Don't hold your breath for an apology. You solicited on FR loud and clear.
You can't lawyer your way out of this. It's well known what you were doing.
So, you keeping all that lovely cash for your next failed 'almost ran'?
More BS. The "threat" is still a very elaborate and detailed request for money for yourself from the Freepers:
Successful campaigns must have two things. First is a minimum of dedicated and able volunteers. The other is money.
A "Double Sawbuck" is $20. When I started selling newspapers at the age of 15, that represented ten days of hard work, every day. Nowadays, that just ain't much money. Twice times a movie ticket, plus a bucket of popcorn and two overpriced drinks. A fast-food dinner for the family, with maybe enough left over for a couple ice cream cones.
If you are like me, and like most citizens of the Internet, you sit down at the keyboard with your credit card in your pocket. You do that even if you're sitting there in your bathrobe with a pair of fuzzy slippers on your feet. Why?
Because the Internet is not just a window on the world, not just a cornucopia of intellectual delights; it is also a shopping mall that offers everything you can imagine, and then some. Like Clint Eastwood as The High Plains Drifter riding into a new town, you have your credit card easy on your hip, ready to fire when necessary. Good.
Click on the website. Click on the "response link" on the right side middle of the first page. Use our secure server to contribute what you choose. And be certain to leave your name and address. I have special ways of saying thank you that require snail mail. No, your name and address will NEVER be given to anyone else for any reason. And if I do not win the election, I will burn the list and eat the ashes. Is that sufficient protection?
I am well aware of the parable in the Bible about the "Widow's Mite." It was the smallest coin in the realm, yet it was all that she could give. And so it was a welcome gift. I only have a small list of people who can and will "max out" under the Federal Election Commission rules and give $2,000. That list is small because I have restricted it just to individuals and just to those who don't ask for favors in return.
All the rest of the necessary money must come from thousands of smaller contributions. One hundred people who give a double sawbuck equal one more maximum donor. It all adds up. No one wins with just large contributions. No one wins with just small contributions. It takes both.
If you know me well, so you didn't have to do a great deal of reading to come up to speed, this has taken about five minutes. In return I offer you sixty years of experience at the local, state and national level, compressed into two years of excellent work in Congress.
There, now you've done something about Congress, rather than just talking about it. Doesn't it make you feel good?
Why lie about it?