Obama Campaign Announces Contributions from 2,893 Iowans in First Nine Months of Campaign
Campaign Also Begins Airing New Television Ad “Quiet”
DES MOINES – The Obama for America campaign today announced that in the last nine months, 2,893 Iowans have donated to the campaign – an impressive display of grassroots support across the state. In the third fundraising quarter alone, Obama received contributions from 1,321 Iowans.
“Over the past nine months, a record number of Americans have donated to this campaign because they are sick of the status quo in Washington and are ready for a President who will fight for them,” said Josh Earnest, Obama’s Iowa Communications Director. “Amazingly, not one of these contributions came from Washington lobbyists or PACs.”
Earnest said that 1,257 of the 1,545 donations from Iowans in the third quarter were less than $200. Of the 4,034 total donations from Iowa donors since Obama announced his candidacy, 2,749 were less than $200 dollars. Obama has raised $252,737 total from Iowans in this campaign.
In the past nine months, Obama has received contributions from more than 350,000 donors across America.
“Small donations from ordinary Americans are the backbone of this campaign,” Earnest said. “As Senator Obama learned over two decades ago as a community organizer, real change comes from the bottom up, not the top down, so we’re honored to have the support of so many hard-working Iowans.”
The Obama Campaign also announced the launch of a new ad, Quiet. In the ad, Obama stresses Washington’s failure to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and reveals his willingness to take on tough issues in front of challenging audiences—like telling automakers that as President he won’t stand for them blocking higher fuel standards for our cars. In Des Moines on Sunday, Obama talked about how his Christian faith influenced his commitment to fighting global warming. His bold plan to fight the causes of global warming underscore his view that as President, he won’t just tell the American people what they want to hear—he’ll tell them what they need to know.
SCRIPT – “Quiet”
I don’t accept that we should be still sending eight hundred million dollars a day, part to hostile nations because of our addiction to foreign oil.
And in the bargain we’re melting the polar ice caps.
I went to Detroit to insist that we have to increase fuel efficiency standards. Now, I have to admit, the room got kind of quiet.
We can’t just tell people what they want to hear.
We need to tell them what they need to hear. We need to tell them the truth.
