Folks in Texas say that Fort Bend County, where I live, has to be the first suburban county to flip Democratic for the state of Texas to flip.

In 2008, Barack Obama got 49% of the vote here, and over the past 4 years the demographics of my county continue to shift Democratic.  We have a slate of excellent candidates locally.  We may be electing the first African American sheriff since Reconstruction and we also may be electing the first female District Court Judge in the entire history of the county.  All of our judges are currently old white Republican men.

I belong to a group of good folks in the county called Silver Democrats.  It’s Democrats over the age of 55.  They are block walking every week and knocking on doors, reminding people that this election is important.

They need $500 to buy 1,500 plastic bags like the one over yonder to put on  doors with campaign literature in it.  They want to print OBAMA ’12 in large blue letters at the bottom.  People will toss aside a door hanger, but they will look inside this bag and keep it.

I’m asking for help, but I’m willing to do my part.

There is a reward that goes with your generous donation.  Yes, a reward besides feeling really, really good about yourself.

For a $5 donation, Bubba and I will send you a postcard from the Democratic National Convention with Obama’s picture on it.  We originally ordered them to thank our friends who voted for us to be delegates, but we don’t have as many friends as we thought we did, so we have some left over.  We will mail them from Charlotte, North Carolina, during the convention.  That is one cool memento.

For a $25 donation, you will get a postcard and an Obama  yardsign planted in this county with your name at the bottom.  The Obama campaign will spend no money in Texas so there will be no yard signs.  We will give a Fort Bend County Democrat an Obama yard sign just to hack-off Rick Perry and the Republicans around here.  We will put whatever you want at the bottom of the sign – keep it clean, Momma inspects the signs, too –  with a marker, take a picture of the Democrat who got your sign and email the picture to you.  You will have the daily joy of knowing that your yard sign is hacking off a Republican in Texas.  If a Republican steals it, we will replace it.  That’s just how much we enjoy hacking off Republicans.  Rev. Thomas has volunteered to tell God about that lousy thief, too.

For a $50 donation, you get all of the above and a genuine a Obama fundraising swag something or other.  Yes, we know.  Every other political fundraiser only promises you good government.  With us, you get good government and cool stuff.  You will get an Obama baseball cap if we have one in stock.  If we’ve sold out, we’ll replace it with something equally as cool.  Marsha is in charge of cool stuff and she’s generous.

For a $100 donation, we will come to your house and clean the tops of your ceiling fans.  Okay, so we won’t, but that’s how we will feel.  You’ll get all of the above and a hand written thank you note from Miss Bev who is 85 years old, voted for President Roosevelt and does all our proper correspondence.

Here How To Do It.

First, click here and make your donation.  If you don’t do business online, you can mail a check (or cash if you’re feeling lucky) to Silver Democrats, PO Box 785, Richmond, Texas 77406

Then, go to my Tell Juanita page and send me your name, address, and email address.  That will start the ball rolling to making you a beloved character in my hometown.

Once again, here’s the bags we want to buy.  We will have “OBAMA ’12” put at the bottom in BIG letters.

If we get more than $500, we’ll donate bags to the Young Democrats here.  They are not as peppy as we are but they generally behave better.

If we get less than $500, I’m going to blame you.

UPDATE:  We’ve hit over $1,000 in just a few hours.  That means the Young Democrats get bags, too.  Now we’re working on getting some for the Texas Demcoratic Women here.  I have the coolest customers on the block!