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  <title>Mr. Geoghegan Comes to Washington (Netroots Fundraiser for Tom!)</title>
  <author>Progressive Change Campaign Committee</author>
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  <blurb>[[youtube: http://www.youtube.com/v/OiHG4QOmmEI]]

&lt;p&gt;The Progressive Change Campaign Committee started this ActBlue page for a January 26th netroots fundraising event for Tom Geoghegan in Washington DC. We initially raised $3,800 online and in-person -- and Tom taped the above video thanking everyone.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But since the event, over $1,000 more has come in online! &lt;/strong&gt;We&amp;#39;ve raised about $5,000 for Tom -- enough to fund 2 field staffers, plus some. Can you keep the momentum going? Every $2,000 we raise, another field staffer can be put on the ground to get out the vote!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Tom is a famed labor lawyer who wrote legendary pro-worker books like &amp;quot;Which Side Are You On?&amp;quot; David Sirota calls him &amp;quot;one of the greatest living progressives in America&amp;quot; and a writer at &lt;em&gt;The Nation&lt;/em&gt; wrote &amp;quot;Tom could be the next Paul Wellstone.&amp;quot; The new PCCC made Tom its first supported candidate.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please chip in what you can today. The election is March 3, so every dollar helps!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; </blurb>
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      <pageblurb>&lt;p&gt;Thanks for supporting Tom Geoghegan for Congress. Each attendee at the PCCC&amp;apos;s Washington, D.C. event chipped in $30 to help Tom win--some chipped in $50 or even $200. Can you give what you can to help Tom win today?

&lt;p&gt;Tom is a bold progressive running for Rahm Emanuel&amp;rsquo;s House seat (IL-05). He literally &amp;ldquo;wrote the book&amp;rdquo; on the modern American labor movement and would be a strong champion for progressive economic policies in Congress.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</pageblurb>
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        <displayname>PCCC - Progressive Change Campaign Committee</displayname>
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      <pageblurb>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TIP JAR. Any contributions, most appreciated.&lt;/strong&gt;

&lt;p&gt;After donating to Tom, please consider adding a contribution to the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), a new PAC set up to help bold progressive candidates run first-class campaigns and win. It is led former MoveOn staff, union organizers, staff from Darcy Burner and Tom Perriello&amp;rsquo;s 2008 House campaigns, and the co-inventor of RSS and Reddit.

&lt;p&gt;The PCCC has already been profiled in the Huffington Post, written about in the National Journal, and endorsed by OpenLeft. Chris Bowers calls the PCCC &amp;ldquo;an exciting new piece of progressive infrastructure&amp;rdquo; and says &amp;ldquo;it&amp;rsquo;s experienced team knows what it is doing in a campaign setting.&amp;rdquo; Rep. Tom Perriello says, &amp;quot;It&amp;rsquo;s a tremendously experienced group who have seen what works and what doesn&amp;rsquo;t work.&amp;quot; Digby writes, &amp;ldquo;This is an essential component of progressive politics.&amp;rdquo;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YOU CAN HELP. Your contribution in this early start-up stage will go a long way. Can you chip in today?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</pageblurb>
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