Few weeks ago, Rush Limbaugh, the leader of the GOP, said if Democrats passed Health Care Reform, he would flee the country for Costa Rica. Like you all know, the bill has passed. So, since we "like" Rush Limbaugh, some progressives launched a campaign to help Limbaugh to buy a plane ticket for Costa Rica.
A new Web site, called Aticketforrush, built overnight and put online this morning, right after last night historic vote,is collecting cash to buy Limbaugh a plane ticket to the Central American country.
The site creators are Mike Rugnetta and Patrick Davison. They came up with this idea when earlier this month, on his show, Limbaugh threatened to leave the country if Demacrats in the House passed the Health Care Reform. "I’ll just tell you this, if this passes and it’s five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented. I am leaving the country. I’ll go to Costa Rica," he said.
The web site is soliciting donations $1 at a time, and has promised to use the money for a first class ticket from Limbaugh's home airport of West Palm Beach, Fla., to San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica.
If Limbaugh decides not to emigrate south, Davison and Rugnetta say they'll give the money to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
Patrick Davison told POLITICO :
We thought to ourselves, well, what charity would make Rush Limbaugh the maddest if he found out that money under his name was going toward it?[...] Gay rights would probably be the one that would fly in his face the most, but we thought that didn't really go with health care.
Here the Website Rules:
Here's how this is going to work:
- We're accepting 1 dollar PayPal donations to buy Rush a one-way ticket to Costa Rica. We are currently accepting donations.
- At the end of the donation period*, we will attempt to personally contact Rush, and offer to buy him a first-class plane ticket from Palm Beach International Airport to San Jose International Airport, Costa Rica.
- If Rush does get cold feet**, and refuses to move to Costa Rica, we will instead donate all of the money to the Planned Parenthood Action Center.
- Additionally, if we make more money than the cost of ticket, or if we don't make enough money for a ticket, everything will still go to Planned Parenthood.
*Donation period will run until April 30th, 2010. That's like, more than 4 weeks notice for the guy.
**Rush has publicized that he never said he would move to Costa Rica. However, we still think it's a good idea.
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