Lucas,
Public Citizen gets into your bones . . .
For the hundreds of thousands of people like you, from every corner of America and all walks of life, who make Public Citizen the unparalleled force for progress that it is.
For Robert Weissman and his dedicated, talented staff.
And for former presidents of the organization like myself.
When you put as much as you and I have into the incredible work Public Citizen does to keep people and democracy safe from overreaching corporate greed, you become part of Public Citizen, and it becomes part of you.
That's why I'm so thrilled when we can work together to build Public Citizen's strength.
Please join me in supporting Public Citizen by contributing right now — when your gift will be matched dollar for dollar up to $100,000.
Do me a favor and make your donation before the deadline this Monday at midnight.
It would be a shame to miss the chance for your support to go twice as far in giving Public Citizen the power to take on the foes of progress.
Those foes of progress — billionaire oligarchs like the notorious Koch Brothers, corporate behemoths like Exxon Mobil and Bank of America, far-right "dark money" political operatives like Karl Rove, and Big Business flacks like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — have essentially limitless reservoirs of cash.
One of the things I love about Public Citizen is that we have the people power — along with the facts, the experience, the credibility and the idealism — to fight for progress without resorting to simply buying everything, and everyone, we want.
But the work we're doing together does take some modest financial resources.
With this $100,000 dollar-for-dollar match in effect, there just couldn't be a better time to lend your financial support to Public Citizen.
Nobody knows better than I do how efficient and responsible Public Citizen is.
I proudly serve on its board of directors. And I can tell you that the March 31 deadline — the midpoint of Public Citizen's fiscal year — is critical to determining how aggressive we can be for the next six months.
That includes exposing and counteracting the billionaire and Big Business money that pours into this year's midterm elections, which will occur under the ongoing specter of the U.S. Supreme Court's destructive Citizens United ruling and, quite possibly, an equally disastrous decision in the McCutcheon case.
So please donate whatever you can right now, before the Monday deadline.
Since its founding 43 years ago, Public Citizen has forged a legacy of progress unmatched by any other public interest organization in the country.
Thank you for being part of all that this one-of-a-kind organization continues to accomplish, and for letting its legacy be part of who you are.
Sincerely,
Joan Claybrook
President Emeritus and Board Member, Public Citizen