{"id":10722,"date":"2018-05-26T10:24:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T14:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10722"},"modified":"2018-05-26T16:21:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T20:21:01","slug":"would-you-pay-to-support-this-mailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10722","title":{"rendered":"Would You Pay to Support This Mailer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>George Leventhal&#8217;s campaign is soliciting contributions to finance a mailer and it promises to be a doozy.\u00a0 They sent out this blast email:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hey there,<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re just one month away from the Maryland Primary on June 26. That means we\u2019ve got just one month until Democrats from Takoma Park to Damascus elect our next County Executive.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s one month to make sure every voter from Poolesville to Burtonsville sees the super ad that\u2019s been the talk of the town for wonks across the county.<\/p>\n<p>And we\u2019ve got one month to make sure this indelible image pops up in the mailbox of every primary voter in the county:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Leventhal-Anti-Trump.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10723\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Leventhal-Anti-Trump.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"912\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Leventhal-Anti-Trump.png 912w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Leventhal-Anti-Trump-300x296.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Leventhal-Anti-Trump-768x758.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 912px) 100vw, 912px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As one of our grassroots, people-powered campaign\u2019s superstar supporters, George wanted to make sure you were one of the first get a peek at his new mailers.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because you\u2019ve always been our secret weapon and his superpower in this race. We simply couldn\u2019t be this close &#8212; within striking distance of victory &#8212; without your support.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the thing: Demand is so high for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=2&amp;v=aPNwSbkKL1E\">\u201cMoCo Avengers\u201d ad<\/a> that we\u2019ve had to divert some funds from our mailer campaign. That\u2019s great news &#8212; but only if we can make up the difference.<\/p>\n<p>To cover that gap &#8212; and ensure we can still get the full mailer program out to our targets &#8212; we need to raise $1,300 dollars between now and when they go to print next Friday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wait a minute.\u00a0 Has Leventhal been endorsed by Greater Greater Washington?\u00a0 We don&#8217;t see anything on <a href=\"https:\/\/ggwash.org\/elections\/2018-primary\">their site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, who cares.\u00a0 This is too good.\u00a0 Your author might have to donate to Leventhal now!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> We have verified that Greater Greater Washington has indeed endorsed Leventhal.\u00a0 Their blog post is not up yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Pagnucco. George Leventhal&#8217;s campaign is soliciting contributions to finance a mailer and it promises to be a doozy.\u00a0 They sent out this blast email: Hey there, We\u2019re just one month away from the Maryland Primary on June 26. That means we\u2019ve got just one month until Democrats from Takoma Park to Damascus elect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10722\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Would You Pay to Support This Mailer?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1464],"class_list":["post-10722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-george-leventhal","tag-george-leventhal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2MW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10725,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10722\/revisions\/10725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}