Won't you help kick the Gleaner out of town?

With your help, an impressively credentialed but underprivileged blogger can go to Denver and file entertaining yet trenchant reports from the Democratic National Convention. Won't you click on the donate button and make a generous contribution today?

Don't like that pitch? How about this one ...

Hard to believe that anyone would have feelings for the humble Gleaner other than the warm and cuddly kind. And yet there are those who wish your Gleaner would just go away. Well now, they (and you!) can help make that wish come true. Sort of. For a few days, anyway. By clicking on the donate button.

Haven't clicked yet? Perhaps a little explanation is in order...

Some may remember last month when Howie Dean his own self announced via (slow-loading) video that  the Gleaner was picked as Nevada's representative in the state blogger corps at the Democratic National Convention in Denver in August.

What does it mean? Damned if Gleaner knows, except: a) apparently it's another honor reserved mostly for white people, so looks like that came in handy yet again, and b) the party will bestow snazzy credentials allowing posts to be filed — gasp! — from right smackity dabbity on the convention floor in the midst of the state's delegation.

Yes, most impressive, though there's a nagging hunch on this end that the best reports will be prompted by stuff that happens away from the convention floor.

Anyway, as one real and honest-to-goodness Gleaner reader actually and genuinely said, "You have to go so that those of us who don't can read pithy dispatches."

Deal!

Just one little thing. Unlike some other Nevadans who write blogs, the Gleaner receives neither a salary (let alone an expense account) from a profitable media organization, nor a handsome income provided by secret fat cat contributors through a shadowy tax-exempt front group.

Yes, by all means, praise be to the growing number of insightful, enlightened advertisers who recognize that the Gleaner is the most cost-effective way to reach affluent, educated opinion-leaders, bar none. Perhaps you'd care to join them.

And Gleaner will probably use the convention to knock out some local freelance work that might generate several, which is to say more than eleven, American dollars.

But still, footing the bill to Denver is going to be a tad dicey.

So won't you help by contributing generously to the Kick the Gleaner Out of Town fund?

(Unless of course you can't afford it — it's always the people who can least afford it who are most eager to give, don't you agree?)

Please?

As Dean Heller would say, gracias.

Comments

[Myrna the Minx]

Hey, where can I find a profitable media organization or a secret fat cat?

Hey, if I donate will you kick off Mike Zahara ala JLA style?

[Nancy]

I'm telling everyone I know that they need to send you! Good luck!

[dave404]

Per your link of people who want you out of town, like dumb ass GOP 'leader' Sue Lowden, I note she states 2 outrageous items in her posting that you linked.

1. “If we squeeze the taxpayers any further, we will not have the ability to provide our state with the revenues it needs to fund our essential services." YET THE DONOR CLASSES' CHARITIES AND FOUNDATIONS RECEIVE $35,000,000 IN TWO SENATE BILL FROM 2007. SCHOOLS GO WITHOUT, YET REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLY CANDIDATE CHERYL LAU GETS $50,000 OF TAXPAYER MONEY FOR HER CHINESE WORKERS MUSEUM WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO BE BUILT WHICH CHINESE GOVERNMENT MONEY. (that is just one example).

2. "During these difficult times, it would send a horrible and defeating message to provide our state employees with a nearly 10 percent pay increase." THE ONLY ONES GETTING A 10% PAY INCREASE ARE THE UNCLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES IN REPUBLICAN LT. GOVERNOR KROLICKI'S OFFICE; THE ONE'S HE PERSONALLY LOBBIED FOR A BIG FAT PAY RAISE!!!

Oh, Sue Lowden another lier not helping with public policy issues.....no wonder the MSM asks Chuck Muth what the fuck is going on with republicans with a government teat in their mouths! *sigh*

[dave404]

whildst I was in the GOP dump, I read Senator Bob Beers input on the Special Session;

"“We are to the point where the choice is to give substantial pay increases … totaling nearly 10 percent for most public employees … or lay some public employees off."

I note that republicrats seem to be liers, Bob Beers is a lier, he knows he is alier and yet he can't seem to stop himself. The GOP hooks up to a lie and all Hitler like they all tell the same lie...so here is the truth;

LT. GOV. KROLICKI, A REPUBLICAN, LOBBIED FOR HIS NON CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES (THOSE HE HIRES HIMSELF), TO GET A 9.6% PAY INCREASE! The rest of the suckers in the State get 4%.

[Pedro]

Gleaner-

Are you telling me Steve Sebelius can't bankroll your trip? What the hell? Did someone else on CityLife's staff get credentials?

[Zeke]

Zeke is going, but as a Beer and Popcorn Vender. $6.00/hour AND I get floor credentials. And free popcorn.