Chop Wood, Carry MI 10/5 🚗

Hi, all.

Sorry for the two emails in one week but I got an urgent request from an Indivisible member on the ground in Michigan so I wanted to get this out ASAP. She says:

I wanted to bring to your attention one of our more important races.

In Michigan State Senate district 9 a current State House representative is running for Senate in a tight race in a newly configured district which leans Republican, but which we can flip. This race is crucial to flipping our legislature and enabling Michigan to get things done! And it is a race that is being targeted nationally because of this.

The Dem candidate, Padma Kuppa, is supported by the States Project, Sister District, and the East Bay Activist Alliance and we are working really hard to move the Republican area that she is running in to Democratic.

Padma is the only Asian American who flipped a competitive state legislative seat in 2018 and then won reelection in 2020.  She is also the first Hindu woman elected to office in the U.S.

About 2/3 of the new district has been a part of Padma’s current state house area and we know her well. She has been relentless in canvassing and holding events in the new areas, but still remains relatively unknown. We want everyone to know that she has been one of the most responsive and hardest working representatives we have, shows up to and provides information at all our Indivisible meetings, and is remarkably accessible. She is looking for phonebanking and other outreach help in these final weeks.

Upcoming phonebanks for Padma: https://www.mobilize.us/electpadmakuppa/event/523221/

Textbank with Team Padma: https://www.mobilize.us/electpadmakuppa/event/520996/

Other opportunities are at mobilize.us/electpadmakuppa and we thank everyone for considering this race and helping build a strong Michigan, which will have a large nationwide impact in 2024 as well. (We need a Democratic legislature to protect our electoral votes.)

Please do anything you can to assist this amazing and important candidate! Oh, and donations are apparently really important, too. You can do that here. (Kuppa is on Blue Tent’s list of the top ten races IN THE COUNTRY to give to. WOW!)

Thanks, and more soon,

Jess