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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: dutch508 on December 27, 2017, 10:48:27 PM
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Star Member DFW (26,624 posts) https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210029883
Well, I just told my first fundraising call for a Democrat to f*** off. Hated to, but......
I have a US phone that I turn on when I'm in North America. So who is the first call I get? Some VERY pushy guy asking me to commit $500 (!!) to Tammy Baldwin, to whose successful Senate campaign I had contributed heavily last time. Sure, I just have spare $500 bills to hand out at very whim.
Tammy Baldwin is on the "Franken resign" list, so she (along with the rest of them) gets zero from me until they win their primaries on their own. But MAN was this guy insufferable, and I wouldn't have given him a dime if he was raising money for Obama's third term. Don't know if he was a hired pro or what, but I had to hang up on him. The call, as chance would have it, came at a moment when I was in a room with several friends of Al Franken. VERY poor timing!
:rotf: SUCK IT, DNC!
Star Member Tarheel_Dem (28,022 posts)
1. Some things are better kept to one's self.
It's ok. One of my moles already alerted on this POS.
Star Member Tarheel_Dem (28,022 posts)
7. I think it's awful to use DU's bandwidth to essentially suppress enthusiasm in a critical midterm.
You may find it satisfying, but I find it self defeating (especially when the mission of this board is to elect more Democrats). I, too, wish that Sen. Franken had been granted the investigation he initially called for, but that didn't happen, and it's time to move forward and take back the Congress.
As for those "pushy fundraisers"...they're trying to help us. Telling them to f**k off may feel good in the moment, but when you come back here and spread that loathsome message to allies & enemies alike, you do more harm than good. I only hope that's not your intent.
Now... A second mole has alerted on it.
Star Member boston bean (30,884 posts)
62. Who are you gonna support in the primary?? Does she have a democratic opponent??
Can he vote from Germany?
ProudMNDemocrat (635 posts)
3. Nor will I give a dime........
To any Senate Democrat who was on the "get rid of Al Franken" badwagon . The DSCC is going to be hurting in 2018.
:rotf:
rainin (614 posts)
13. It is our right and our obligation to support
candidates we trust. I will not support any Senator on the "Franken resign" list in the primaries. In the General, obviously, they will get my full support - that includes donations for senators outside my state.
I am still angry. Democrats should be forced to remember that due process is a democratic value. Period!
Star Member Eliot Rosewater (9,879 posts)
33. I have an idea, pretend you are in a cafe in Germany in 1920 and across the way you see a guy throwing a fit with the waitress, you overhear he is mad at the world for failing as an artist.
You then see the future for a moment, realize who that person is, do you then go over and complain to the waitress about how not hot your coffee was?
Or do you dedicate every waking moment of your life to preventing that man from gaining power, vowing to vote for ANYONE who opposes him, NO MATTER WHAT?
:loser:
Star Member elfin (5,525 posts)
40. Wisconsinite here - going to cut her some slack
She is in trouble of not being re-elected - huge money and lies out to get her in what has shifted from blue to Walker red. I cannot bear to have my state be identified with Walker, and Ron (Sunspot) Johnson, and another Koch candidate.
I think she was on the later list of Gillibrand's and very possibly after Al told them he was leaving, so pile on if they thought the statement might be good for them, the party, and/or for the issue.
Not completely sure on that, but suspect Gillibrand was twisting arms severely, especially among women.
Cant stand Gillibrand and her horrid misjudgment but worried for Baldwin and my state, so will give some $ as we get far closer and do signs, calls etc in the last stretch.
Met her once - a very good Representative. Her positions are good, but she is not compelling, so a ripe target.
:-)
Fullduplexxx (402 posts)
45. Just more dems sabotaging the dems chances in 2018
And if she falls short in fund raising im sure a koch funded republican will be happy to take her place but at least you got it off your chest
Quick tempers and short-sightedness are not positive attributes for politics
HOLY SHIT! A CALPEG sighting!
Star Member CaliforniaPeggy (123,573 posts)
92. My Dear Fuddley---****---nutz... I happen to know DFW personally--my husband and I have met and talked with him.
He is NOT short-sighted nor quick tempered, not by a long shot. He is a very intelligent, well spoken, well educated human.
You are way off base.
edited for CALPEG-ness...
Star Member GulfCoast66 (3,058 posts)
63. Right. Because it is morally correct to **** up Democrats who have disappointed us...
Before we move onto Trump.
First we purify ourselves. When that is complete, then and only then do we worry about Republicans.
[sarcasm] which should not be necessary.
I guess 16 taught us nothing.
NOPE!!!
Star Member brooklynite (41,061 posts)
94. The fact that you came here to tell us suggests that you didn't "hate" telling them off...
:lol: :lmao: :rotf: :yahoo:
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I wonder what is missing from Marc's life that compels him to post these attention-whore posts. Is he bragging that he contributes a fair amount or that his contributions buy him some tiny level of access to politicians?
DFW (26,624 posts)
14. Hardly my intent
The pushy fundraisers may be trying to help us, but I doubt it. I have met with real fundraisers, people from Emily's list or members of the Senate and the House who call themselves. They are NOT like this. This guy talked like a pro, on commission or something.
