Posted on 03/13/2009 2:08:52 PM PDT by vivalaoink
A member at ar15.com sent his congressman a teabag in the mail to protest their spending, and now his congressman's office is threatening him.
The member says, "I told her no malice intended and asked if it was illegal to mail a teabag. I told her it was a in protest in response to the votes of the Congressman. I also told her I thought maybe they would enjoy a good cup of tea this afternoon. She was not amused but acted dumb as to why I sent it. She also said a RECORD of this would be made."
Here is a link to the recording their office left on his voicemail:
http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq301/GizmoF69/?action=view¤t=0313091445.flv
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I wonder if I’ll be threatened if I send one to Marky Mark Schauer.
we will just have to resort to guilt by association and send them all a tea bag. :)
I say that we send them used tea bags!!!
You know it is tea and I know it is tea but since 9-11, it is dumb to send federal offices anything except written correspondence. They will have to send out the tea bag to be tested since all the anthrax scares because it is coming into the office with flakes not in solid form.
There are a lot of sick people out there that would love to sneak something through their mail system.
If I was in the office, I would have reacted the same way. Think about what could be hidden in a tea bag and all of you might want to reconsider sending an actual tea bag. People need to use some common sense.
It’s congressman John Adler
Opie don’t like no tea.
When I first heard of this idea this is exactly what I thought the reponse would be, that and they’d ignore it.
I guess it’s a good thing he didn’t send bacon ...
Get this info to Oreilly and Glen Beck,,,let them put the hookie to him for a week or so and see how big a boy he is then.
I think he was dumb to put his name and address on it. Isn’t there a movement to mail one to the WH on 4/1?
Send him a solid dog turd and ask him to sign it. He signed off on the last one that came his way.
I would tend to agree that more tea bags are in order...
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I would venture to guess he will receive many more, and they won’t have names on them.
I was wondering awhile ago what would happen if everyone did this.
Does the honorable congress-critter not realize that March 16, 2009 is exactly 236 years and three months from the Boston Tea Party, one of the seminal events in our country’s founding?
Surely he’d understand that citizens from across the nation would want to commemorate that festive anniversary with him, and what better way than by stimulating the postal service sector of the economy?
Maybe we ought to start send pictures of tea bags noting that it is sent in protest of congressional activities!
In NJ in 1990, then-Governor James Florio extended the sales tax to many, many items that had been, up to that time, exempt...among them, toilet paper. Naturally, many people sent toilet paper to Florio. Being an environmentally conscious state, many people didn't want to waste the TP, so they used it first. :>)
Yes, that is true.
I hope that Adler gets buried in tea bags.
I recall a Redd Foxx story about walking into the office of some guy who owed him money and tossing him a .45 bullet, and saying “the next one’s gonna be comin’ a whole lot faster if you don’t get up off mah money.”
“She” has the wrong kinda junk.
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