - and pay somewhat closer attention to future races to avoid (inadvertent) involvement in primaries.  I'm not really comfortable playing a role in choosing the "best" Democrat in another district (Donna Edwards being a very notable and carefully considered exception to this rule).  Anyway, I passed on Betsy, having cast my lot with Angie, based largely on name recognition.

I liked - and like - a lot of Betsy's positions; I like that she has recieved a lot of endorsements from Colorado - and national - Democrats.  She appears to be a dedicated public servant and an energetic campaigner.

Well, yesterday Angie gave me a reason to endorse Betsy.  She's bowing out of the primary.  I still think she would, because of name recognition, have had an easier time defeating Marilyn Musgrave (on Karl Rove's "priority defense" list).  But I think Betsy can do it, and I think she might very well be a better Congresswoman than Angie would have been.

So I'm happy to contribute $20 to Betsy Markey today; won't you please join me?  A surge of funds for her campaign before the third quarter ends would be great.

Here's Betsy's website.

Here's my ActBlue page, Where My Mouth Is.