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That "Contribute Now" red item is a hot button, to the Tinklenberg08.com website, where, still as I posted over the weekend, it starts at a credit card fifty bucks or take a hike.
Fifty talks, less cash walks, per the online site, and you can sign up for the hit to be on you, each and every month, automatically, with no indication how you are supposed to undo any such idiotic decision making if you come to your senses.
On the image, when you enlarge it, you lose the hotlink, but it is
this Tink webpage.
See for yourself. Unless it gets changed, $50 is rock-bottom, for online giving.
And Tink's website allows poppers for fifty bucks or more that golden opportunity, auto-tithing for Tink. But, unfortunately, for less, you cannot use the page.
You want to give him twenty bucks a month? Sorry. Can't do it online.
What a shame.
However, Mr. Guest is courteous enough to give, in his email, a snail-mail address where you can send less.
Tinklenberg for Congress
9380 Central Avenue, Ste 310
Blaine, MN 55434
[send to a friend]
My suggestion, if online it is too much Tink-trouble to take your twenty-five, thirty, forty bucks, then why send it snail mail? What's been earned, really?
Why does the guy say:
Your contribution today means more than ever. We are just over $6,000 away from our online goal of $25,000. Please help us shed light on Rep. Bachmann’s backwards agenda by making your contribution now. Please help by contributing $500, $250, $100, or whatever you can afford online today. We have until midnight tonight to make our goals and show our campaign’s financial strength.
[bolding empahsis in original].
He's either blowing it all out his shorts about that online today, "whatever you can afford online today" stuff, knowing it's false, or it is endemic of a carelessness and lack of attention to voter sentiments and cicumstances that one wishing to go to Congress should not display.
What some hard-pressed people really "can afford" might not start at fifty bucks, now, and certainly possibly not for every month.
If you are one of those folks, be insulted.
It IS an insult. Sloppy too.
Moreover, "whatever you can afford" is entirely irrelevant. And very presumptive to boot.
How about, "whatever you choose to" instead? Mr. Guest, what of that?
Much less presumptive, less of an insult to those who can't afford a fifty buck threshold. I guess if you provide Internet access for your children, your family, you presumptively can [and want to] pop fifty bucks for the fabulous Tink. Something like that.
Now, my thinking - If Elwyn Tinklenberg is too high on a pedastel to provide for a way to send his campaign twenty-five, or forty bucks online, then - well don't quit just yet, consider this --
Send his campaign a snail-mail check, not for twenty-five bucks because that's been clearly disdained - not even for twenty-five cents.
Send Tink what's earned. Send Tink a snail-mail check for 23 cents.
Let the campaign process that check. Or if they're too good for their twenty-three cent's worth, let them mail the check back to you [be sure to include a return address].
They have to account for all donations, it's the law, so they should, properly do something besides round-filing your 23 cent check.
Give what's deserved, regardless of what you can afford.
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Yes, I am really ragging about this. It really burns me. Triggers my hot button.
Don't YOU see it as either hubris or disorganization or both, a careless and a disdainful thing toward the little man, the little woman, the person to whom $25-$40 is something substantial, and not merely a drop in the bucket?
It is real to me. I would stoop to pick up a dropped ten dollar bill. I like Hamilton's portrait enough. Wouldn't you?
I would not say, "Hey, not a fifty or bigger, let someone else stoop."
It seems to be what we're having implied to us by Tinklenberg and folks. No time, no care, to stoop for leas than a bill with Grant's face on it. Franklin, etc., yeah, we'd stoop for that, but otherwise ---
So, send that 23 cent check. It's been earned.
_____UPDATE_____
What makes it even more galling, the Franken campaign email, same theme, let's get over a target hump the last day of the quarter -- but look at the man's less presumptous price points:
If you've been out on the campaign trail with us, you know how many signs, buttons, stickers, and t-shirts we go through as we spread our message at rallies and parades.
And if you've been anywhere near a TV lately, you know that Norm Coleman has even more ads on the air than the drug and oil companies he represents.
We'll be outspent in this campaign, but we'll win if we can stay close.
So, please, before midnight, can you make your most generous contribution – whether it's $100, $50, or $25 – to help us keep pace with Norm Coleman's special-interest-funded war chest?
CLICK HERE TO MAKE YOUR [Franken for Senate] CONTRIBUTION BEFORE MIDNIGHT!
If you are going to give, give to Al! Not Tink.
Or Sarvi or Madia. Each is a good candidate.
Al doesn't have his snoot as full of himself as Tinklenberg has. I bet Al, even the millionaire he is, would stoop to pick up a Jackson. Tink, he's proud. GOP like, that way. Al's a Democrat. He knows your money is precious to you, and asks you to give what you generously will, and it is not about mere wording - it is attitude.