Posted on 10/07/2004 9:30:05 AM PDT by The Loan Arranger
Voters this fall in Democratic strongholds are witnessing an increasingly common sight. Staked out on busy sidewalks in at least 38 American cities, political activists carrying credit-card authorization forms are drumming up donations for the campaign to defeat George W. Bush. Outfitted in T-shirts emblazoned with star-spangled Democratic National Committee logos, these earnest young men and women come across as grass-roots volunteers of the most enthusiastic sort. Little old ladies interrupt their strolls to thank them for their hard work.
But appearances can be deceiving. The organization behind these fund-raisers is Grassroots Campaigns Inc., a for-profit company that counts the Democratic National Committee as one of its flagship clients. It's a safe bet that few pedestrians talked into donating $149"the price of a bus ticket from Washington, D.C., to Crawford, Texas"realize that once these canvassers beat their daily quota, they keep up to 30 percent of the take.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.msn.com ...
We should be more concerned with the paid Get Out The Vote efforts. When Soros et al dumps 10 million the week before the election to get out the vote you can guarantee that every warm body will be dragged to the polls at least twice.
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