DAY FORTY-NINE - COLLIN PETERSON
Day Forty-nine | Collin Peterson | WI-07
788 Sawbuck Patriots | $8516 pledged today | $456,643 donated overall
Team:
THE SITUATION: WI-07. Western Wisconsin, bordering North Dakota, South Dakota, and Canada. Super-rural, towns you haven't heard of unless you're from WI or MN or the Dakotas, probably. Fargo is just over the border.
This district always votes for the R presidential candidate. This is a conservative district. And this is a place where we can help defend a more conservative Democrat (who's been hanging in there for a while) - because it's always a place where the Rs have a shot at picking one of our gang off.
(So we're doing the firewall strategy today, basically.)
THE COMPETITION: Michelle Fishbach. Former WI state senator, former WI lieutenant governor. Both at the same time, for a while - when she was appointed LG, she refused to resign from her Senate seat (probably because the Rs had a one-seat majority in the Senate at the time - or perhaps that was just a coincidence?)
(Narrator voice: "That was not a coincidence.")
She resigned when it became clear that she didn't have a legal leg to stand on, but the legal battle over this stunt cost the taxpayers $150K.
Donald Trump has enthusiastically endorsed her, proudly touting his support of "Nicole" Fishbach, because these guys are soopor-goood at poorfreading impotent porlitical docurments..
OUR CANDIDATE: Collin Peterson, the incumbent in this district. He's aligned with the Blue Dog Democrats (read as more conservative than most), which is the only kind of D that can get elected in this territory. And he's actually a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party (just like Ilhan Omar), which is what Ds are called in this state.
Trained as a CPA, Peterson is also a passingly decent guitarist (who's performed with Willie Nelson), and he's a small business owner who ascended to Chair of the House Agriculture Committee (his second round in this role). He's an old hand in Congress, knows everyone, and votes with the D caucus far more than his opponent would. FAR more.
FAR more.
The Republican registration advantage in this district makes it a regularly contested one. Peterson has done a great job winning in the past, but the Trump frenzy amongst some of his constituents is making it a more complex race this year. And importantly, with Wisconsin in play as one of the Trump statewide targets, the more Ds and independents Peterson can pull out to the polls to vote for him, the better Joe Biden's chances are in Wisconsin.
THE MATH SAYS COLLIN CAN WIN. (And he is the 2020 Minnesota Milk Producers Legislator of the Year, so there's that!)
Sawbuck Patriots, it's go time: click HERE to send $10 (or more!) to Collin's campaign. Our collective effort will invest $8516 today.
Thank you!
- Alex / www.sawbuckpatriots.com
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