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25Apr/116

I Got Mail.

Yeah, I'm doing a post. I hope nobody dies from the shock. :)

I got a very interesting piece of junk mail today. It's from a mobile phone company called CREDO Mobile. You can find them online Here

There is a picture of Sarah Palin carrying a Tea Party sign with the line "If you agree with her politics, please don't open this envelope.". Well, I do agree with Sarah on most things, but, you know me, I rarely do what I'm told, so I opened it.

There's a little flyer with the same pic of Sarah, larger and in color with the headline: Does Your Phone Company Fight the Right?

On the back is the following mission statement:

Sarah Palin, John Boehner, Rand Paul, the Tea Party crow, and the Fox News gang all play on the same team--a team that certain phone companies have no qualms about funding. AT&T gave a whopping $426,000 to House and Senate Tea Party Caucus members in 2009-2010.

AT&T and Verizon Wireless pumped thousands of dollars into the campaign coffers of Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, and Mike Lee, all Tea Party-back Senators.

At CREDO, we're fighting the right wing--with an activist network thats 1.9 million strong and growing, and with millions of dollars raised annually for nonprofits like ACLU, Earthjustice, Democracy Now! and Color of Change to name a few.

Join the fight. Join CREDO Mobile.

Now I've never heard of CREDO mobile before today and had no idea of AT&T or Verizon's donation habits. Perhaps you had not either.

This mailing made me ask a couple of questions.. First, how the hell did some left wing nut job phone company get my name and address? I wouldn't have joined any websites that lean that way and I haven't filled out any surveys or anything. Weird. Next, if Sarah Palin and the Tea Party are so freakin' irrelevant, why does anyone care what they do or who donates to them? And lastly, why aren't AT&T and Verizon ..etc... sending out mail like this?

Oooh, I heard a little blog called Wonkette was looking for new advertisers, perhaps I could steer CREDO their way.

Okay...I"m done. No rant...just a little FYI. :)

Have a lovely day.

UPDATE: I called Credo to find out where they got my address. Turns out it was "donated" to them by a charity I donated to called Falling Whistles. I started laughing and asked the operator "so, based on a single charitable donation, your company assumed I agreed with your political agenda. So, what you're really saying is, that since I do not believe that it is cool traffic in human beings....I couldn't possibly be a Republican?" He said "no ma'am that's not what we're saying at all."

Um, yeah little man it is, since that's where you got my name from, you made a GIANT leap in the wrong direction.

So I told him I did not expect to get another piece of mail from his company no matter what charities I choose to donate my money too.