Today is the last day of the FEC’s fundrais­ing quar­ter. Your favorite Con­gress­crit­ters and can­di­dates will file forms based on how much mon­ey they’ve raised and spent as of today, and what those num­bers look like will shape per­cep­tions of the races in 2008. 

If you’ve got a favorite in the Pres­i­den­tial races, today is a good day to drop some mon­ey on that can­di­date. But this dead­line is more crit­i­cal for Sen­ate and espe­cial­ly House races. 

Nan­cy Boy­da has been work­ing hard to rep­re­sent her con­stituents, con­stituents who had for­got­ten what it meant to have a rep­re­sen­ta­tive who cared. The Repub­li­cans have rolled out their slime machine, and they want that seat back. They’ve attacked her with lies and by smears of pop­u­lar bills she’s sup­port­ed which pun­ish offi­cial cor­rup­tion, pro­tect work­ers’ rights, pro­tect our sol­diers and push for a sane end to the occu­pa­tion of Iraq. She’s been a lit­tle con­ser­v­a­tive for a lot of peo­ple’s tastes, but that fits the district.

I also want to point out the impor­tance of Jer­ry McN­er­ney. He’s a busi­ness­man and a sci­en­tist, with a back­ground in renew­able ener­gy pro­duc­tion. He also man­aged to unseat the exe­crable Richard Pom­bo, derail­ing the for­mer Rep.‘s jihad against endan­gered species. He’s one of the GOP’s top tar­gets, right up there with Nan­cy. Please help them if you can.