TODAY I RECEIVED A NICE EMAIL with Reaching out to you personally, John... as the Subject line.
I do not recall giving license to address me so informally, but
The email was from marketeers for Florida U.S. Senate candidate Val Demings (info@electdemocraticwomen.org) who is running (assuming she survives the primaries) against incumbent Republican Sen. Marco Rubio (assuming he survives the primaries).
Ms. Demings is not the first dumocrat to seek my vote.Previously, candidates in Ohio and Michigan ask for my vote and begged for my money.
I am a registered Republican in Florida.
At least Ms. Demings is running in Florida.
I’LL GIVE Ms. Demings marketeers credit (no cash): they get right to the point, i.e., my wallet.
Because I am a nice guy, I wrote Ms. Deming a nice letter explaining that I never support leftists/socialists in the mode of (Hillary) Clinton/Obama/Harris-Emhoff.
I suggested that the people of her party (it was her marketeers, but as the last decent Democrat said1, “The Buck Stops Here” so it is her responsibility to monitor the marketeer’s actions)
Were they “(a) too lazy to check voter registration lists? I am a registered Republican.
Or (b) to ignorant to READ the registration lists?
Or (c) just too stupid to know asking for donations from a long-time Republican is a waste of bits and bytes.
Or (d) -- as I suspect. -- ALL OF THE ABOVE.”
I wonder if the dumocrats would beg for my dollars if they had to waste postage. (Ms. Demings, who currently represents Florida’s 10th Congressional District has franking — free postage — privileges.)
The Response
My comments should be obvious.
On 8/6/2021 7:29 AM, Info Elect Democratic Woemn
– This is an automated response -
Thanks for reaching out!
Elect Democratic Women is a grassroots organization committed to taking back Congress for Democrats by electing more pro-choice women. Elect Democratic Women was formed by Democratic Congresswomen who understand that Congress cannot and will not address the urgent needs facing women and their families by a Congress where less than one in five representatives are women.
If you’d like to support our movement, please consider making a contribution. Just $1 goes a long way:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_edw_fr_2018_homepage WORKS OK
If you'd like to receive less emails and only our most important emails, please use this form
https://go.electdemocraticwomen.org/page/s/less-emails DOES NOT WORK
If you’d no longer like to receive emails about our mission, you can unsubscribe from our list here:
https://go.electdemocraticwomen.org/page/unsubscribe DOES NOT WORK
If you're having an issue with an online donation you've made or are trying to make, please contact ActBlue immediately:
info@actblue.com DOES NOT WORK
I tried each of the links.
The only link that worked was the one to make a donation.
Being a nice guy, I returned the email with the boldface comments shown above.
If anyone cares to try, cut-n-paste the links in your favorite browser and see if anyone
Read my response (probably not)
Acted on the response (fixed the links) — again, probably not.
What is “ActBlue”?
Just for “kicks” I did a web search for “actblue.”
According to its self-identification on Twitter (which, unlike former President Trump is not banned), We're a nonprofit fundraising platform for campaigns and organizations and the small-dollar donors who support them! #IamASmallDollarDonor (https://twitter.com/actblue)
There is a caveat for actblue that Contributions or gifts to ActBlue are not deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes. (https://secure.actblue.com/signin)
I did not see this disclaimer on Ms. Demings’ beg missive; perhaps it does not apply to political contributions.
It is, for me, a non-issue.
Actblue advertises itself (ibid.) As a nonprofit, we’re driven by the belief that our democracy works better when more people participate in civic life and when our campaigns and nonprofits are powered by the people they serve. That’s why we’ve built a powerful online fundraising platform for Democratic candidates up and down the ballot, progressive organizations, and nonprofits. Our tools make it possible for anyone to build a grassroots campaign or movement and give donors an easy and secure way to support their favorite candidates and causes
On the other hand . . .
Axios Media (https://www.axios.com/) reports Dem fundraising platform ActBlue boots Cuomo (https://tinyurl.com/wypjszk)
The Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue has removed a donation page that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's campaign committee used to solicit contributions, the company confirmed to Axios.
Driving the news: ActBlue is the lifeblood of grassroots Democratic fundraising. Its decision to cut off Cuomo following damning allegations of sexual harassment and assault deals a body blow to what's left of his political future.
ActBlue donation pages for Cuomo's campaign and PAC were no longer active on Thursday afternoon.
Apparently, if the beggar falls out of grace with the company’s philosophy, ActBlue, drops the client like the proverbial hot potato.
Granted Cuomo fils has been facing complaints of indiscriminate behavior toward women for several years. Cuomo called for the investigation leading to the cited report.2
The Cuomo flap suggests — at last to this scrivener — that Ms. Demings probably is the mold of Clinton/Obama/Harris-Emhoff, a mold that won’t work for me.
I just wish the dumocrats would remove my email from their beggars’ lists.
I complain, but apparently ignoring people of a different point of view is a growing dumocrat trait.
That bodes ill for America.
Sources
1. Harry S Truman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman)
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman)
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