National Leadership Award!!!
It is with a great deal of humility yet pride that I announce that I have been selected to recieve the National Leadership Award from the National Republican Congressional Committee. I am deeply honored by this generous award, proud of all my hard work and the support of loving family and friends over the course of my life. I truly feel that this is the pinnacle of my life and career; nothing can top this.
And co-chairmanship of the prestigious Business Advisory Council? Please, I’m not worthy!
Um, huh? What’s that? In order to recieve this generous award I have to be generous to the Republican Party in turn?
Yes, indeed, this is a political fundraising scam (see here, here, and, ooo, this one is really good...) Oh, for Pete’s sake, do this Google Search to join in the fun. I REALLY love the bio pages where people include it as a real honor. Sheesh. The party has apparently doing this for five or six years.
Obviously they don’t even do the most basic research into who they are calling. If they knew even the smallest thing about me they would know that I would prefer to live in modern-day Bhagdad to supporting the Republican Party. Please, no offense if you’re Republican (or Iraqi). It just ain’t my party. Democrat isn’t either.
Anyway, for Google searching’s sake, here are the caller’s details:
- Eileen Phrase (sp?) called on “behalf of Congressman Tom Reynolds” (Bummer. Many of the Google searches were calls on behalf of Tom deLay. Now, being called on behalf of an actual indicted Congressperson would truly be an honor. Is anyone investigating Tom Reynolds?)
- About the National Leadership Award from the national Republican Congressional Committee
- Phone I was asked to call: 866–338–8289
Here is where I might have made some gut-level comment about scumbag Republicans, scumbag political fundraisers, yada yada yada. But the system in Washington is so very broken and pathetic. What good would it do? Sigh.
Please, don’t be taken in by this scam. It’s tantamount to clicking a link in spam, which encourages the scourge.