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From: Bill Horne <billhorne@mediaone.net>
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To: Glenn Burkhardt <glenn@vtecus.com>
Subject: Re: Political activism for Linux users/advocates
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Glenn Burkhardt wrote:

> > By the way, a reelection contribution - however minor - immediately shunts
> > YOUR letter into the "paying customer" pile, so you can rub elbows with
> > millionaires, if only by having your letter in the same in-basket. Those are,
> > of course, the ones that get read first.
>
> Now how does this work?  Should I include the check with the letter containing
> my concerns?  Doesn't that open the path for an attempted bribery charge?

"Attempted bribery"? I'd tell a joke, but the terrorist attacks today have put a
pall on everything.

No, it's not bribery, and it works very well. You call your congressman's office,
ask for the contact at their reelection headquarters, and send both your letter and
your check to the reelection committee.

The point of the exercise is that ANY contribution has to go through the "fast
track" procedure. As a practical matter, they can't separate the big from the
small, so a check for $5 would jump your letter ahead of everybody that doesn't
send anything.

It's not bribery. It's Democracy.

Bill



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