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Losing a home to fire takes a toll on nearly every aspect of one's life. When a high profile campaign for the U.S. House is part of that life, the price gets distributed on to thousands more people, whether they are active campaign volunteers, or merely constituents who passively miss out on normal campaigning. Such was the case last week when 8th District Democrat Darcy Burner lost her home to fire.

Fortunately for Burner many of her constituents, along with well-wishers across the country, have banded together to help ease the campaign burdens she will undoubtedly face in the coming weeks as she and her family move forward with their post-fire lives. The campaigns financial burdens, at least.

Spurred on by calls from bloggers across the country, Burner has raised over $110,000 from more than 2,000 contributors on the fundraising site ActBlue since last Tuesday's fire.

Governor Chris Gregoire, who held a press conference on June 18 on the subject of negative 527 ads leveled against her by the Dino Rossi-backing BIAW, has taken her act to a national crowd. Gregoire wrote a blog post on the left-leaning blog Daily Kos today to sound a warning to Democrats across the country.

Citing the recent brouhaha over the BIAW's ChangePAC radio ads in Washington, Gregoire suggested that third party attack ads would be prevalent nationally because of John McCain's fundraising gap with Barack Obama.

Below is a sample of what Gregoire wrote about the situation.