Very, very bad news from Georgia

 

A new poll shows that the U.S. Senate races in Georgia are both in a dead heat.¹ That means that we have a real shot at winning both seats and flipping the Senate blue.

But we just got some very disturbing news: Georgia's GOP Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue—along with their billionaire backers—have reserved an astonishing $40 million in air time for ads.² The Democrats? Only $7 million.³

No. no. no. NO! We cannot let this happen.

Which is why, today, MoveOn is announcing an ambitious new campaign to reserve as much TV and radio ad space as possible to help power Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock to victory.

With TV air time getting bought up as you read this, we need to move fast and stay focused. Will you chip in $5 a month to help fuel our work to get our ads on the air, keep them up through the election, and head into 2021 strong and able to fight for progressive change with Joe Biden in the White House?

GOP Senator Kelly Loeffler got rich off of shady deals on Wall Street and is now the wealthiest member of Congress.⁴ Loeffler is using her fortune as a slush fund to finance her campaign, and she's already plowed $23,000,000 of her own money into the race.⁵ 

But that's not all we're facing. Charles Koch and other right-wing billionaires have also poured tens of millions into the elections, and Mitch McConnell's PAC is planning to spend massive amounts to help prop up Loeffler and Perdue.⁶

MoveOn doesn't take a dime of corporate money, so we may not be able to compete with the GOP and their billionaire backers dollar for dollar, but luckily, we know how to use data-driven targeting to make sure that the right voters see our messages, which means every dollar you give goes a long way.

The companies that sell TV and radio ad space in Georgia just told us that if we don't purchase time right now, all of the ad space might be gone before we get the chance to get our messages in support of Rev. Warnock and Jon Ossoff on the air. We can't let that happen.

So we need your help. Will you chip in $5 a month to help get our ads on the air, keep them up to power Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock to victory, and enable us to keep up the fight in 2021?

It's no secret that winning in Georgia is the ONLY way Democrats can take back the Senate. And right now, Ossoff and Warnock are running neck and neck against their GOP opponents. 

We CAN win. 

We CAN flip the Senate. 

We CAN end Mitch McConnell's stranglehold on the Senate. 

But it's going to take all of us stepping up and doing our part. 

Sources:

1. "An early poll of Georgia’s twin Senate runoffs shows tight races," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 11, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/146498?t=8&akid=284278%2E3735812%2EFPp6Vt

2. "Georgia Runoffs Cap 'Deranged Year' With Ugly Ads, Flood of Cash," Bloomberg, November 13, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/146496?t=10&akid=284278%2E3735812%2EFPp6Vt

3. Ibid.

4. "The Richest Politician On Capitol Hill Is Likely Georgia’s Recently Appointed, Controversial Sen. Kelly Loeffler," Forbes, August 3, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/146499?t=12&akid=284278%2E3735812%2EFPp6Vt

5. "Loeffler and Sprecher’s $31 million year," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 26, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/146500?t=14&akid=284278%2E3735812%2EFPp6Vt

6. Ibid.