Let me borrow the words from Ultrageek's Florida diary to describe Samm Simpson for you:

FL-10 - St Petersburg.  The reddie incumbent, Bill Young, won this seat last time with 69% of the vote, although Kerry got 48%, so it's not as red as all that.  Our gal is Samm Simpson, and if there was ever a candidate that the Kossacks could get behind, it's the woman who writes, produces and hosts a local television series called "Media is Propaganda", which has been nominated for an Access Pinellas Award.  The district breaks down as 167k red, 152k blue and 101k independents.  She is pro-peace, pro-veteran, pro-balanced-budget, pro-health-care, pro-Union and pro-choice.  She also believes in three equal branches of government with strong checks and balances.  She has raised next to no money and is getting next to no media attention and the DCCC doesn't seem to care much about this either...
FL-10: The odds are that this seat is going to stay red, as purple as the district is, and we missed an opportunity to put a lefty in the House.

It's that last line that resonates the loudest.

Samm has raised less than $3000 online (using Act Blue as her general donation source) as of today (October 9th).  I realize that a wider casting net was most likely needed - more supporters posting more regularly about the campaign and what not - to get Kossack attention on this district and her campaign, but it's not over yet.  Not if we make a stand.

It's a seat with a big incumbent.  It's a seat in a swing-congressional district.  One outside force or another can sway this to the underdog...  And it's not going to take much to make C.W. Young another Foley Flu victim, but it will take a lot more than nothing to accomplish that.

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