I’m Wes Walls, a communications consultant in Washington, D.C.
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[...] Wes, a communications consultant in DC, agrees that the grassroots is fired up about finding its fundraising voice in this election: [I]f you think independent voters are troubled by Obama’s fundraising rather than simply impressed by it […], then I think you have badly misread the political climate. […] The idea that the “hopes and dreams” of supporters will coming crashing down because of this decision, when many Obama supporters and contributers like me are proud of our participation in his grassroots fundraising machine, is simply absurd. We Obama supporters are not going to turn our cheeks while independent groups circumvent campaign finance laws to smear Obama as a Muslim, Marxist, and all the rest. [...]