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National Republican Senatorial Committee: Did you get the survey?
So, I don't normally talk about politics here, but something happaned
last week that I have to talk about. While I was in Boston, a survey
arrived. This survey was called the U.S. Senate Majority Leader's
Survey 2004. It looked a heck of a lot like a typical IRS form. It had
various official looking numbers like a registration number, a voting
district code, even a section on top marked "NRSC Use Only."
Below my address, and in big bold letters was:
NOTICE: This SURVEY DOCUMENT IS REGISTERED IN YOUR NAME and must
be accounted for upon completion of this project. If you choose not to
participate in this crucial Republican Majority Leader's Survey,
return this Survey Document at once using the postage paid envelope
provided.
OFFICIAL REPUBLICAN PARTY DOCUMENT - DO NOT DESTROY
So, at this point, I'm pretty curious. As far as I know (unless
Ashcroft got around to suspending the Constitution), the Republican
National Party has no right to tell me what I can do with my mail.
That being said.... the document is very convincing, and this will
come into play a bit later.
So, the survey itself is what you would expect. A heavily biased set
of questions favoring Bush. I kept expecting a "Should Kerry stop
beating his wife" question. This in itself isn't a big huge deal. I'm
sure Democratic groups put out biased mailings as well. That's kinda
the point. But again, remember the dire warnings and official looking
text that preceeded the questions.
At the end of the survey are three options:
1. YES! I want to help defend our Republican Senate Majority and
build a strong foundation of Republican grassroots support for
President Bush's agenda. I am enclosing my most generous contribution
of ....
2. No. I do not wish to participate in this vital Republican
Majority Leader's Survey. However, I am returning my Survey Document,
along with a generous donation to help build Republican grassroots
support for President Bush's agenda. I am enclosing a donation of:
3. No. I do not wish to participate in the survey, nor do I wish to
make a donation to help the Republican Party. I am returning my Survey
Document, along with a contribution of $11 to help cover the cost of
tabulating and redistributing my Survey.
Now obvious, the red text was my choice, and is the option I want to
focus on. The document, which looks like any other typical government
form, made it very clear that you were not to destroy it. Now, at the
end, you can't return without sending this group eleven dollars.
In general, I tend to think people have a certain responsibility to
have a basic, minimum level of intelligence. Therefore, what this
group is doing is (afaik) technically legal. However, it is slimy.
Damn slimy. How many people will get tricked into thinking they have
to donate eleven dollars to this group? How many people who really
can't afford to donate money? The more I think about this group, the
angrier I get. Maybe I'm totally missing the point here, but this just
seems like pure evil.
Oh, and they have a web site: http://www.nrsc.org. Perhaps folks could
contact them and let them know what you think of this "survey."
On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 10:00:58 -0400, Larry C. Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Exactly. camdenfamily.com is blocked because websense thinks its a
> personal site. So if you could repost it I'd appreciate it. Also could
> you also post the URI to your blog's RSS feed? I'll just have to write
> a quick page to read it and get around this web taliban app.
>
> larry
>
> On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 07:59:35 -0500, Raymond Camden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You want the URL to the blog? Can you not go to
> > www.camdenfamily.com/morpheus/blog? If you can't, let me know and I'll
> > cut and paste it here.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 08:20:43 -0400, Larry C. Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Ray,
> > >
> > > could you repost the url? Unfortunately the content censor here thinks
> > > that your blog is not business related and won't allow access.
> > >
> > > thx,
> > > larry
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 06:34:18 -0500, Raymond Camden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Anyone heard about this group? I posted
> > > > (http://www.camdenfamily.com/morpheus/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=6E071A56-C3C8-DA85-1B47B3383783CE29)
> > > > about an interesting survey I got from them.
> > > >
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> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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