Our esteemed friend and colleague Blue Gal is applying for a Democracy for America Scholarship, to help defray the cost of Netroots Nation for herself and her fiance Driftglass. Vote here to send these terrific podcasters/bloggers (contributors to C&L since 2007) to Netroots Nation.

There are a lot of good people up for the scholarships, but let me tell you why you should support Blue Gal. Not only has she been blogging since 2004, you'd be hard pressed to find another blogger who so generously champions small blogs. (She also organizes the Blog against Theocracy blogswarm every year.)

And that's not all. She's one of the people who make the wheels work behind the scenes here and writes most of our nightly open threads.

A vote for Blue Gal doesn't mean you can't vote for anyone else -- you get three. A full list of applicants is here.

But we'd really, really, really like it if you'd click here to vote for Blue Gal. Thanks!