 We're taking it to the Tea Party Ten. Not a day goes by that doesn't demand accountability for Tea Party extremists in Congress; whether it's Frank Guinta and Joe Walsh presiding over the all-male Congressional panel attacking women's health1, or Allen West invoking the prospect of "a second Holocaust" to push for war with Iran.2 So today I'm pleased to report that the CREDO SuperPAC's first organizers just hit the ground in Minnesota and Illinois, and next week they're getting started in Wisconsin and Florida.
Once our lead organizers get up and running, we're going to hire dozens more organizers to build a volunteer army in each of the ten districts. But how big we can go, and how soon we get there, depends on you. If everyone reading this gave $5 we'd have the funds to hire every organizer we need and pay them through November. Can you chip in now? Local activists in these districts are energized by this local, grassroots accountability campaign. Two weeks ago Becky Bond and I were greeted by a great crowd of folks at our first campaign meeting in Schaumburg, Illinois, in Joe Walsh's district — and had great meetings with committed, fed-up folks in Ames, Iowa, where Steve King is running for re-election, in Chip Cravaack's district in Duluth, Minnesota, and Sean Duffy's district in Wausau, Wisconsin. We heard a lot of the same words come up in talking about these Tea Party Republicans, and most of them weren't very nice. "Idiot," "extremist," "embarrassment," "unfit." These folks couldn't wait to go to work. But outside of the meetings — when we were having breakfast at the 4:30 am coffee shop in Chippewa Falls, WI, or checking into the motel in Savage, MN — we met some folks who weren't as tuned in to politics. A lot of people don't realize they are represented by some of the worst of the worst, the Tea Partiers who are leading the assaults on women and the environment. Those are the voters we need to reach, and this is the value of building a campaign of neighbor to neighbor organizing, to give local activists the tools to get the truth out there, in a way that's going to be most effective. That's how we can to beat these guys, but this kind of campaign takes time, energy and money, so we need your help. Blasting a district with TV ads can be funded just in the last month of a campaign. But a strong, volunteer field campaign takes months to build. That's why we're starting now. Chip in $5 to help us build the campaign to take down the Tea Party Ten. Take 'em down, Mudcat Arnold, Campaign Manager
CREDO SuperPAC 1. "Rep. Joe Walsh Says Birth Control Issue "Not About Women" Chicagoist, February, 17, 2012
2. "Allen West Pushing for War, Says 'Iran Is as Dangerous as Nazi Germany, Broward New Times, March 7, 2012
To learn more about all of the Tea Party Extremists in the Tea Party Ten, click here. Paid for by CREDO SuperPAC, 101 Market St. Suite 700, San Francisco CA 94105, not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. | 
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