The calls I get start out by talking about police, fire fighters and breast caner. In the end, they are collecting money for a PAC (political action committee) to support legislators who support the police and breast cancer. Therefore, the funds can go to any politician (even those you oppose) because every politician supports the police and breast cancer to some extent.
We got a snail-mail version of this a while back. The return address was somewhere in Wisconsin and the name mentioned supporting police. While I had Informed Delivery open, I looked them up via Google and found that they are a PAC for Republicans. Whatever that was went straight from the mailbox to the trash.