I don’t NEED any more friends. In fact…some of the friends I do have I don’t even like!
But first he sends me a Christmas card with an (I assume) autopenned signature and it wishes me a happy holidays. OK, that I can write off as a gesture.
Yesterday I got a letter from him! Also pre-printed and autopen signed.
Now what the hell is up with that? Is he stalking me? I gave him no ‘support’ in the election? I gave money to Dean and Kerry/Edwards!
For God’s sake…I was one of the ‘Ohio Business Leaders for Kerry/Edwards’ and did an editorial in my pub endorsing Kerry!
He’s getting to be like that creepy guy in college who wanted to join my circle but never quite figured out how.
Something similar happened to a friend a couple of years ago. Like you, she had no connections to his campaign. All of a sudden, she started getting friendly e-mails and invitations to fundraising events. At about the same time, I read in the paper about someone else who was receiving the same type of correspondence. In both cases, the recipient had previously donated to Democratic campaigns.
My thought was that someone had taken a list of Dem donors and shared it. Maybe it’s happened again…?
You think they really put a lot of thought into who gets these things?
A long time ago J. Peter Grace headed a commission that looked into federal government “waste.” Senator Alan Cranston (D, CA) was hot to implement the recommendations of the report. George Will, of all people, looked into the details of the methodology and data of the report. Or more likely he had his staff look into it. Will then wrote a column detailing the report’s many failings; wrong assumptions, faulty comparisons and on and on.
I clipped the column and sent a copy of it to Sen. Cranston along with my comment that reducing waste was an admirable goal but in view of Will’s analysis the Grace Report didn’t appear to be the way to go. In due time I got a response thanking me for my support of the Senator’s efforts to reduce waste in government.
I’ve on more than one occasion sense letters expressing various opinions to my elected representatives and more than once recieved responses that clearly showed whoever was in charge of the form letter response hadn’t read my letter.
How weird. All of the letters I’ve sent to people in government, even the ones that brushed me off, showed at least a cursory understanding of the letter I’d sent.
(My most recent coup was getting a city councillor to phone me at home about an email I’d sent.)
Last January, my mom had her 82-year-old mother put on a list for birthday greetings from the White House (apparently they’ll send cards to U.S. citizens over 80). My grandmother hates George W. Bush with a passion and was extremely annoyed that my mom did this.
I’m wondering if grandma will get a similar letter thanking her for her work on the Bush re-election campaign.
Well, getting friendly letters from him is okay, just so long as he doesn’t want to crash at your house on St. Patrick’s day. The last thing you want on your living room couch the day after is a hungover nuclear power.
I think you can write “Refused” on it and put it back in the mail box.
I regularly get requests for financial help from Republican organizations. When they include a return envelope with postage paid I always return the empty envelope. If I could find a source of cheap sheet lead I’d cut off a hunk of that and put it in the envelope.
