By Derek Brigham

Fundraising is tough this year for Congressional Districts and BPOUs. Bad economy, new standards from what donors have been acustomed to, and a far more diversified range of options. Thanks to the web, you can send cabbage through PayPal to your hometown mayoral candidate 2,000 miles away in a heartbeat. Yet it's easy to forget about your CD because you've moved beyond snail mail, and those pesky phone mail requests.

The reality is we all have to come up with new ideas to make a dollar holler—speakers and events, recurring revenue plans, auctions, and incentive items. But they better be good, because competition is tougher than ever too. Sheila Khine and I put this one together for the upcoming CD3 convention next weekend. A simple bumper sticker that carries our message of turning the district from Blue to Red—a carry over concept form this map I put together earlier in the year.

If you are in CD3, I want to see one of these on your bumper this election season. It's yours for 10 clams. And if you are in another CD, go for it, make something better.