- Joined
- Nov 24, 2009
- Messages
- 2,443
- Reaction score
- 733
- Location
- San Francisco
- Gender
- Undisclosed
- Political Leaning
- Liberal
Excerpted from “RNC "census" mailer offers phone sex number” Posted by Jonathan Martin, “Ben Smith: A running conversation about politics,” Politico, April 01, 2010 11:35 AM
[SIZE="+2"]A[/SIZE] new entrant in the when-it-rains-it-pours category.
The Republican National Committee sent a fundraising mail piece earlier this month with a return number that leads to a phone-sex line offering "live, one-on-one talk with a nasty girl who will do anything you want for just $2.99 per minute."
At the bottom of a piece designed to resemble a census form, a toll-free number is listed next to the national party's address.
A voter in Minnesota received the mailer and called the number intending to complain about the attempt to raise money with a form that looks like a government document.
But the Minnesotan was instead directed to a second toll-free number that greets callers as "sexy guy" before offering them the chance to talk with "real local students, housewives and working girls from all over the country."
The individual then forwarded the mail piece to the voter's congressman, a Democrat, who shared it with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
A spokesman for the RNC declined to say how many copies of the census-style mailer were sent out. …
You might think this is a joke for April Fools, but, really folks, no foolin' the RNC really did this. Coming on the heels of the $2,000 credit card expenditure at a West Hollywood female bondage destination, one can only wonder if indeed those RNC folks have their minds on their work or elsewhere, far, far away.