Chuck DeVore's United States Senate Campaign Wins a "Shorty Award" for Best Political Use of Twitter

The Wall Street Journal Gives Chuck DeVore Front Page Treatment for His Innovative Use of Social Media

Irvine, Calif., February 4, 2009 - California State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore's campaign for United States Senate announced today that the campaign won a "Shorty Award" for the best producer of political content on Twitter in 2008.   Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging utility.

Chuck DeVore and Justin Hart, DeVore for California's Director of New Media, will be traveling to New York City to accept the award in a ceremony hosted by CNN anchor Rick Sanchez featuring appearances by Shaquille O'Neal and MC Hammer.

The DeVore for California campaign beat out prominent competitors to win the Shorty with its use of a first-of-a-kind fully integrated Twitter fundraising effort at www.TweetforChuck.com.  The goal of www.TweetforChuck.com was to net the campaign 100 new donors in 24 hours.  So far, 169 supporters from all over America have signed up to help Chuck DeVore defeat Senator Barbara Boxer in 2010.

Chuck DeVore's innovative use of the Internet in his campaign caught the attention of the Wall Street Journal last Friday which headlined Mr. DeVore on the front page along with one of the Journal's trademark pencil point drawings.

DeVore for California's most recent online effort was the creation of the "Obama Tax Calculator" lampooning Timothy Geithner and Tom Daschle.  The calculator proved so popular that heavy traffic briefly overwhelmed the campaign's Web page.  

The campaign's latest online ad spoofs the stimulus package now being debated in the U.S. Senate, drawing a comparison to the massive pork barrel spending bill Boxer supports to the Prego Spaghetti sauce "It's in there!" ad campaign of the early 1980s.  About the almost $1 trillion bill, Boxer said "Writing this bill is like making sausage" so comparing it to spaghetti sauce is not a stretch.

Chuck DeVore has been unanimously endorsed by California's Republican members of the State Assembly with 57 percent of all partisan elected Republicans in California endorsing his campaign for U.S. Senate in 2010.   
 
Online contributions to DeVore for California may be made at:
 https://www.fundraisingbynet.net/fbn/contributeFederal.asp?guidRegistration=585B5B5B&guidContributeFund=5D5D5E&amount=20. DeVore for California's Facebook page is at: www.facebook.com/pages/Chuck-DeVore/22771210763. On Twitter: http://twitter.com/chuckdevore. The campaign's Website is: www.ChuckDeVore.com.