Thursday, September 23, 2010
Recently I wrote a blog post about how to defeat the proposed public financing of congressional elections, FENA, HR 6116, by having a bunch of people run and collect the funds, in order to show it as being a scam. I was thinking out loud at the time and the post was kind of rambling. Today the bill passed out of committee. I think it's time for a slightly simpler version of the scheme.
Do you live in New York or California? Would you be willing to invest $50,000, for a return of $150,000 to your campaign account, a slush fund that you can use to hire your friends and relatives? Send no money now, all I need is your pledge.
I'm looking for 500 people in each of California and New York to run for, or pretend to run for, Congress, when and if the bill passes, simply to take advantage of all this free money. (Additional states might be added later once the pilot project is off and running.) My goal is to run the program into the ground and make a mockery of it.
But your goal could be to just cash the checks.
How it works: Once we have 500 people committed in your state, you write a $100 check to each of the 500, and they each write a $100 check to you. You are out $50,000, but your campaign account now has $50,000, and the government will match it 4-1 with $200,000. ($200K x 500 = 100 million - the government wastes that much every day.) Oh, and you're going to be writing me a check for 15%, $30,000. Because it was my idea, and I can help you make this work.
(We are also going to need 1000 people to write 500 checks for $1 [edit: $5?] each - go recruit a couple of cronies.)
I don't care if you run as a socialist, a Republican, a Green, a Libertarian, or sit back and do nothing. I suggest you pair up and hire somebody as your campaign manager for $50,000, and have them hire you for $50,000, so you've now gotten back your initial investment. Specific details of what is allowed or not will come after the bill becomes law, if ever. Standard disclaimers apply.
Make sure they spell your name right for the primary, which you will lose.
It costs you nothing to sign up now.
What's that, you say you don't have $50,000 to ante up? Don't worry. You look trustworthy. I have some friends you can talk to about a short term high interest loan. Get on the bandwagon now while there's still time - supplies are limited.
Now some people may be offended at my crass and overtly greedy approach. But what I'm doing is more or less the same thing the D's and R's will be doing if this welfare-for-politicians bill passes.
Do you live in New York or California? Would you be willing to invest $50,000, for a return of $150,000 to your campaign account, a slush fund that you can use to hire your friends and relatives? Send no money now, all I need is your pledge.
I'm looking for 500 people in each of California and New York to run for, or pretend to run for, Congress, when and if the bill passes, simply to take advantage of all this free money. (Additional states might be added later once the pilot project is off and running.) My goal is to run the program into the ground and make a mockery of it.
But your goal could be to just cash the checks.
How it works: Once we have 500 people committed in your state, you write a $100 check to each of the 500, and they each write a $100 check to you. You are out $50,000, but your campaign account now has $50,000, and the government will match it 4-1 with $200,000. ($200K x 500 = 100 million - the government wastes that much every day.) Oh, and you're going to be writing me a check for 15%, $30,000. Because it was my idea, and I can help you make this work.
(We are also going to need 1000 people to write 500 checks for $1 [edit: $5?] each - go recruit a couple of cronies.)
I don't care if you run as a socialist, a Republican, a Green, a Libertarian, or sit back and do nothing. I suggest you pair up and hire somebody as your campaign manager for $50,000, and have them hire you for $50,000, so you've now gotten back your initial investment. Specific details of what is allowed or not will come after the bill becomes law, if ever. Standard disclaimers apply.
Make sure they spell your name right for the primary, which you will lose.
It costs you nothing to sign up now.
What's that, you say you don't have $50,000 to ante up? Don't worry. You look trustworthy. I have some friends you can talk to about a short term high interest loan. Get on the bandwagon now while there's still time - supplies are limited.
Now some people may be offended at my crass and overtly greedy approach. But what I'm doing is more or less the same thing the D's and R's will be doing if this welfare-for-politicians bill passes.
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