Showing posts with label fundraising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fundraising. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Oh, Please! "Please Donate"

Good grief! Won't these people ever stop?

“Please donate” to Barack Obama. To the man we keep hearing has $30 million in the bank from leftover funds!

Please!

The"asks" came in two emails, no less, on consecutive days. The nerve of those people!

First, David Plouffe, Obama’s campaign manager, writes asking that we continue, c o n t i n u e, campaign meetings at home. Please! Can we ever get a break? We are supposed to do this for the next four years?

To promote Obama’s platform? Please don't try to kid me it's "our" platform.

“At the house meetings, you'll reflect on our campaign, discuss the future of this movement, and identify some ways to get involved in your community.

"Meeting hosts will report back, and your feedback will be instrumental in guiding this movement through some important and unprecedented territory.”


When I saw the “Please donate” button on Barack Obama’s page, I was stunned. Was this an old page, I wondered, fearing the answer.

”Your donation will support the Democratic National Committee and help recover the enormous resources they committed to this campaign.”


Get real, people! Did not the voters of this nation just send a zillion billion more Democrats to Congress and the U.S. Senate? Another Democrat is busted for bribery, and you are asking us to fund more Democrats? In this economy?

What about the "little people," you know the ones who don't count, the ones in the middle and below the middle who actually need some of Obama's leftover cash? The ones who don’t feed off the public’s tit?

Is it not stupifying that Obama's team has the audacity to send out solicitation letters six weeks after we worked feverishly to elect him, and here he comes asking for more!

How about the big bailout money going to an entity other than the fat banks, and the execs who fly in and fly out like witches on broomsticks crying “poor mouth”?

Why do the taxpayers bailout Citi which forked over big bucks ("multi-millions") to fund Bill Clinton’s latest “global” meeting? (The taxpayers pay the government which pays Citi which pays Bill Clinton who pays Bill Clinton who pays Bill Clinton, and who is Secretary of State and he's not going to wave influence?)

The election’s over, the results are sealed, the people are forgotten to feed the coffers of the corporations, the greedy fat cats who need more and more and more.

What hath we wrought?

Monday, April 7, 2008

Hillary Writes Again

Twice in a week!

The label on the envelope of the second letter says: The Time is Now! (The label on the first envelope from Hillary said: We're going all the way.)

Both, essentially the same letter: Please, please, please send money! "Because of your invaluable support" (I've never sent her a dime) "we embarked on an historic journey to renew America's promise and we are determined to win...Patricia, with so much on the line, will you commit...with a gift of $50? (The first letter asked for $100 or $50. In fundraising school, they teach you to solicit the most on the first ask, and then lower the amounts. Hillary's solicitors follow the norm.)

"...With so much at stake, I know that I can count on you." Then, like the first letter, it asks for bloggers, house party hosts, telephone canvassers, letter writers, voter registrars, or "anything" you can do.

The first letter ended: "When I'm in the White House, I promise to be there for you every day." Please. The lack of sincerity is revolting and continually damages Hillary's image which this finish reinforces.