Today is the one-year anniversary of my opponent David Obey’s 787 billion dollar stimulus disaster.  Remember their promises?  If the stimulus passed, unemployment would stay below 8%.  Unemployment rose above 10%, and has reached 17% when you include people who have simply given up looking for jobs.  They said the stimulus would create 3 million new jobs.  We’ve lost 3 million new jobs.

A recent survey in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel found that 69% of staff economists believe the stimulus has had “no impact on employment to date.”

Even Democratic Senator Evan Bayh, who announced his retirement this week, said “If I could create one job in the private sector by helping grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the past six months.”

The stimulus has been an unmitigated disaster, plunging us deeper in debt but doing nothing to help our economy recover.

Today I’m asking you to join me in fighting back.

We’re hosting a “moneybomb” today at www.obeystimulus.com, to educate voters about Chairman Obey, Congress’ biggest spender, and the stimulus bill that he wrote.

We’ll also be chatting live right here at 1 p.m. CST.  I hope you can join us! Leave your questions for me in the comments below.

Let’s roll,

Sean

Two hundred and thirty six years ago today, American patriots stood up for their freedom at the Boston Tea Party. This year alone, millions of Americans have been inspired by their example to take action in their communities to change the direction of our country.

Today, that spirit returns to Northwestern Wisconsin as we launch a one-day blitz to build momentum for our campaign for new leadership to replace Dave Obey.

Please go to StrikeaBlowforFreedom.com and contribute what you can to our moneybomb to retire Dave Obey. Even if it’s just $12.16, or $20, every bit counts and shows that people power beats the power of the chairman of the Appropriations Committee.

I also look forward to calling 5 people who donate today to thank them personally.

If you’ve already given today — thank you! Can you please forward this email to 10 of your friends and ask them to join us?

We are going to win next year because we’ll offer a strong new direction, with the power of all the people tired of the spending and waste from Washington.

On December 16, 1773, a group of Americans who had had enough of a government that didn’t represent them gathered at Boston Harbor and lit the fuse of the Revolution.

Today, these patriots are the inspiration for millions of Americans fighting for their freedom.  The modern Tea Party movement was ignited by the failed $787 billion stimulus package.  The author of that stimulus bill was Dave Obey, the chairman of Appropriations and a member of Congress for 40 years too long.

I am running to permanently retire Dave Obey and end his reign as the king of the spending machine, but I can’t do it alone. This Wednesday, the 236th anniversary of the original Boston Tea Party, I’m asking as many Americans as possible to join me in sending a message to the father of the failed stimulus by contributing whatever they can to retire him in a nationwide moneybomb at StrikeaBlowforFreedom.com.  Can you help us?

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Promoted from diaries by Brian Faughnan.

Sean Duffy seems like an excellent candidate in a swing seat. That’s right – the seat held by Obey leans only marginally toward the Democrats. Duffy is the sort of bright, young candidate who can give America’s spender-in-chief a serious challenge.

Today, I’m announcing that I’m a candidate for Congress in Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional district. I’m challenging Congress’s leading spender, David Obey. We have a chance to make history in the 7th in 2010, but I can only do it with your help. I hope you’ll start by joining our team at DuffyforCongress.com.

First, I’d like to tell you a little bit about myself.

For the last seven years, I’ve been the District Attorney of Ashland County, and I’m proud of my over 90 percent trial success rate. I was raised in Hayward. Rachel and I are proud to be raising our five kids in Northern Wisconsin – because there’s no better place to raise a family than in the great state of Wisconsin.

I’m running for Congress because I think it’s time for new voices and new leadership in Washington. For more than 200 years our country has prospered under the philosophy that the individual – not the government – is the engine of American prosperity. That small businesses and dedicated workers – not government agencies and bureaucrats – generate economic growth and wealth. And yet, in response to the current financial crisis, our leaders in Washington have put their faith, not in the American people, but in the government. My speech to an April 15th Tea Party in Madison sums up my commitment to fiscal responsibility:

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