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| Dear Katie, We hope you all had a warm and wonderful Thanksgiving. We have so much to be thankful for this year. We wanted to inform everyone that our work in the Central Valley continues. Unfortunately, as you may know, Rudy Salas did not defeat his Republican opponent in CD-22. Below is a twitter link to a message Rudy sent about his race. Collectively we put forth a great effort. We canvassed, we concierged, we raised funds, we contacted friends and activists near and wide and enlisted their support for our fundraising, phonebanking, postcarding and canvassing. We have lots to be proud of; we believe we had one of the finest team efforts in catalyzing volunteers and working with the Rudy Salas team. Hopefully, what we did will become a model for how activists can work with campaigns. Although there are way too many people to thank individually, we do want to give a special thank you to Cecilia Minalga for her tireless leadership throughout our canvassing process. If you were at Rudy Salas’ watch party, you heard Dolores Huerta say it best. She thanked people from the Bay Area for coming out to canvass; she said we kept coming and coming and coming. And on top of that, Dolores said, we raised $500K to support local grassroots organizations. Let’s take a moment to be thankful and to be proud of what we did. Here is Rudy’s twitter message. |
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| Thank you for investing in and supporting our Central Valley neighbors, Your friends on the Central Valley Matters team |