Posted on 04/09/2009 6:45:17 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
So what would you call it if someone picked some elderly man's name out of a phone book, then sent a mailing in his name out to people to convince them that a political cause is worth supporting? Would you call it identity theft? To a degree. A newer term might be astroturf. But what ever you call it, at the very least it is a lie.
Well, leave it to Democrats to perpetrate this theft/lie to gin up support for a political cause. This is what happened in Massachusetts as uncovered by newspaperman Matthew Nadler of the Halifax-Plympton Reporter and Enterprise. (Talk about a name, that one is a mouthful)
Nadler is apparently in charge of the letters to the editor section of his daily and began his column talking of the joy he gets when he finds a letter addressed from a private citizen to his paper that is filled with a reader's comments.
Sometime the end of last month, Nadler got what appeared to be one of those letters. It had a return address in the name of an elderly Massachusetts citizen, so Nadler at first thought that it was just that.
But as he opened and read the contents of the envelope, he was confronted with a generic form letter urging people to support the Medicare Advantage program. The letter urged the reader to contact their congressman and urge them to support the program. But, to Nadler's suspicion, the "letter" didn't contain any specific congressman's name. This made Nadler feel something was "fishy."
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
It is all about gaining seats. By any means necessary.
Socialists lie. Always.
The modern Democrat Party is purely Stalinist. Orwell has to be spinning in his grave.
Publiusforum link doesn’t work. Link to original article mentions this firm has represented Democrats but makes no claim Democrats stole the names.
Ping
Would you call it identity theft? Yes however the democrats bail-out program is nothing more than loan sharking.
‘Rats have been stealing elderly (and dead) persons’ identities for generations. It helps them on Election Day.
They aren’t known as the party of moral bankruptcy without reason.
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