Via e-mail


Dear Leslie:

After over a week of voting and thousands of votes cast on TomHarkin.com for Iowa's best and brightest progressive leaders, I am proud to announce the top 20 House candidates and the top 10 Senate candidates.

For the Iowa State House you nominated: Tom Avenarius (D-32), McKinley Bailey (D-9), Cayle Baresel (D-17), Frank Best (D-87), Ron Fedler (D-91), Gene Ficken (D-23), Elesha Gayman (D-84), Tim Hoy (D-44), Kurt Hubler (D-99), Gretchen Lawyer (D-36), Larry Marek (D-89), Chris Nelson (D-58), Eric Palmer (D-75), Matthew Pfaltzgraf (D-70), Mark Smith (D-43), TJ Templeton (D-3), James Van Bruggen (D-4), Pat Van Zante (D-71), Andrew Wenthe (D-18), Nate Willems (D-29).

For the Iowa State Senate you nominated: Randy Braden (D-20), Swati Dandekar (D-18), Jeff Danielson (D-10), Mike Gronstal (D-50), Mary Jo Wilhelm (D-8), Pam Jochum (D-14), Tom Rielly (D-38), Sharon Savage (D-40), Steve Sodders (D-22), Frank Wood (D-42).

The level of enthusiasm you displayed in the nominating round of our "Building Blue" competition shows that Iowa Democrats are fired up and have the energy we need to win in November.

Now the fun part of our competition really gets under way.





Starting today and ending Tuesday, June 3rd, you and your friends and family can click here to vote for your favorite candidate.





The top 5 vote getters from the House and Senate will each receive a $2,000 donation for their campaigns.

These 10 finalists will then advance to the final round, starting June 4, where you will then pick the winner of a $5,000 contribution.

Thank you for supporting these legislative candidates and congratulations to all of these leaders for their service to the people of Iowa.

Be sure to visit www.TomHarkin.com today to vote for your favorite candidate in the second round. And let's continue building Iowa blue for November.

Sincerely,

Senator Tom Harkin

WOOO HOOO!!!!!!
Kickin' arse!

I'm really excited for you TJ!

by the way, here's the link to vote in the second phase:
http://www.tomharkin.com/action/building-blue

That's great news! (Feels like we've just won)

TJ,

I'm always the last to find out!

Thank you so much, you guys. I can't thank you enough. If I win this, it will be a HUGE DEAL. This is the happiest I've been in a long time!

Once again, here's the linkage:
http://www.tomharkin.com/action/building-blue



THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU ALL!

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just forwarded the email and added a link in the body of an e-mail to every person in the addy books of all 3 of my addresses ...

Netroots grow deep!

I'd like to let you all know ahead of time that I'm about to post a diary on dailykos about this, in case you haven't registered over there yet. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ACT ON KOS UNLESS YOU'VE REGISTERED 24 HRS AHEAD OF TIME!!!

any suggestions? I'll include links to the campaign site, the tom harkin site, and POAC, and point out the reasons why TJ's campaign matters beyond his district. If anyone wants to help, please pass along suggestions.

Let people know that none Americans are eligible to vote? - Lets me vote using my UK postcode anyway.