As for the bandwidth, I am as enthusiastic as I can be for Democrats who stick up for our PRINCIPLES and do not jump on convenient bandwagons. The first one of this group to say publicly that they regret their haste, and apologizes to Franken for it, gets a check from me. I see them as being far more detrimental to our party and cause than 100 hours of Fox Noise programming. I will tell ANY pushy fundraiser in no uncertain terms that he or she is going about their job in the wrong way, at least with me. They have my records as to what I have contributed in the past. They should know better, and so should the finance chairmen/women of their campaigns. Let the Republicans pull their Roy Moores and Todd Akins. I want Congresspeople who are better than that. If you find the message loathsome, that is regrettable, but I don't think we make progress with the status quo, and the status quo is pretty loathsome as things stand. I contributed four figures to Tammy Baldwin last time. If she wants me to reconsider and tell me why I should do it again, she can call me herself and explain to me what I missed.
Star Member DFW (26,624 posts)
64. Obviously I used no such language
But poor Tammy Baldwin if she has jerks like this one fundraising for her. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if he did her more harm than good, and my last contribution to her was in four figures, which he said he knew.
DFW (26,624 posts)
69. My disinterest in contributing was definitely related to Franken
I regulary contributed four figure amounts to Baldwin before.
DFW (26,624 posts)
4. I know, but..........
I will never forget what happened, and I am not ashamed of my resentment. If we all keep silent, they will think they were all knights in shining armor for what they did to Al Franken. I called no one's office to tell them off when it happened, but I will not stand for being pressured. They can call me after the primaries, and I will be there for them.
As for pushy fundraisers, I can't STAND them. Gabby Giffords has been a personal friend since before she was shot, and I contribute regularly to her and Mark's gun control movement, but once they had some incredibly pushy guy call me up from a San Francisco number trying to get me to double my yearly contribution. He wouldn't take no for an answer, so he, too get a click for an answer. There are right ways to go about this and wrong ways to go about this. I am confident (though have no statistical proof) that insufferable pushiness is one of the wrong ways.
DFW (26,624 posts)
21. If past performance is any indication
Baldwin will probably call herself. I will be only too happy to put my grievance to her personally, and I will be only too happy to hear what she has to say.
But the really funny part is that, according to OpenSecrets.Org, which I believe is reasonably accurate, he has never contributed a dime to Baldwin and all his donations to Gifford are to her gun control group after she was shot.
https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=marc+emory&order=asc&sort=D (https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=marc+emory&order=asc&sort=D)
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I wonder what is missing from Marc's life that compels him to post these attention-whore posts. Is he bragging that he contributes a fair amount or that his contributions buy him some tiny level of access to politicians?
But the really funny part is that, according to OpenSecrets.Org, which I believe is reasonably accurate, he has never contributed a dime to Baldwin and all his donations to Gifford are to her gun control group after she was shot.
https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=marc+emory&order=asc&sort=D (https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=marc+emory&order=asc&sort=D)
What!!! A DUmmie lied to other DUmmies?!?!
Surely this has never happened before!!!!!
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I wonder what is missing from Marc's life that compels him to post these attention-whore posts. Is he bragging that he contributes a fair amount or that his contributions buy him some tiny level of access to politicians?
But the really funny part is that, according to OpenSecrets.Org, which I believe is reasonably accurate, he has never contributed a dime to Baldwin and all his donations to Gifford are to her gun control group after she was shot.
https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=marc+emory&order=asc&sort=D (https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=marc+emory&order=asc&sort=D)
:lmao:
Someone should drop that on DU and run away. He'd just make up some bullshit about using a fake name, or using a company name.
KC
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Let's lock DUmmies DFW and brooklynite in a hotel room with a camera and tape the resulting pillow fight.
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Let's lock DUmmies DFW and brooklynite in a hotel room with a camera and tape the resulting pillow fight.BITING
Fixed it.
KC
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Star Member brooklynite (41,061 posts)
94. The fact that you came here to tell us suggests that you didn't "hate" telling them off...
Ah, but consider all he snuck in. He's jetsetted over to America. He's contributed "heavily" to Tammy Baldwin and Gabby Giffords' gun-grabbers (hundreds of $$? thousands? whatever the peons on DU imagine!). He's a personal friend of Gabby Giffords. He's hanging out with Al Franken's set.
DFW is a top-drawer DUmmie, and wants the little DUmmies to know he's TOP-F'ing Drawer!
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I wonder what is missing from Marc's life that compels him to post these attention-whore posts. Is he bragging that he contributes a fair amount or that his contributions buy him some tiny level of access to politicians?
But the really funny part is that, according to OpenSecrets.Org, which I believe is reasonably accurate, he has never contributed a dime to Baldwin and all his donations to Gifford are to her gun control group after she was shot.
https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=marc+emory&order=asc&sort=D (https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=marc+emory&order=asc&sort=D)
There must be some mistake, I clearly remember Marc mentioning in passing that he contributed four figures to Tammy Baldwin. :whatever:
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Star Member DFW (26,624 posts)
The call, as chance would have it, came at a moment when I was in a room with several friends of Al Franken. VERY poor timing!
So, you admit you were in a room with perverts, liars, thieves, and all-around degenerates.
You do not disappoint.
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DFW is a Russian mole / troll :lmao: :lmao:
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There must be some mistake, I clearly remember Marc mentioning in passing that he contributed four figures to Tammy Baldwin. :whatever:
Are you sure he didn't sat he slipped her four fingers?
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Are you sure he didn't sat he slipped her four fingers?
Not likely, Tammy sounds like an actual female and not a male that feels like a female for the day type.
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Fixed it.
KC
You betcha. :lmao: :lmao: :hi5:
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There must be some mistake, I clearly remember Marc mentioning in passing that he contributed four figures to Tammy Baldwin. :whatever:
There are four figures in $10.00