Back in 2004, I donated $10 to the campaign of George W. Bush, figuring I’d get their campaign to spend much more than $10 in campaign mailings to me. I was right; not only did the Bush campaign spend more than $10 in sending me campaign materials, but gosh and crackers, they sold my name to the Republican party! So, after the 2004 elections, my tricksy scheme continued to pay off, as I received a new GOP solicitation in the mail every week, but sometimes more often than that. Sometimes, they sent on materials, too: little books, buttons, cardboard signed pictures of the president, membership cards and other silly little trinkets that were supposed to impress me. This, too, added up. I figure that my $10 donation caused more than $100 in expense to the Republicans over the past two years. That’s like taking money away!
Alas, my $10 Republican Donation Experiment is over, ’cause I’ve moved. So let the $5 Republican Donation Experiment commence! I’m sending them my donation today, and I am hoping to have an even greater effect. I’m living in Ohio now, one of those battleground states, and I look forward to all those cute attempts by the GOP to mobilize me. Oh, what sick and twisted fun.
Abbie Hoffman would be proud.
Not that this isn’t a neat stunt, but why $5.00? Why not a crisp, clean check made out for exactly $0.01 (zero and 1/100) dollars? Do they have a minimum? Just asking…
I don’t know, but I guess I’m just betting that a 0.01 cent donation would really trigger their bullshit detectors.