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Terra Alta

(5,158 posts)
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 03:17 PM Sep 2014

Americans for Prosperity just sent my father a voter registration form in the mail.

According to AFP, my dad is "eligible to vote in the next election" but "not yet registered". They are half right. He isn't registered to vote, but he also isn't eligible. He's been dead for nearly 25 years.

Yet we are led to believe it is liberal Democrats who are recruiting dead voters. Wow, I didn't know Americans for Prosperity -- founded by the Koch brothers -- were a liberal organization.

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Americans for Prosperity just sent my father a voter registration form in the mail. (Original Post) Terra Alta Sep 2014 OP
This needs to be a letter to the editor JustAnotherGen Sep 2014 #1
Agreed n/t arcane1 Sep 2014 #3
Considering doing this Terra Alta Sep 2014 #4
do without mentioning the word Liberal or Democrat Duppers Sep 2014 #6
send it to the local paper JustAnotherGen Sep 2014 #8
Just mention that the mailer was from Americans for Prosperity gratuitous Sep 2014 #9
You should see them in action in a nursing home! Get the people registered for absentee voters jwirr Sep 2014 #2
they prey on the most vulnerable Terra Alta Sep 2014 #5
That is what I saw. jwirr Sep 2014 #7

Terra Alta

(5,158 posts)
4. Considering doing this
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 03:36 PM
Sep 2014

though I live in a very rural, conservative area, and my LTTE might not be well-received here.

Duppers

(28,125 posts)
6. do without mentioning the word Liberal or Democrat
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 03:52 PM
Sep 2014

Point out their crookedness without contrasting it to biased opinions about us progressives. Just anything to get people to think a bit.
Little by little, we may get through....a bit.



Thanks for posting.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
9. Just mention that the mailer was from Americans for Prosperity
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 06:06 PM
Sep 2014

Perhaps wonder - just a little - in the letter whether this is some replacement ACORN group? Should keep the nitwits at bay.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
2. You should see them in action in a nursing home! Get the people registered for absentee voters
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 03:21 PM
Sep 2014

and the HELP them vote. It was Rs that I saw doing this in the home my mother was in. They would teach a Bible study or have a musical program and get the peoples trust. Then when election comes along they are right there.

Terra Alta

(5,158 posts)
5. they prey on the most vulnerable
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 03:38 PM
Sep 2014

the elderly, the poor, etc. But when it comes right down to it, they will stab those people in the back. All they care about is the 1%.

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