How to save 250 million dollars per congressional district

by digby

Darcy Burner is one of the few candidates in this cycle talking constantly about the war in Afghanistan. She’s been holding town hall meetings all over the district with General Paul Eaton, offering a sophisticated and detailed plan to withdraw, explaining the stakes and the difficulties to her constituents. She’s very serious on these issues and anyone who has been to her presentations knows that she is highly informed about the issue. She says:

In 2003, when my son Henry was a few months old, my brother Jason marched into Iraq with the initial invading force. I realized that no set of choices I could make would give Henry the kind of life I wanted him to have if we didn’t change the direction of the country.

In 2007, I worked with retired Major General Paul Eaton to write A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq, which was endorsed by more than 60 candidates for the U.S. House and U.S. Senate, including Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, Congresswoman Donna Edwards, Congressman Jared Polis, and Senator Jeff Merkley.

In 2010, I worked as part of the Afghanistan Study Group on their report called A New Way Forward which laid out why and how the U.S. needs to end the war in Afghanistan and bring our troops and the $100 billion per year we are spending there home. That is $250 million per Congressional District per year!

People are voting in Washington right now and top-two primaries are hard to predict. She can reach 25,000 potential voters with this succinct, straightforward message and needs to raise some money to do it.

You can contribute to Darcy’s campaign here if you’d like to help.

I wish more candidates would make this part of their message. There’s a common sense aspect to it to which I think a lot of people can relate.