Let me refresh your memory

 

Hey, it's Jesse — Jamaal's Finance Director. DIS

This year, our grassroots movement will go up against a major obstacle on our path to keep Jamaal in Congress — the new redistricting maps for NY-16. For the past few weeks, we've detailed to you just how much of a change these new maps will bring to our campaign strategy, and these changes are even more impactful now that we know of a potential new challenger to Jamaal's seat.

Hitting our fundraising goals month over month allows us to create a safety net of support for Jamaal and our campaign during these drastic changes to our election landscape. As a people-powered movement, we need to come together in moments like these to ensure that our momentum is maintained and our movement continues to grow.

If you don't remember how drastic the newly proposed NY-16 maps are, let me refresh your memory:

These new boundaries add on a massive new area of New York that we'll have to hit hard with our voter outreach efforts. Our in-district voter demographics will see a major shift — with a 10% decrease in Black voters and a 27% decrease in Latino voters. What's more, the new northern part of the proposed district is both less dense and less accessible by public transit, so mobilizing our volunteers to reach these new areas will be even more challenging, expensive, and time consuming than before.

The new maps will also cut off strong, progressive areas where we already know we have Jamaal's support and will bring in about 15% more Trump supporters. And the addition of a potential, more moderate challenger means that we'll need to be even more proactive and determined in our voter outreach efforts. So it's crucial that we're prepared to take on the costs of our growing organizing efforts.

We can't afford to lose out on any opportunity to grow our base of supporters and ensure NY-16 remains a progressive district. So please help us reach our end-of-month fundraising goal with a contribution of $10 or any amount and help us prepare for the fights ahead.

Let's do this,

Jesse Guy-Herman, Finance Director
Bowman for Congress

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To contribute via check, please address to: Bowman for Congress, 81 Pondfield Rd, Suite D 351 Bronxville, NY, 10708

More right-leaning and less diverse

 

A few months ago, we saw the first draft of redistricting maps in New York — maps that included our very own congressional district — and now, the state's Independent Redistricting Commission is slated to vote on these maps on January 3.

Unfortunately, if these proposed maps go through, securing re-election for Jamaal will be more difficult than we planned for. (We'll explain why below.)

We need to be prepared for everything and anything, and that starts with having a strong fundraising base going into 2022. That's why we're hoping you'll support us as we strive to reach our $75,000 end-of-year fundraising goal.

To give you an idea of how this will impact us, here's where our boundaries are now, and where they could be:

• The Bronx — including the area that included the middle school Jamaal taught at for years — will be all but removed from his district. 
• Democratic voters in general are expected to be significantly more moderate than they are in Jamaal's current district. 
• The proposed new district's population will be about one-third more Republican and one-third less Black than Jamaal's current district.

In short, the proposed map gives Jamaal a more right-leaning and less diverse electorate. This means that Jamaal will face more moderate challengers to his seat, and make securing re-election and staying in Congress more challenging and expensive than anticipated.

What's more, New York will lose a House seat in redistricting — and come 2022, Democrats will be scrambling to hang onto our super-narrow majority.

Jamaal's work is just getting started in Congress. As one of the strongest progressive voices we have in the House, his leadership is critical to the success of our progressive agenda — and we need to make sure that we have all the tools we need to keep him in Washington for years to come.

So please make your best donation today — of $10 or any other amount — and help us reach our $75,000 end-of-year goal so we can best prepare for the year and fights ahead.

Thank you,

Luke Hayes, Campaign Manger
Bowman for Congress

As the Organizing Director for Team Bowman, it's my job to look towards the future and help to carve out a robust game plan to mobilize, energize, and set our progressive movement up for success.

And in 2022, I know there will be plenty of opportunities to see our movement succeed, but only if we have the funds, and the support, to help us reach our goals.

There are over 775,000 potential voters in NY-16. So that means, we'll need to put even more effort into outreach, promotions, and on-the-ground canvassing to gear up for our re-election campaigns. In 2022, we're going to need to hone in on a whole new group of untapped voters and potential supporters who may not know who Jamaal is just yet.

It takes $0.10 to reach out to a single voter in NY-16 and mobilize them to join our movement. So if we scale up our math, we can calculate that just one donation of $5 means we can mobilize at least 50 potential voters, a donation of $10 means we can reach out to 100 NY-16 voters, and so on and so forth.

In addition, the more we grow our progressive momentum, the more opportunities we'll be able to take in support of our communities through canvassing, volunteering, and mutual aid efforts. We're going to need a dedicated and massive base of supporters to ensure that our progressive momentum continues to flourish while Jamaal fights for us in Congress.

The point is, small numbers can add up to a massive impact for our progressive movement. With your donation, we can ensure that our team continues to proactively plan our voter outreach efforts and continue to turnout the vote for Jamaal. 

Onward together,

Kelsie O'Leary, Organizing 
Bowman for Congress

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Our campaign is powered by grassroots supporters chipping in to emails just like this one. 

To contribute via check, please address to: Bowman for Congress, 81 Pondfield Rd, Suite D 351 Bronxville, NY, 10708

There's no question, Jamaal is the progressive champion for NY-16

 

With September well underway, and the end of the FEC quarter speeding towards us, we're doubling down on our efforts to make September one of the strongest fundraising months our campaign has ever seen.

Together, our grassroots campaign has moved mountains and continues to push our progressive coalition further than ever before — but we know there's still so much more work to be done before the quarter ends.

With the bipartisan Senate infrastructure and reconciliation bills looming, along with the critical attention needed for those who've been continuously affected by our growing climate crisis, and more — our communities need bold, progressive, and thoughtful representation to bring us the solutions we need.

There's no question: Jamaal is the progressive champion for NY-16, but our continued success and progressive momentum depends completely on how hard we fight for it. 

When we elect our representatives into office, we have complete faith in their ability to bring long-lasting, beneficial change to our communities. We believe in their capacity to provide policies and solutions that truly meet the scale and scope of the issues we face. And most importantly, we believe in these elected representatives to have our communities' best interests at heart when in Congress.

Yet when it comes to our best interests, many of our elected representatives — both Republican and conservative Democrats alike — have chosen time and again to put profits over the needs of the people.

Democrats like Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin have positioned themselves against the progressive coalition in hopes of maintaining financial support from corporate donors. The result? Key policies like child care, climate action, education, affordable housing, clean energy, healthcare and the expansion of Medicare, and so much more are at risk. And unless we continue building up our progressive coalition, we'll continue to see our needs be pushed to the side in favor of big checks and harmful policies.

Let's give Jamaal and our progressive campaign the grassroots push we need to keep amplifying our values and community needs in Congress and beyond. Please chip in to our campaign today so we can keep fighting for the progressive change our communities deserve.

Thank you for your support,

Team Bowman

PAID FOR BY BOWMAN FOR CONGRESS

To contribute via check, please address to: Bowman for Congress, 81 Pondfield Rd, Suite D 351 Bronxville, NY, 10708