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In reply to the discussion: Ever wonder why you receive endless email and snail mail asking for money for Democrats? [View all]usaf-vet
(7,741 posts).....via ACT BLUE and similar consolidators. We still donate, but ONLY by writing checks that contain no identifiable information linking directly back to us.
We move small amounts of money to an account to cover the checks we want to write. We mail them via USPS with no return address.
It has caused our daily email volume to drop from an average of 15 to 20 emails to fewer than two, which mostly get unsubscribe notices. If these are ignored, I set up a filter to send them directly to the trash.
It cost us a few extra cents for the checks and stamps, but less than one dollar is our cost to get the money to where we want it to go.
It seems all politics is mostly a scam. Is it any wonder that we are in the predicament we currently face?
Oh, and I'm for TERM LIMITS, always have been. Too many elected officials are just warming seats, collecting huge paychecks, while searching for bigger-paying lobbyist jobs.
I know, I know, we will lose the good ones too, but I'm tired of being ripped off and losing the benefits we rely on so the slackers can get rich.