John Boehner is my former Congressman, sadly, and he's about to pull another stupid stunt to push the drilling for oil issue. This time, he wants people to send him their gasoline receipts, which he's then going to give to Nancy Pelosi.
After the flip.
The news of this stunt, and his request for my help, came in an email this evening.
Gas Receipts
One of the best ways we can show U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) just how hard working families and small businesses have been hit by high gas prices is by giving the Speaker your gasoline receipts. I would like you to mail me your gas receipts along with a brief explanation of how you’ve been impacted. Although my Republican colleagues and I have protested the Speaker’s decision to send the U.S. House of Representatives on a five-week break instead of staying in D.C. to solve our energy crisis, it’s become clear that she has no plans to do so. When we return in September, I will present your gas receipts to the Speaker.
Mail your receipts here:
Gas Receipts
c/o Rep. John Boehner
7969 Cincinnati-Dayton Road
Suite B
West Chester, OH 45069
Let's help him out. Send him your gas receipt just as he's requested, but instead of telling how horrible your life has become, write a note on the back of your gas receipt asking Speaker Pelosi not to give in to this fool's attempt at a piss-poor publicity stunt.
Let's send him hundreds of thousands of gas receipts, each of them encouraging Speaker Pelosi to mock the stupidity of this stunt.
One of two things will happen. Either his staffers will spend hours upon hours sorting through the flood of gasoline receipts that do nothing to serve his purpose, or he'll just hand them all over to Speaker Pelosi, and if we're lucky, she'll read the notes we've written on the backs of our reciepts (not on a separate piece of paper) out loud on the floor of the house. Hopefully she'll mock him publicly and Boehner's political stunt will have backfired.