I just got a call from the NRCC's Business Advisory Council

TwilightZone

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Fri Mar-25-05 02:42 PM
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I just got a call from the NRCC's Business Advisory Council

My "contact" said that a congressman asked them to invite me to the annual dinner with President Bush.

Although I'm roughly as liberal as Gandhi, should I pretend to be a Freeper and infiltrate? }(

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htuttle

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Fri Mar-25-05 02:43 PM
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1. Depends...

How many banana cream pies could you sneak in under your suitcoat?

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Debi

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Fri Mar-25-05 02:44 PM
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2. My hubby got a similar call

as a small businessman (he's an attorney/sole practitioner).

Thought it was a hoot to receive the call.

(Especially because he served from '87-'93 in the US Congress...as a Democrat).

Sheesh :eyes:

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TwilightZone

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Fri Mar-25-05 02:47 PM
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5. Too funny.

I am a small business owner, so I'm sure that's why they called. I thought it funny since I'm a registered Democrat in a state without all that many.

You certainly would have expected them to purge the calling list of former Democratic Congressman, though! Hehe....

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Debi

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Fri Mar-25-05 02:53 PM
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7. Maybe they thought he'd do anything for some

quality time back on 'The Hill' Oh, boy!!

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sarcasmo

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Fri Mar-25-05 02:45 PM
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3. Infiltrate and pretend like you drank the most Kool Aid, then when they

want you to ask the softball question, switch up to double agent and slam dunk.

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mcscajun

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Fri Mar-25-05 02:46 PM
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4. I remember another post about this...

...the poster mentioned being hit up for $$$.

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TwilightZone

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Fri Mar-25-05 02:52 PM
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6. Since it's their "annual dinner with Bush", it's probably $25,000 a plate.

Maybe more.

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Debi

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Fri Mar-25-05 02:55 PM
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8. A local businessman (Advertising) took them up on their offer

Yes, he's a Republican. He thought it a great honor and even had the engraved invite framed! I think the 'honor' of lunch with 3,000 of his closest friends and the President up on a Dias at the end of the room cost him a $2,000 contribution to the party and of course all his expenses.

We never told him that we'd received the same invite. :)

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TwilightZone

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Fri Mar-25-05 03:07 PM
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9. They run a similar scam...I mean, "Dinner" here once a year or so.

I think the local media said it was $2,000/plate to be in the cattle car...uh, "banquet hall" and the folks with the big bucks could fork out $20,000/plate to have an "exclusive" dinner with Bush.

I think the thing raised $4 million. Made me ill.

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rsdsharp

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Fri Mar-25-05 03:07 PM
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10. By any chance would his name be

Mudd?

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Debi

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Fri Mar-25-05 03:31 PM
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12. Good try but no...however, he's a former Mudd employee!

Now, that shouldn't be hard to decipher ;)

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rsdsharp

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Fri Mar-25-05 03:49 PM
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14. Hey, I"M a former Mudd employee

although I'm not a Republican, and haven't lived in Cedar Falls in over 20 years.

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Debi

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Fri Mar-25-05 04:23 PM
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15. WAS IT YOU?

:wow:

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rsdsharp

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Fri Mar-25-05 04:37 PM
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19. Why yes...yes it was!

Even though I'm not a Republican, don't live in Blackhawk County, and would only pay $2000 for the privilege if pissing on Bush, not eating within telescope view of him.

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Debi

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Fri Mar-25-05 05:56 PM
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21. Well, I'm glad to meet such a privileged gentleman!

What do you do now? And where are you now?

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rsdsharp

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Sat Mar-26-05 12:14 PM
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22. I'm in Des Moines

and I'm now an attorney. A little different than working at KCFI in the late 70's.

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Seaking

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Fri Mar-25-05 03:17 PM
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11. I wish you luck my friend, I could never be in a room full of Repugs.

:puke:

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TwilightZone

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Fri Mar-25-05 03:34 PM
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13. Yeah, I think I'll have to pass.

My father is a right-wing wacko, and he's enough to deal with by himself. I can't imagine a whole room of people just like him.

:scared:

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Debi

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Fri Mar-25-05 04:24 PM
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16. Yeah, but they serve better food and alcohol

I don't know if that's any consolation for selling your soul :evilgrin:

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TwilightZone

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Fri Mar-25-05 04:29 PM
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17. Hmm, I don't know.

Hehe. ;)

The biggest problem is that I *know* that my dad would never let me live it down, even if my intention was infiltration.

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Discord

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Fri Mar-25-05 04:39 PM
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20. that and by going your also funding the GOP nt

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merh

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Fri Mar-25-05 04:35 PM
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18. My boss was getting them all the time, we would just put them on

hold until they hung up. And of course, he received lots of mail from them, including invites to dinners with the weed and his abused wife, and photographs (autographed, yeah right). We would just open the envelopes and cut up the contents and stuff it all back into the envelope provided to send his contribution. The return envelope was postage prepaid so we just dropped it back into the mail.

They even sent some surveys which were honestly completed and returned to them.

Oddly enough, the mailings and calls stopped. :shrug:

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