| Guess who just sent me more mail! |
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That’s right, it’s our old pal, Mitt Romney!! |
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Looks like I’m a notable Republican again. By whose definition? Also, the text looks awfully familiar. |
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Keep in mind, please, that I have never given a dime to any Republican candidate. Even the one I canvassed for. So why is good old Mitt asking me for $75,800? (Or, if times are tough, I could donate as little as a grand. Isn’t he generous?) |
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Huh, how many Republican organizations does it take to screw money out of an Obama supporter? |
| Apparently, quite a few. |
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Needless to say, I sent my contribution straight off… |
| …to Barack Obama. |
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kathy a.
August 5, 2012 at 12:06 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
My my my. They use a form letter to solicit up to the $75,000 max from an individual donor? I guess this counts as outreach. For a mere $5000, after all, you can get the email address of a staffer.
Personally, i would have recommended that they leave out any suggestion of a figure in the $70,000 range, since that $77,000 deduction for dressage horse expenses is still kinda in the news. That always makes my mind drift to the problem of why I’m paying a much higher percentage of income (that I work for) than Mr. Deep Pockets — at least according to the one year of tax returns he’s released.
Somehow I get the feeling that the ones he won’t release might not look as good as that one, in the supporting one’s nation via paying a fair share department, but it is hard to tell since he says all that is none of my damned business. And maybe it wouldn’t be, if he wasn’t running for president, and saying he’s gonna fix the economy and he doesn’t want to screw the middle class, and also releasing a tax plan that sure as heck looks like bad news for middle-class plebes like me.
And also — what’s up with him not having a final tax return for 2011? Doesn’t he have staff for that? Are the numbers too big to compute? Did he lose the records in a tragic garage flood or something? Normal people don’t need 8 months to figure out how much they made last year. Then again, normal people don’t deduct the dressage expenses, so I suppose it is a little complicated.
kathy a.
August 5, 2012 at 12:07 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
i must have messed up the html code. sorry!
Liz
August 5, 2012 at 11:55 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Fixed it.
ZachPruckowski
August 6, 2012 at 2:04 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Kathy A – it’s a function of the complexity of the corporate web he’s at the center of. So like Company A’s year-end financials depend on getting the numbers from Companies B and C, while B needs D’s numbers before it can do its calculations and D needs C’s numbers while C needs E’s numbers, etc. etc. So E is the only company with it’s taxes worked out by April 15th, and everyone else files “I’m waiting on Company (whichever) for final numbers”. Of course, if the corporate structures weren’t so insane and convoluted, he’d be done on time.
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It comes with a postage-paid reply envelope, right?
Dear Willard Romney –
Thank you for your recent letter. Mitt – may I call you Mitt? – I have decided to make an in-kind donation to your campaign. Attached please find a cinderblock. I trust your campaign can put it to good use.
Peace,
Zach Pruckowski
Liz
August 6, 2012 at 4:06 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Very nice. Very nice indeed.
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September 21, 2012 at 12:58 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
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