LeGrow campaign
Subject: LeGrow campaign
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 10/6/10, 13:20
To: Barry Eisler <barryeisler@mac.com>

Howdy-

Hope everything's well. I keep seeing ads for your book on all of my favorite blogs. 

 I'm now serving as an operative for the Wynne LeGrow campaign in Virginia's 4th congressional district; Enlighten the Vote, the PAC for which I serve as dir of comm, has been assisting him in raising money but they're really not good at doing that, so I'm stepping in to do so with my own resources (and will be offering free communications assistance to other campaigns for candidates of which I approve in the future). LeGrow is an admitted atheist who's up against a Republican incumbent who's a member of the Prayer Caucus and who of course has taken full advantage of LeGrow's candor. Nonetheless, LeGrow has a decent chance of winning; the district went for Obama in the last election, and LeGrow has managed to change the minds of local religious leaders who were initially put off by his lack of faith, simply by meeting and talking with them. It's also a low-dollar race in which a couple of thousand dollars can provide for relatively large ad buys; the campaign was hoping to get $2,000 out of Enlighten the Vote in a month of fundraising. I'm going to write up some materials today, including an e-mail appeal and some posts for Daily Kos and HuffPo; let me know if you'd be willing to forward an e-mail appeal to any contacts you might have who would be willing to consider donating or setting up phone banks in such a race as this, or if you have any other ideas.

Also, Project PM is finally getting off the ground thanks largely to some new recruits; our website is being constructed, we're setting up a wiki to serve various other purposes, and we've got Charles Johnson and a few others to handle the software we've been planning for the blog network as well as our distributed think-tank network. We're also launching our science journalism improvement project this week starting with an announcement by way of my column for Skeptical Inquirer; I'll send you a link when that goes up; if you know any freelancers or scientists (or those who work in science-related fields) who might be interested in participating, please let me know.

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Regards,

Barrett Brown
512-560-2302