New threats from C. Virginia FIelds
An August 8th email from the Fields campaign, seeking cash for her campaign for Mayor, has a tone that is both desperate and oddly threatening. While not admitting how desperate her campaign really is for cash [see here and here], she makes a plea for last-minute funds for the reporting period that ends at midnight, August 8th.
Candidates often use reported contributions to justify the viability of their candidacy. In the case of Fields, that would be about all she has going. From the first day, political observers have questioned her rationale for running, her record and her ability to win.
For those fools throwing money at Fields' dead-in-the-water campaign, she threatens to:
* with a $25 contribution ($125 with matching funds) will pay for a mailing to a tenants association (she will blather on about protecting tenants but won't tell them about all the landlord and developer contributions she's taken over the past 8 years and the landlords and landlord attorneys she has appointed to community boards).
* with a $50 contribution ($250 with matching funds) will pay for 1,500 buttons for supporters (somehow we suspect that means 1,500 buttons plastered over her one supporter, Trudy Mason).
* with a $100 contribution ($500 with matching funds) will pay for printing of campaign literature to be distributed to hundreds of people at subway stops (that assumes anyone is interested in reading her mush, and also includes the cost of several Adobe Photoshop experts and Asian stock photos).
* with a $250 contribution ($1,250 with matching funds) will pay to run a phone bank to target voters for 3 hours (she has to rent the space and phone lines because organizations that traditionally provide such services gratis have stayed away from her).
For the complete email. click below.
From : C. Virginia Fields
Reply-To : newyorkers4fields@verizon.net
Sent : Monday, August 8, 2005 5:30 PM
Subject : I need your help.
I have had the privilege of campaigning around this wonderful city - from Riverdale to Flatbush, from Flushing to St. George, from the Upper West Side to Far Rockaway. New Yorkers share the same concerns as I do: the education of our children, the ability to afford to live in New York City, the safety of our subway system, and the overall quality of life for all of us.
We need a mayor who understands the everyday challenges that face New Yorkers. We need a mayor who is committed to addressing these priorities.
I will be that mayor.
My priorities are your priorities.
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My plan calls for the hiring of additional 2,000 officers to fight terrorism in our streets and in our subway systems;
My plan calls for building 10,000 new affordable housing units annually and preserving 8,000 more;
My plan calls for reducing the number of chronically unemployed in our communities by putting this priority at the highest level in my administration; and
My plan calls for early intervention and investment in our school children.
That's why I need your help.
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Midnight tonight marks the end of this financial reporting period. I hope I can count on your support to raise the resources that will allow me to be on television and run my field operation.
The September 13th Democratic Primary is only 5 weeks away. Your help is needed now.
Because I am participating in the New York City Campaign Finance Board's matching program, the first $250 of a contribution made by a New York City resident is matched 4 to 1. I hope you will consider these possibilities of what your contribution can do to help spread my message.
I need your help to continue spreading my message across this city. Can I count on your support before midnight tonight?
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Thank you in advance,
C. Virginia Fields
New Yorkers for Fields
email: newyorkers4fields@verizon.net
phone: 212-678-4954
web: http://www.newyorkersforfields.com
