The Help the Homeless Walkathon was a resounding success! We far exceeded our goal of raising $500 for team Justin Schuck by raising $860 in online and offline donations.

I want to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart for their thoughtful donations, especially Shane King, Marti Cullen, Barbara and Bob Salvucci, Keith Richburg, Carl Tugberk, Ilissa Suss and Marisa Sellinger-Fisher. I also want to thanks Mariana Reynolds and Christina Hee for joining my team and helping me raise money, and Mabel and Michael Reynolds for walking with us on Saturday.

Our beneficiary organization, the Central Union Mission, received hundreds of dollars from various organizations and individuals, but I am pleased to say that team Justin Schuck was the most successful single team. And while that is all fine and dandy, next year I want to raise more than double that amount. They do terrific work with men in DC and provide a safe stable environment that helps the men help themselves with job and skills training among other things. Bottom line: it's a great cause and we are going to raise more money, walk with a larger team and continue doing the work that serves the greater good.

Labels: Charity, Help the Homeless, Justin Schuck, Volunteer

JOIN MY TEAM

Or better yet...

GIVE ME MONEY

As many of you know, helping the homeless has been a lifelong concern of mine. My business philosophy has always been guided by these perishables. As it states on my company's website: "I have worked hard over the years to encourage my clients and employees to join me in service efforts for the homeless; for disaster victims; for needy orphans and foster children; and those suffering the ravages of cancer. The success and well-being of one is nothing without the success of all." Helping the homeless is less about giving money, but about changing lives. I've designated the Central Union Mission as my beneficiary organization. Visit their website and learn how they are helping the homeless with a hand up, not just a hand out.

So help me raise money towards my personal goal of $300 and a team goal of $500. I want everyone to join in and walk with me. It will be great fun. If every client and every friend gave me just $5 towards this goal, I could far exceed my goal.

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I would also like to wish my mother a very happy birthday today. I won't say how old she is, just that she's old enough to have a son with gray hair. Thanks mom for everything you've done and continue to do. You are the glue that binds our family.

I voted. I don't know about you, but I just get so damn energized casting an election ballot. I hope that in twenty years' time that I still have the same energy in voting. I firmly believe to my core that the only way to effect change is to cast a vote. To my idiot friends who don't vote or to those who aren't registered: you are the reason other's mock American-style democracy.

As expected, I cast my ballot for Scott Rolle for the office of Attorney General. Over the last few months I have had the opportunity to be with the man, and understand the man. I know from the bottom of my heart that Scott would serve Maryland well and that he would make the best, fairest and most honest Attorney General. Please, if you haven't voted, please consider voting for Scott. Learn more about Scott at the attention-grabbing website that I designed: ScottRolle.com

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The Gazette of Politics and Business made the astute decision to interview me about my experience designing political websites. I will admit, as I did in my interview with Chuck Ford, that I am a novice to political websites, but as many of you know I have designed and collaborated on projects for companies from Stone Photography to Visa International to the movie Melting Glass to the National Union of Jewish Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, Intersex, Queer and Questioning Students (NUJLS) — that's a mouthful!

While I may have never previously designed a candidate's website, I was able to bring something that Scott wanted: a fresh outlook. Scott campaigned to be the different, independent candidate, and he needed an attention-grabbing website that had broad appeal and functionality. In the article I am quoted as saying "'My initial response was I wouldn't help another Republican win statewide office in Maryland,' Schuck said. But after the meeting, 'I felt he was a good enough man that I could help him theoretically get into office.'" Where I was misquoted: I want Scott to win. I have since our first meeting. There was an energy inside of him that electrified the room. I was, and continue to be, captivated by his honesty. And that, above all else, is the integrity that sways my vote in every election.

Please vote for Scott. Maryland needs this competent, humble prosecutor in Baltimore fighting for justice.