Welcome To Miss Chestnut Goes to Denver Fundraising Campaign

My name is LaKeisha M. Chestnut. I am the author of "Keeping It Real with LaKeisha" and I am an elected delegate for Congressional District 7 in the State of Alabama. I am honored to be apart of the most important election in my lifetime. I am one of the only two Young Democrats in the State of Alabama that was elected as a delegate.

I have been involved in politics since I was 22. In 1998, I was a volunteer on Don Siegleman’s campaign. Then in 2000, I was part of Al Gore’s campaign in New Hampshire. I had the honor of meeting him and Tipper after a debate at Dartmouth College. I was a volunteer on Jeanne Shaheen’s gubernatorial campaign, and as well as John Kerry’s presidential campaign in 2004.  I was happy to be involved, but my shining moment didn’t come until 2005.

In February of 2005, I was living in Orlando, Florida, and I attended my first Orange County Young Democrats meeting. I met a few people who thought I would be a valuable asset to the organization and asked if I would run for a position on the executive board. At first, I thought that I shouldn’t run because I didn’t know anything about Florida politics, and how would people take me, an outsider, as a member of the executive board. Then I realized that I have a voice, and I wanted to represent those who didn’t. I decided to run as Community Affairs Vice president. I won overwhelmingly. My job was to put a face to our organization in the community, and I did just that. I organized a voter registration/petition drive at the Juneteenth Celebration. When there was no one to attend events that supported democratic interests in Orlando, I was there. I was a asked to be a volunteer and a delegate for Sen. Rod Smith at the Florida Democratic Party State Convention.  I even helped a fellow young democrat with his campaign when he ran and won a seat on House of Representatives. My voice was invaluable. I was happy being apart of an organization that was on the brink of extinction. The 2005-2006 Orange County YD Executive board made the organization a force to reckon with. In fact, we were going to work with the Tampa Bay YDs and the Daytona Beach YDs to have an I-4 corridor gubernatorial forum featuring the candidates for Governor. I was proud of our accomplishments and still am to this day.

I am raising money in a variety of ways. I hope you can help me in one of these ways.

Come to my events

No events are scheduled at this time. I may schedule one big one in August before I go to Denver. I will keep you posted.

Check out my fundraising sites

If you can't make it to an event, you can go to this site, sponsored by ElectionMall (Thanks, Robbie and team!!)

They were gracious enough to let me get a site through them to help me raise funds, and I am sooooooo grateful for them.