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How to lose an $80 donation: a cautionary tale.
Just got this note from a friend. It's a cautionary tale.
Thought I'd send along this example of how to lose an $80 campaign donation... I've been getting Bill Richardson's emails for quite a while now without donating anything yet. And while I am actually not as attracted to him as I once was, this email and the ads I watched when I clicked through to the donation form motivated me just enough to say "OK, I'll send along some money and help keep the pot boiling in Iowa."So off to complete the form and I fill the whole thing out... without including my phone number since I for sure don't want phone calls coming to me as a result of the donation. Hit the send button and back it comes with the response that the phone number is required...
Now that's a pretty dumb move... and if it was done because its required by the Feds for record keeping, people should be told that on the form itself. Or at least when the form bounces back. But to just insist on the phone number or the donation won't clear... really, really stupid idea.
I agree. If it's not required, don't require it. You don't want anything standing between you and your donor's money.
Kari Chisholm | November 9, 2007 | Comments (1) |
Congressman LaTourette gets blogger fired
The Newhouse family of newspapers and websites - OregonLive.com, MassLive.com, Cleveland.com, NOLA.com - have been scrambling to add blogs to their media mix. Their regular journalists now often write blogs, and the papers have all been adding freelance bloggers as well.
In Cleveland, the Plain Dealer hired two conservative activists and two progressive activists to blog together on a blog called Wide Open.
But today, we hear the news that Congressman Steve LaTourette (R) managed to convince the Plain Dealer to fire one of its progressive bloggers, Jeff Coryell Why? Apparently, because he'd made a $100 donation to the Democratic challenger.
Unbelievable. Here's the relevant posts:
Jeff Coryell's version - posted at Ohio Daily Blog.
The PD's version, posted by the paper's Assistant Managing Editor
The post by progressive blogger Jill Miller Zimon, in which she resigns in protest
And the two posts by the conservative bloggers, Tom Blumer and Dave from Nixguy, who aren't happy about it either - as it seems to have ended this experiment in newspaper-sanctioned partisan blogging: "This post isn't as much a resignation as it is an observation that the whole thing has sort of blown up, and it looks like there's nothing left to resign from."
Ugh.
Kari Chisholm | November 2, 2007 | Comments (0) |
