And the winner is...Tom Geoghegan! (Please donate at bottom, not top.)

by Bob Fertik, Caroline Cole, and others

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Please join us for a Pre-Oscars Fundraising Party to help make progressive candidate Tom Geoghegan the Democratic nominee to replace Rahm Emanuel in Congress in Illinois.

When: Sunday, February 22, 7-9 p.m. (A free Drinking Liberally Oscars watching party will follow.)
Where: The Tank, 354 West 45th St., New York, New York
Ticket prices:

  • Nominee: $35 (Also gets you 1 free wine/beer voucher.)
  • Winner: $100 (Also gets you 3 free wine/beer vouchers and a raffle entry to win tickets to the Best Movie winner!)
  • Lifetime Achievement Winner: $250 (Also gets you 3 drink vouchers, 3 raffle entries, and you'll be listed as honorary co-host of the event.)

Tom Geoghegan is a famed labor lawyer who wrote legendary pro-worker books like "Which Side Are You On?" He will deliver a live welcome greeting at 7:30 p.m. EST via video from Chicago. If you can't attend, please give what you can anyway.

David Sirota calls Tom "one of the greatest living progressives in America." The Nation wrote "Tom could be the next Paul Wellstone" and "Geoghegan´s platform should be a model for Democrats in the post-meltdown era." The new Progressive Change Campaign Committee made Tom its first supported candidate.

The election is March 3, and Tom is the insurgent populist in a crowded field of 12 candidates. Here's a video of Tom describing his economic priorities (filmed the morning after a Netroots fundraiser in DC):

Host Committee: Naomi Wolf, Bob Fertik and Antonia Stolper, Caroline Louise Cole, Justin Krebs, Adam Green and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Tim Carpenter and Progressive Democrats of America, Laura Flanders, Jonathan Tasini, Frances Anderson, Debra Cooper, Bernadette Evangelist, Sharon Lynch, Jeffrey Feldman, Elana Levin, Jeff Cohen, Mimi Kennedy, Diane Shamis


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Thanks for supporting Tom Geoghegan for Congress. Please chip in $35, $100, or $250 to attend the event on Sunday, February 22, 7-9 p.m. at the Tank. (See ticket levels up above.)

Tom is a bold progressive running for Rahm Emanuel’s House seat (IL-05). He literally “wrote the book” on the modern American labor movement and would be a strong champion for progressive economic policies in Congress.

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TIP JAR. Any contributions, most appreciated.

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’s 2008 House campaigns, and the co-inventor of RSS and Reddit.

The PCCC has already been profiled in the Huffington Post, written about in the National Journal, and endorsed by OpenLeft. Rep. Tom Perriello says, "It’s a tremendously experienced group who have seen what works and what doesn’t work." OpenLeft's Chris Bowers calls the PCCC “an exciting new piece of progressive infrastructure.” Digby writes, “This is an essential component of progressive politics.”

YOU CAN HELP. Your contribution in this early start-up stage will go a long way. Can you chip in today?

Raised on this page: 1 25
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