fundraising

The B&P 2.0 Fundraiser is just over a week old and we’ve raised durn near half the money.

We love you. Thank you for helping.

As you get ready to celebrate our Declaration of Interdependence, here’s a quick video of some of B&P’s greatest hits over the past three years. Feel free to share it with friends and conservative family members.

If you’d still like to toss $5 in the bucket (or is it a non-working Bureaucrat toilet?), well, we’d be most appreciative.

And if you’re interested in advertising on the site — if that’s how you might like to gift your money (and reach thousands of the smartest Kentuckians Kentucky’s ever known) — you can send an email to: barefootandprogressive AT gmail DOT com

Space if filling up fast! Get one now! Joe says step on it!

And also, if you watched the video then you heard (and were probably enamored with) the sweet sounds of Lexington’s own super-talent, Matt Duncan. You can buy his album through his site, www.matt-duncan.com, or you can listen to more of his great tunes at Bandcamp.

The Barefoot and Progressive 2.0 Fundraiser has been going for less than a week, and we’re almost halfway there!

If you appreciate what we do and would like to chip in on our server/host/website/graphics/awesomeness update, please consider clicking on that big donate button below and giving what you can.

A huge thanks to all of the readers and supporters who have poured in donations over the last week. I would go into more detail about how much your contribution means to me, but I need to keep up my public facade as the cold and heartless slayer of conservatives. I hope you understand. But really, a huge thanks to all of you.

For the rest of you out there that haven’t chipped in: the sooner we get to our goal, the sooner we can upgrade, and the sooner I can focus more time and trouble on the folks that deserve it. Plus, with a minimum $10 contribution, I will be giving out one free dinosaur ride! I swear.

Onward!

It’s day three of the Barefoot & Progressive 2.0 fundraising drive and we’re going strong!

Almost fifty kind souls have generously chipped in so far. Earlier this afternoon we topped the $1,000 mark. That is, in a word, awesome.

Still nothing from Rand Paul or the Big Monied Coal folks… which is strange. But we’re patient.

If you’ve already given, we thank you adamantly. You kick ass.

If you haven’t, there’s still time and we’d appreciate it. We understand times are tough and if you ain’t got it, you can help in other ways… encouraging your friends and family and coworkers, for example. Heck, you can even lie to them and tell them you gave $10 and challenge them to match it. They don’t have to know and we won’t tell.

Over half of the donations have come in amounts smaller than $20… no amount is too little, every single cent helps. One of our resident critc-commenters even promised to give a pocket full of nickels. We’ll take it!

Yesterday we wondered aloud if anyone would be willing to top the $50 mark and, lo, it happened! Four excellent readers one-upped the competition and tossed in $51 each, and one very smart contestant went in for $52.

But alas, that was not all! We got our first $100 donation just a couple hours ago and that, friends, means the bar is raised.

Who out there is feeling the itch to Price-Is-Right our current leader?

Click the DONATE BUTTON, spread the word, and thank you! for reading, for giving and for helping to show the world that Kentucky is more than Mitch McConnell and some nutball who wants to starve grandma to death.

In Commonwealth,
The B&P Team

Oh, we’re not done yet!

As we told you yesterday afternoon, Barefoot and Progressive is making the big leap to a new website/server, which is going to require a significant chunk of change. So we’re asking you, our brilliant and attractive readers, to help us make that possible by contributing whatever you can to the cause, whether that be $5 or $50 or more. We’ve had about two dozen people pitch in over the last 24 hours, all under $50, and every little bit helps. You might even be daring enough to be the first to give $51!

If you’d like to assist in speeding the process along and helping Barefoot and Progressive boldly go where no snarky Kentucky liberal rabble rousing blog has gone before, please consider clicking on that big thermometer or donate button below.

Onward!

OK folks, we here at Barefoot and Progressive have decided that it’s finally time to graduate from our Blogger/Blogspot platform and make the big leap onto our very own server. This will allow us to greatly improve the site (WordPress!) and upgrade your daily Lexington/Kentucky political fix experience.

Yes, it’s time for Barefoot & Progressive 2.0!

But in order to make this big switch, it’s going to cost us some serious dough. We have to pay for:

• sufficient web hosting server power to handle the flow of traffic and maintain browser speed
• the hiring of web wizards to transfer over the 3-plus years of B&P archives, so that links are re-directed and Google rankings are not lost
• web and graphic design goodness

Unfortunately, this kind of stuff ain’t cheap. So we’re asking you, our loyal readers, to contribute whatever you can spare to help us meet our goal. We’re setting a goal of $5,000 to cover these costs of the move to a new website, plus the additional costs that we’ll incur in order to cover the 2011 statewide races on the ground all over the state this summer and fall.

If all of our regular readers chip in $10 each, we’ll reach this goal without breaking a sweat. But that’s the big “if”. So if you see value in the service that we at Barefoot and Progressive provide (liberal muckraking, analysis, coverage and troublemaking in general), I ask you to please consider clicking on the donate button below and giving what you can (either through paypal or credit card… if you’re more comfortable paying by check, please email me at barefootandprogressive AT gmail DOT com):

A big thanks to everyone for their support over the last three plus years, and a big thanks to the folks willing to chip in and let Barefoot and Progressive make our next big step. The sooner we can get close to our goal, the sooner we’ll get to share a shiny happy snarky B&P 2.0 with you!

*(same rules apply as before: if you are a current elected official or current political candidate in Kentucky, your donations will not be accepted. Also, contributions will have zero effect on the content of this site. No exceptions.)