My warmest greetings to you, my sisters & brothers & others — today, I’m writing to you on behalf of some good people, some of which are working very closely with the Sanders campaign & some which are working very hard for our delegates to get them the funding they need to fight for us on the convention floor in Philadelphia. I’ll be going over some very short, very simple, yet extremely important math…

The Delegate Math

(as it stands on July 5th)

There are at least another 750,000 ballots that should be counted in California & there are very dedicated & competent grassroots activists who are doing everything in their power to make sure that every last vote is honored. Lawsuits have also been filed to block the certification of the elections results in California until the obvious & numerous shenanigans are investigated — but, as it stands now (7/5), here is the delegate count:

Sanders | 1,846 pledged delegates or 45.6%

Clinton | 2,205 pledged delegates or 54.4%

As I’ve said before, the gap will do nothing but grow narrower between now & the national convention, in 20 days. I will write about the fight for more delegates, soon — but first we have to pay a bit of attention to the delegates that we already have.

It has been brought to my attention that, after the Sanders campaign sent out a poorly-worded but well-intentioned email asking for donations to help get our delegates to Philadelphia, the funds raised by our delegates has fallen to about 1/6th of what it was before. I’m here, on behalf of good people who’ve contacted me, to tell you that:

This is not good & that is not the result that the campaign was hoping for!

As Kelly McCurdy, a regional field director for the Sanders-Campaign, says in a recent email to one of our delegates,

“[the drop in contributions to individual delegates] was a consequence we didn’t expect. We are hoping to fund-raise for the gaps that people weren’t able to make on their own efforts.”

In short, what has happened here is a failure of communication — the majority of the fund-raising was happening at the individual level and things were going swimmingly. Unfortunately, the email from the campaign seems to have given people the false impression that the whole issue was being handled. This is not the case, I repeat, this is not the case. I’ll be frank — all of my delegate math means exactly nothing if the delegates don’t make it.

Pardon my language, but what I’m trying to say is…

Fund Our Damn Delegates !

CLICK HERE to find a delegate to fund. Let me explain why we all should fund a delegate with math:

\mathtt{4,051 \div 100 \approx 40.5}

That means that every 40 delegates are equal to about 1% of the total delegate-count. Right now, 45.6% of the pledged delegates are committed to vote for Sanders at the convention — that number will definitely increase (mark my words), which means that Clinton’s will decrease because this is a zero sum-game. We are only 4.4% away from an even 50%. But imagine what happens if 40 of our delegates can’t afford to go to the convention. Now, imagine that 80 don’t make it. Or 120. And so on.

All of our gains in California will mean nothing if there’s a “hole in our bucket,” as it were.

To Sum It All Up

Here’re the points I want you to take away from this article:

Do not be complacent — our delegates do indeed still need to be funded! This only happens by us funding them! Sanders’ Campaign intends to try to “fill in the gaps” of our delegate’s fundraising efforts but that does not mean that we’re not supposed to donate to individual delegates’ Philly-Fund . That is the single most important thing that you can donate to, at the moment. We are close — do not lose hope ! You are not alone & a lot of people are working very hard to make this political revolution a reality on July 25th — but we need our delegates or we don’t stand a chance. Don’t just sit there, lookin’ at me — do something !

Please, visit this website: http://www.fundberniedelegates.com/

I am in contact with the people who run that website & I assure you that they’ve screened all of their delegates’ fundraisers to make sure that they are real delegates for Bernie Sanders. They also run this Facebook group, where you can digitally hang out with our delegates & get to know them — go say hello (& thanks) to our delegates!

That’s all for today, my beloved friends — I’ll drop a few new math articles for you, soon…

In solidarity,

John Laurits #SeeYouInPhilly

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P.S. If you’re in a hurry, I’ll make it easy for you — here’s a link to donate to a Washington delegate & here’s a link to donate to a California delegate & here’s one for a New York Delegate.

P.P.S. If you have a minute, you should check out the new page that I’ve added to this site, called the “News-REAL.” I’ll be keeping updated lists of my new articles there, as well as info-art, videos, & other free media, including lists of links to good data sources so that more & more people can fight the corporate-media’s misinformation.

P.P.P.S. Click here to fund our delegates!

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