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        <Name>Defeat John Hickenlooper!    Please send $25.00 to Dan Maes at the Link Below.</Name>
        <Summary>If one in every ten Colorado Republicans gives Dan Maes $25.00, he'll have more than enough money to defeat Bill Ritter's alter ego.  Please Twitter, email, blog, etc. to get more Dollars for Dan, at http://DollarsForDan.com.</Summary>
        <Description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img hspace="10" alt="Dan Maes speaking to a group of Rotarians on the campaign trail" vspace="10" align="right" src="/docs/DanMaes.JPG" width="215" height="146" style="width: 215px; height: 146px" /&gt;By John Gaudio,&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;It doesn't have to be much.&amp;nbsp; Buy Dan a dinner, lunch, some stamps, a case of paper,&amp;nbsp;three seconds of TV advertising,&amp;nbsp;or something&amp;nbsp;else he needs to defeat Bill Ritter's alter ego, by giving just &lt;a title="This takes you directly to Dan Maes' donation page." href="https://www.fundraisingbynet.net/fbn/contributeState.asp?guidRegistration=5A565E" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;$25.00 to Dan Maes' campaign&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; If you can't afford $25.00, send him $5.00 or $10.00, the cost of a cheap lunch.&amp;nbsp; If you can afford more, God bless you.&amp;nbsp; Dan needs the money.&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;It's nothing for Dan Maes to be ashamed of.&amp;nbsp; All people running for political office need money.&amp;nbsp; Our Colorado Republican establishment should be ashamed for effectively abandoning the gubernatorial candidate we elected twice, once at the State Assembly, and once&amp;nbsp;in the&amp;nbsp;primary.&amp;nbsp; Tom Tancredo, whom I admire, and whom I would have supported as our &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REPUBLICAN&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt; nominee, had he chosen to run, should not oppose the will of the members of (what used to be, and will, I hope be again) his own party.&amp;nbsp; Please, Tom, do not hand this election to John Hickenlooper the way Ross Prerot handed&amp;nbsp;the 1992 presidential election to Bill Clinton.&amp;nbsp; You're better than that.&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;Dan's been outspent from the start.&amp;nbsp; The &amp;quot;smart money&amp;quot; said:&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Scott McInnis will easily win at the Republican State Assembly.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; I was there. Dan won.&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Scott McInnis will easily win the Republican Nomination.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; I was there too.&amp;nbsp; Dan won again.&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;Now the same &amp;quot;smart money&amp;quot; that was wrong twice before, claims that Dan Maes can't defeat John Hickenlooper, so Tom Tancredo feels justified in splitting our conservative vote, hoping&amp;nbsp;to run Dan Maes out of the race.&amp;nbsp; Because Tom's splitting the conservative vote, and Dan doesn't have a lot of money, the Republican Governor's Conference, and other Republican organizations, are refusing to provide the support Dan Maes needs to beat John Hickenlooper.&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;We Republicans can't afford to let John Hickenlooper continue Bill Ritter's policies.&amp;nbsp; We cannot be party to a self-fulfilling prophecy, where since the &amp;quot;smart money&amp;quot; says Dan can't win, we shoot ourselves in the head by splitting our vote, and denying Dan Maes the&amp;nbsp;support he's earned.&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;The leadership of our party needs to step up to the plate, and bring our candidate home.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Dan Maes&amp;nbsp;made it to third base without much help from the media, or the leadership of the Colorado Republican party.&amp;nbsp; It wasn't always pretty, but Dan found a way, against all odds, to get the job done.&amp;nbsp; Did you notice how often people mentioned Scott McInnis by name, but referred to Dan Maes, not by his name, but only as the &amp;quot;other candidate for governor?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;I just registered &lt;a href="http://dollarsfordan.com/"&gt;http://DollarsForDan.com&lt;/a&gt;, and have it pointed to this post.&amp;nbsp; After you &lt;a title="This takes you straight to Dan Maes' donation page." href="https://www.fundraisingbynet.net/fbn/contributeState.asp?guidRegistration=5A565E" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;send $25.00 to Dan Maes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, please Twitter, email, blog and promote DollarsForDan.com.&amp;nbsp; Convince your friends and neighbors that it's worth a few bucks to&amp;nbsp;elect a conservative businessman&amp;nbsp;to the Colorado Governor's&amp;nbsp;office.&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;We are the Republican Party.&amp;nbsp; Let's get the ball rolling now, as individual Republicans and conservatives, by&amp;nbsp;sending &lt;a title="Dan Maes' donation page." href="https://www.fundraisingbynet.net/fbn/contributeState.asp?guidRegistration=5A565E" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a few bucks to Dan Maes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; My wife and I just&amp;nbsp;sent $50.00.&amp;nbsp; There are over a million registered Republicans in Colorado.&amp;nbsp; If one in ten gives Dan Maes $25.00, that will put over two million dollars into&amp;nbsp;his bank account.&amp;nbsp; Is it worth the cost of a couple lunches to beat Bill Ritter's alter ego this November?&amp;nbsp; Hell yes!&lt;/p&gt;</Description>
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                  <Synopsis>Donate $25.00 to Dan Maes.  Help him defeat Bill Ritter's alter ego, to become Colorado's next Governor.</Synopsis>

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                  <Title>Dan Maes Beats Scott McInnis in Colorado's Republican Primary Race for Governor | A Better Blogsite</Title>

                  <Synopsis>At least that appears to be the case. According to The Denver Post, Scott McInnis told his supporters earlier to "go home, get some sleep and we'll know results in the morning."</Synopsis>

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                  <Title>Dan Maes Addresses DTC Rotary Club | A Better Blogsite</Title>

                  <Synopsis>Dan Maes, Candidate for Colorado Governor, talks with DTC Rotary Club members last Tuesday, June 8, 2010.</Synopsis>

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                  <Title>Victory In November, Repeal and Replace Obama Care</Title>

                  <Synopsis>Learn from Hugh Hewitt, Dennis Prager, Michael Medved, and Austin Hill, how to take back our government this November.</Synopsis>

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