Former Gov. Jennifer Granholm, D-Mich., who gave a wild speech at the Democratic National Convention, is now fundraising for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Granholm relied on the sustained use of water imagery to make her appeal for funding. “If we don’t close the spending gap with the Republican Super PACs right now, we may see our candidates washed out with ads in the final weeks of the campaign,” Granholm said in a fundraising email. “The tidal wave of attack ads hitting our candidates right now could be devastating to our chances in November. They’re saturating the airwaves from California to New York, and threaten to swamp our candidates’ in the final run up to Election Day.”