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"Guess where your check went?"

19 October 2011
Written by Carly Griffin

We are sure many of you receive solicitations in the mail from candidates every election year asking for your support, aka your money. Now, you may decide to send them check with a brief note of "go get'em" or you may just consider these junk mail and instantly throw them away, but one of our members has a special approach.
He writes a letter to his local representatives, specifically to those who don't think it is important to answer issue questions asked inside the Political Courage Test, which reads:
"Each time I receive a letter such as yours, seeking funds to be contributed, I do two things. First, I determine whether my own thoughts agree in general with those expressed in the solicitation letter. If we seem to be in agreement, and I am inclined to make a contribution, I then check my copy of the Voter's Self-Defense Manual periodically issued by the Project Vote Smart. If the incumbent or challenger HAS responded to the PVS request to fill in the information requested repeatedly for the [Political Courage Test] form (the responser's position on a number of vital questions of national interest to voters), then I go ahead and write the contribution check. If the incumbent or challenger HAS NOT seen fit to let their position/s be known to the voters, I then send the check to Project Vote Smart to further their program of keeping voters informed. You are listed under 'No Political Courage.'
Guess where your check went?"
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Comments

1 says...

I just wanted to say that I resent them coming to my mailbox. They all come from Republicans, whom have sent the most hideous slanderous messages, and plenty of character assassination and hatred, particularly toward President Obama. I reported it to the Post- master and the FBI. As far as I[HTML_REMOVED]m concerned, any that come to my mailbox get turned in. And I mean I report every single one of them. We used to have some good Republicans (Gerry and Betty Ford, and God knows, Abe Lincoln, to name a few!). These mailings usually have a Washington, DC. address, try to look [HTML_REMOVED]official[HTML_REMOVED] and they are manic and hysterical, like shouting [HTML_REMOVED]Fire![HTML_REMOVED] in a movie theater. They make the National Enquirer look like something grand and is if it were fact, by comparison. And I[HTML_REMOVED]m not kidding. I call this mail political fraud. I warned many in the community I live, even if Republican, not to do anything rash, they are fraudulent, no matter how good they may sound;don[HTML_REMOVED]t trust them. I told the people to meet personally with candidates more local to you to make monetary contributions, use your tax forms to contribute to the campaign fund, or just volunteer for a campaign. Even if the mail said Mitt Romney or Rand Paul or whomever--don[HTML_REMOVED]t trust the mailings. The political ads on TV are atrocious enough already. Pres. Obama is the only one whom showed class and grace under fire for so long. I never hear him pouring out name-calling, verbal bashing or abuse, character assassination, or anything horrific on another. If anything, he [HTML_REMOVED]returned fire[HTML_REMOVED] on Donald Trump, but with humor. And it shut him up.

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