The deadline to become one of the donors eligible for the upcoming "Dinner with Barack" is tonight at 11:59 p.m. EST. But even more importantly, tonight is the last chance for you to make an impact before the end of the first financial quarter.
If you donate before midnight tonight, your donation will be part of our March financial report to the FEC. This will be the final report before the next series of primaries, and the results will be sized up and interpreted by everyone trying to gauge the strength of our campaign.
As Barack himself explained in an email that went out this morning:
There's one thing we already know about the March fundraising results: Senator Clinton and Senator McCain have raised a significant portion of their money from Washington lobbyists and special interest PACs.We've never done that, and we never will.Instead, we will continue to rely on more than a million individual donors who support this campaign by giving only what they can afford.Change does not come from the top down -- it comes from the bottom up.So rather than having expensive fundraising dinners to take contributions from Washington lobbyists, I'm hosting a different kind of dinner. If you are chosen from among the donors who give before midnight tonight, I'll get to hear your personal story and ideas about how we can solve America's biggest problems together.... The pundits are slowly realizing something about our political process that we've known from the beginning: people matter.In unprecedented numbers, ordinary people are volunteering and donating to this campaign. They're taking true ownership in a way that has never happened before.When we started this campaign over a year ago, the pundits and the political insiders didn't think it was possible to mobilize ordinary people to reject conventional thinking and fight for real change.We have a chance to prove them wrong.
Too many political fundraisers are hosted by Washington lobbyists and filled with representatives of special interests.
But our campaign is different.
Our funding comes from a movement of more than one million supporters like you giving whatever they can afford.
Donate before 11:59 p.m. EDT tonight, and you could join Barack for dinner:
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