When we came home yesterday, there was one letter that stood out from the usual pile of mail inside the front door. There was still the regular junk mail, catalogs, mail for the other guy who used to live in this apartment, AT&T bill, you know how it goes. Not so many credit card offers these days. Not so many zero-percent-mortgage offers either- but i digress.
The one letter that was doin' it's own thing was bearing a return address that said THE PRESIDENT.
We live in
El Cerrito, California. I think
someone else from Daily Kos lives in our neighborhood, but I'm not sure I remember who it is. The biggest scandal to hit town in the last year is that someone plans to build a 6-story condo building in the parking lot behind the local grocery store, and it will be the tallest building in town. People are up in arms at city council meetings.
But wait, you say. El Cerrito is only 10 miles north of Berkeley, only 6 or 7 miles across the bay from downtown San Francisco. You dirty California hippes are as blue as can be. Why is the RNC sending fundraising letters to people in El Cerrito? Why do they think anyone in California will donate money to their misbegotten cause?
I don't know why. Someone must have sold my wife's name to them. The why doesn't matter. What's important now is that we have an opportunity to make a response, at the expense of the RNC.
They enclosed a self-addressed, BUSINESS REPLY MAIL envelope. We've already decided that we're going to return it- We're just debating what we should put inside, and I'm hoping all you Kossacks can help us out.
So far, ideas have ranged from some kind of dirty comic involving Bush/Cheney/Rove, to buying 100 pounds of dog shit and sticking the envelope to the outside, to (gasp) scanning the envelope, posting the image here, and letting everyone on Kos print their own RNC-funded mailing label, so that each of us can have the opportunity to tell the RNC exactly what we think about the way the Republican culture of corruption is destroying the America we love.
This last option has the added attraction that if we send enough really heavy packages(I'm thinking lead bricks here people), via the US mail, attention to the RNC, at the RNC's own expense, we might just bankrupt them with postage fees before they can waste another dollar on sleazy deceptive spanish-language ad buys.