RNC solicited money for Trump's reelection with forms that look a lot like the official census
Source: Washington Post
Officials in Montana are warning residents for a second time this year about surveys sent by the Republican National Committee that mimic the look of federal census forms with the goal of soliciting money for President Trumps reelection campaign. The mailers are labeled 2019 congressional District Census and inform recipients that theyve been selected to represent voters in Bozeman, Mont. The accompanying literature makes repeated requests for donations, urging recipients to send at least $15 to help pay for the costs of processing [the] Census Document should they be unable to afford an amount in the requested range of $25 to $1,000.
The potentially misleading mailings come as the U.S. Census Bureau is preparing for whats expected to be one of the most challenging federal counts in decades. The bureau is grappling with factors like a switch to digital and the fallout from the Trump administrations efforts to get a citizenship question into the survey.
After the documents landed in mailboxes across four Montana counties, state officials put out a warning about the imitation Census survey. In a Friday news release, the Montana Department of Commerce reminded residents that legitimate census survey documents are postmarked from the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, rather than political groups, and never ask for money.
Montanans need accurate information about the Census to make sure we have a complete count of the folks who live here, Lt. Gov. Mike Cooney, a Democratic candidate for governor, said in the release, which was first reported by the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. A complete count means the state will get its fair share of federal funding. The official Census is easy to complete, secure, and does not cost money. An accurate and complete Census count for Montana is too important to take lightly. The Republican National Committee did not respond to request for comment.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/30/rnc-solicited-money-trumps-reelection-with-forms-that-look-lot-like-official-census/
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in2herbs
(2,945 posts)garbage at the Post Office w/o opening. The third one I wrote "F*** Trump and all Repugs" across in black Sharpie and mailed it back, using their postage. Have no idea how we got on the mailing list cuz we've never voted R.
Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)But anyone that thinks that's a government census form is not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
BumRushDaShow
(129,127 posts)... along with crap like "...When you are finished answering your Census document" (with "census" capitalized)... and if someone is actually filling out a census form for the first time (i.e., say a young adult who has moved into their own household and is completing one for the first time as an individual - since the (main) census forms only come out every 10 years) then who knows?
Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)Then proceeds to ask nothing but political questions. You would have to be not very bright to think that is a census form. Chicken shit move on their part, though. Sounds like an idea from someone that was drunk at the time.
BumRushDaShow
(129,127 posts)That is why they do this. And mainly because those who DO actually read it and throw it out, may assume that the REAL census form is just another piece of crap from the Republican party and will throw it out.
They know what they are doing when they do crap like this.
bluestarone
(16,976 posts)Confusion is their fucking game!!!!
TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)cstanleytech
(26,299 posts)erronis
(15,303 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)Note how it says:
Democrat
who leans republican (on a separate line)
GReedDiamond
(5,313 posts)Not surprised the Party of Don the Con would do shit like this, though.
keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)mbusby
(823 posts)...two of them.
riversedge
(70,244 posts)PSPS
(13,603 posts)diva77
(7,643 posts)Bayard
(22,103 posts)Its the rethuglican way.