I don't like that one of the two candidates with clean donor bases is underfunded, so I donated $500 to the Elizabeth Warren campaign. I hope I'm not too late. I hope others haven't waited like I did.
When her AI asked why I donated, I texted:
1. You're the rightest of all our right candidates: Corruption = corporate capture.
America needs you more than it knows. You can SELL how a nation of laws is better for Americans than a nation of men. You're a constitutional lawyer.
2. You've impacted more people with the nuts and bolts CFPB (consumer financial protection bureau) than any other of our great candidates' records of public service, honorable as they are. You're a bankruptcy expert.
3. A Harvard professor is nothing on Wall St. But business insiders and Wall St. sweat over your nomination, and they will take YOUR calls.
4. You're dependably Democrat because you have a clean donor base, like my old #1 favorite, Gov. Jay Inslee.
5. 52% of this country, women, need Warren -- YOU -- in the West Wing. Women need a leader who sees women's leadership.
6. I've read a couple of your "plans for that," so I know that when you say "I've got a plan for that," I can trust that you're two clicks beyond laying out "ideas," and you can explain how to budget for them.
7. You have out-evolved Joe, Mike, and other Democratic candidates who might believe they've never had to evolve.
8. Most in the corporate world don't trust you. Yet you can convince the wealthy and their tools, that when they set aside austerity and poverty economics to stabilize climate, and the death deals of lawlessness, that the world for children will stabilize the future for all of us.
9. I want to help you dress to look more presidential. You've been convincing enough in your comfortable look with crowds. It's time that you look more the way most Americans want to see their leader, and not like a local campaigner. Time to style tweak that great hair, the outer jackets, upgrade the great color choices with quality.
10. You need Spanish speakers and black leaders to join you for more demographic voter outreach. Use Julian Castro more; he wants to help; welcome Millennial bands at rallies.
Above all, keep hammering away at corruption.
WARREN IN THE WEST WING!!