I'm sorry to bother you again, friend, but I have to ask you to make your first donation to this campaign once more before midnight.

Because you know our first major fundraising deadline of the election year is just hours away.

You know we've got a $30,000 goal to reach in that time.

And you know I don't take corporate PAC money.

So I need you to understand that our campaign will have to make some tough budgetary decisions if we don't close the gap in time.

That means fewer ads on the airwaves, fewer stops along the campaign trail, fewer Coloradans energized by our message and ultimately, fewer votes.

But the magic of a grassroots movement like this is that if everyone reading this right now gave $5 too, we wouldn't just hit our goal with time to spare – we'd have the resources to launch the strongest grassroots preprimary organizing effort in state history.

So I need you to do your part.

If you can spare $5 or a donation of any amount that makes sense for you today, please chip in right away. Reaching this goal will go a long way to ensure we have the grassroots resources to win Colorado's governor's race.

Thanks for bearing with me. It means a lot.

Michael