2018 General Election Withdrew
2018 General Election Elected to the US Senate 50 – 45
Our hope for 2018 is that there will be a Democratic wave; that races that were close in 2016 will be clear Democratic victories in 2018. Even if there is such a wave, we can’t be certain that it will lift the most vulnerable Democrats. There are vulnerable Democrats who won by very narrow margins in 2016. As we hope for a wave, we should also be protecting them.
There are about ten Democrats whose victory was by less than 18,000 votes. While there were Republicans who won close elections and are vulnerable, we can’t target them effectively until we know who the Democrats will be who are running against them.
We do know who the vulnerable Democrats are. We can help these Democrats now. As with all candidates up for election in 2018, monthly contributions beginning in 2017, even if the contributions are small, provide a measure of certainty about income.
Here is a candidate worth protecting. Jacky Rosen, http://www.rosenfornevada.com/ won the election for this open seat in 2016 — by a scant 3943 votes out of just under 311,000 cast, the second smallest margin for a Democratic winning House candidate. She defeated Danny Tarkanian, the right wing son of Jerry Tarkanian who made the University of Nevada – Las Vegas famous for its basketball team, He is a perennial close call candidate, but not winning candidate.
In winning this election, Rosen became Ms. Smith goes to Washington; that is when Smith is a Jewish name. Born and raised in Chicago. After graduating from the University of Minnesota, she followed her parents to Las Vegas where she wound up in Harry Reid’s neighborhood. Between the southern border of Las Vegas and Nevada’s southern tip.
Jacky Rosen made a career in high tech, eventually developing enough knowledge of the field that she founded and ran her own consulting firm. Before running for Congress, her only previous election had been to the office of President of her Reform Jewish synagogue — a role in which she was universally well regarded. Among other things, she moved the synagogue to solar energy, reducing energy costs by 70%.
Wife of a radiologist, mother of an adolescent, Jacky Rosen had no thought about a political career until Harry Reid encouraged her to run for the open and swingy congressional seat held by Republican Joe Heck since 2011. Rosen had the appropriate political views for Nevada Democrats. She’s pro-choice and pro-immigration, believes in the need for a “higher livable wage,” and is a supporter of the Affordable Care Act.
Harry Reid has a good eye for candidates (He was a supporter of Barack Obama). Rosen proved to be a natural campaigner and she won by a whisker. She is still running (I can attest to the number of electronic financial solicitations I get from her).
Jacky Rosen will need all the resources she can get. Don’t wait for her email. Go to her website: http://www.rosenfornevada.com/ . Consider a monthly donation — the kind that makes candidates confident that resources will continue. You can also check out her Facebook page and her government website to learn more about her: https://rosen.house.gov/ and https://www.facebook.com/rosenfornevada/
