Paul's Campaign Report

We've got 'em on the run!

Well, my primary challenge against my incumbent, Republican, pro-abortion state representative is going very well. With less than five days left before election day next Tuesday, we're running radio ads, we're putting out yard signs, sending out literature, going door-to-door, making robo-calls, and attracting media attention. We have an impressive list of endorsements, we've been interviewed on the radio, we've walked in parades, and made a lot of friends.

Our local pro-life organizations have really stepped up to the plate, as well.

And my opponent is nervous. First, she put out a mailer accusing me of lying about her, but never mentioned what lie I was alleged to have told.

Now she has a new mailer in which, for the first time ever, she self-identifies as a Republican, and is trying to pass herself off as a conservative. I don't think it's going to work. The newspapers, in their coverage of this race, have been very clear that I'm the pro-life, pro-traditional-marriage candidate, and she's the social "moderate". In fact, there's nothing moderate about her social positions at all. The main local paper, in endorsing her, even called me a "thoughtful candidate." And they also got her to admit for the first time her willingness to support same-sex civil unions.

And I've learned that within two weeks after the primary, the Illinois FOCA bill will be introduced in the Illinois House again. This is a terrible bill, which my opponent voted for last year. I think the best way to defeat it this year is if the House members see that a legislator who voted for it last year lost her seat over it.

There's just one problem, and I'm sure you've guessed from the graphic below what it is. I need more money to finish this campaign.

It was the readers of this blog who came through for me first, back in July and August, when I was just getting started. Now, I need your help again.

No amount is too big, and none is too small, but there is, I'm sorry to say, a certain time pressure about the situation, a feeling of -- well, much as I hate to say it -- urgency in my appeal.

I know you're not rich, but $50 right now, from enough of you, could mean a great deal.

What do you say?