Announcing Run, Russ, Run...Supporting Feingold in 08!

[pstans]

en. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin has been travelling the nation raising money for other candidates and standing up for his progressive values. Feingold said he wanted to see how his progressive agenda resonated in the midterm elections and he would decide on rather to run for President in 2008 after the elections. Well, it's November 9th, many progressives were elected to the House and the Senate, and "Daffy" Donald Rumsfeld is an unpleasant memory. Now it's time for Russ to run!

Click here to sign up at RunRussRun.com.

We're very pleased to announce the launch of RunRussRun.com, which replaces RussForPresident.com as the national headquarters of the Draft Feingold for President movement.

The new site was developed by Internet activists from 16 states and 5 national constituency groups. We looked very carefully at what worked and what didn't in our state-level organizations, our former national site, and previous presidential draft movements. Emerging technology helped us solve most of the problems we saw, emphasize what worked best, and open up what we think is a new kind of site for on-line activism.

Click here to sign up at RunRussRun.com.

RunRussRun.com gives members access to a wide array of services including: a customized activism road map, interaction with other members across the country, and direct access to free tools for building local and state-level groups and activities. It also features up-to-the-minute news from the Feingold for President state and community blogs, discussion forums, and an option to pledge donations to a future Feingold presidential campaign.

The effort to convince Senator Feingold to make a presidential run traces back to December, 2004 when the first Russ Feingold for President blog was started by current Washington University law student Daniel Kuehnert. Since then, the effort has grown to include 16 state blogs and numerous nationwide sites, including RussForPresident.com, which was founded in February 2005 by University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point student Matthew Wallock. Steering Committee member, Minnesota resident and political activist Joel Clemmer, says "The movement has grown tremendously and needs a new face for the final push. Our goal over the next few months is to double our membership and bring at least five more states on line."

Add your voice to the movement:
sign up at RunRussRun.com today.

Russ is standing up for US!
"It's time to stand up - not to cheer, but to fight back." - Russ Feingold

[CabalPowered]

1. Feingold/Gore

or Gore/Feingold. That's my favorite ticket ATM.

[madrchsod]

2. done

[kansasblue]

3. I'll say it here. If it's Gore/Fiengold I'll quit my job and work ....

fulltime for them both.

[Bluzmann57]

4. Feingold is a fine choice

Hey, I'm tired and fuzzy thinking right now. But seriously, he did vote against the Patriot act and also against Iraq. He was in town here in Davenport, IA back in July and he was very gracious as well. So if he should choose to run, or the people in this site get him to run, I suspect he'll get my vote. He's real grassroots.

[Thrill]

5. Hard to win with Senators

who have long voting records that can be distorted

[midnight]

6. Russ would be a candidate who can say he didn't sign the

Patriot Act. That alone will be a an incredible piece of information. Especially once the trial for Libby get going. Halliburton and its secret energy meetings, Downing street memos, ect......

[Maven]

7. K/R

[OneBlueSky]

8. Gore/Feingold would be an excellent ticket . . .

Gore has the bona fides on the environment at a time when it's rapidly becoming THE most critical issue facing humankind . . .

he's also already won the presidency, although the Supreme Court incorrectly ruled otherwise and installed Bush . . . six years later, we're reaping the results . . .

[pstans]

9. I am for Feingold/Obama

That would put Democrats in the White House for 16 years.

[Rainscents]

10. Done!

[snowbear]

11. He confirmed today that he will NOT run...

Feingold rules out 2008 run for president
By CRAIG GILBERT
[e-mail]
Posted: Nov. 11, 2006
Washington - Sen. Russ Feingold will not seek his party's presidential nomination in 2008, the Wisconsin Democrat told the Journal Sentinel on Saturday.

Russ Feingold

Section: State Politics
Section: Election 2006
Weblog: All Politics Watch

"I never got to that point where I'd rather be running around the country, running for president, than being a senator from Wisconsin," Feingold said in a phone interview from Madison.

Feingold, 53, conceded that he faced long odds of winning the nomination.

"It would have required the craziest combination of things in the history of American politics to make it work," he said.

But Feingold said waging an underdog campaign appealed to him. What didn't appeal to him, he said, was "the way in which this effort would dismantle both my professional life (in the Senate) and my personal life. I'm very happy right now."

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