From Jerry: "A New Direction for America" (includes Clinton video highlights)

This is it.

Everything we've all worked for is now on the line. As Michael Fitzgerald reported in the Stockton Record today:

"Pombo and Jerry McNerney has become a hotly contested extravaganza of national importance. . . Bill Clinton touched down at Stockton's airport to rally for McNerney. Laura Bush is coming; Ben Affleck is coming; a tsunami of campaign ads is hitting. . . (in what) has become a key battlefield for control of Congress."    

Under white-hot heat from all sides, Richard Pombo is unleashing a new wave of personal attacks on me at the last minute to depress voter turnout. Pombo has raised $3.8 million -- almost twice as much as our campaign -- and he's spending it at the last minute to paint a distorted, ugly picture of me in the minds of voters.

We've got to respond, on the air and on the ground. I've talked with my campaign manager and my finance director and we've determined that it's going to take one more big push -- $200,000 by Election Day -- to overcome Pombo's $4 million fear-and-smear machine. Remember, our people-powered campaign was outspent 2-to-1 in the Democratic primary and still won. We can do it again, but we need your help. Just one more time.

http://www.jerrymcnerney.org/contribute

Right now, our new TV ad -- "A New Direction for America" -- is playing across the 11th Congressional District on broadcast television. You can watch it on our web site by clicking on the "Multimedia" link.

Unlike cable TV, broadcast ad buys are very expensive. To get this ad on the television sets of even more voters, we need your help now.

http://www.jerrymcnerney.org/contribute

Right now, our field organizers and volunteers are finalizing plans for our four-day Get Out The Vote campaign in seven different campaign hubs. From Stockton, Tracy, Morgan Hill, Dublin, Brentwood, Manteca and Lodi, staffers and volunteers are printing up voter lists, applying polling-place information to door-hangers, and stocking our phone banks with new phone lines.

To cover the enormous cost of running this major final push to Get Out The Vote, we need your help now.

http://www.jerrymcnerney.org/contribute

Right now, our web site team is making sure that everything on our site is ready so that you can take direct action, sign up to Get Out The Vote easily, and provide voters with the information on the issues they need to make a decision.

In addition, our web team spent a sleepless last 48 hours working to promote the endorsement rally with President Clinton and provide video highlights for those folks who couldn't be at this incredible event. You can watch a 5-minute reel of clips from Wednesday night's inspiring rally right now by clicking here.

But, after watching those highlights, please remember to contribute to the cause. Producing this free public event cost our grassroots campaign a lot of money at the last-minute, and we need your help to cover the cost of hosting the President and 1,000 McNerney supporters on 24-hours notice:

http://www.jerrymcnerney.org/contribute

There are four days left -- the most important four days of our two-year journey to unseat Richard Pombo and return honesty, integrity and accountability to Washington.

We've done everything we can to win and now we just need your help one more time to push our people-powered campaign over the top and into Washington.

Remember, when we get there, you will know that I will be beholden to you and you alone -- the people who have obliterated politics-as-usual with your small donations, shocking the pundits and power-brokers by fueling our grassroots campaign for change.

I do not have the words to express how much your support means to me. Without you, none of this would have ever been possible. From the bottom of my heart, thank you again for everything you have done to help this wonderful campaign go from write-in to winner.

This is it. Help us make history one more time.



p.s. As my campaign manager said the other day, we will need a massive volunteer effort to defeat Richard Pombo's last-minute avalanche of personal attacks. I will NOT be elected to Congress if you do not join me between now and Election Day talking with voters face-to-face on the ground and neighbor-to-neighbor on the phones. It's as simple as that.

Simply click the link below and you'll be sent to our "GOTV for Jerry" web page where you can find a variety of volunteer opportunities across the district. It's easy to sign up!

http://www.jerrymcnerney.org/GOTV