DAY EIGHT - CRISTINA HALE
Day Eight | Cristina Hale | IN-05
324 Sawbuck Patriots | $3315 pledged today | $24,205 donated overall
Team:
THE SITUATION: IN-05 is found on the north side of Indianapolis, and encompasses nearby suburbs, as well. It's very white. It's the wealthiest congressional district in Indiana. Last five presidentials: Bush, Bush, McCain, Romney, Trump. It's been represented by Susan Brooks since 2013 - a leading Republican party official who has been trusted with heading up recruitment efforts for the National Republican Congressional Committee. Her supreme confidence in the future of her party, and her outstanding efforts to recruit awesome Republicans to defeat Democrats across the nation is at such an absolute peak, that she announced she was quitting Congress.
(Narrator voice: "Bah-dum-PAH!")
Also, this district's underlying conservatism is shifting. While Bush won with 69 and 71 percent, Trump took the district with only 53 percent of the vote.
THE COMPETITION: Recruited, no doubt, by Brooks herself, is Indiana State Senator Victoria Spartz, who is promoting herself to the voters of the fightin' fifth district as "PROVEN. QUALIFIED. CONSERVATIVE." She was a founding member of the Hamilton County Tea Party, and strongly supports the Second Amendment. Born in the Ukraine and a US citizen since 2006, she's banging the "I've seen socialism and the Democrats are socialists" drum pretty hard.
OUR CANDIDATE: Cristina Hale. A former reporter and executive with Kiwanis International, she raised her son as a single parent, and was only the second Latina elected to a state office in Indiana - where she authored sixty passing bills, every one with bipartisan support. While she's running in Indiana, a generally conservative place (hello, Mike Pence!) where many of you who are receiving these emails and making these contributions would be burned as witches for our political beliefs, Hale is not hiding behind some faux-conservatism in order to win - her top three website priorities are about the environment, children, and access to health care.
Speaker Pelosi has made this open seat a priority, and is strongly supporting Hale; the national political analysts are rating this district as a slight Republican lean or a toss-up; Hale is a vibrant and compelling candidate whose values aren't crossways with the district. THE MATH SAYS SHE CAN WIN.
Sawbuck Patriots, it’s go time: click HERE and send $10 (or more!) to Cristina's campaign. Our collective effort will invest $3315 today.
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