{"id":138382,"date":"2019-03-22T22:49:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T04:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138382"},"modified":"2019-03-22T22:49:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T04:49:55","slug":"election-cycle-or-just-another-opportunity-for-political-junk-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/22\/election-cycle-or-just-another-opportunity-for-political-junk-mail.html","title":{"rendered":"Election cycle, or just another opportunity for political junk mail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I would be willing to bet a shiny nickel that department is better known internally as the &quot;Department of Ripping Open Return Envelopes Looking for Donation Checks and Throwing the Useless Push Surveys Away&quot;. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iG9Tw5d2kF\">pic.twitter.com\/iG9Tw5d2kF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ***Dave Hill (@Three_Star_Dave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/status\/1109199715877482497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I would be willing to bet a shiny nickel that department is better known internally as the &#8220;Department of Ripping Open Return Envelopes Looking for Donation Checks and Throwing the Useless Push Surveys Away&#8221;. https:\/\/t.co\/iG9Tw5d2kF<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I give donations to very specific individuals or causes. The &#8220;party&#8221; or &#8220;congressional committee&#8221; don&#8217;t count.<\/p>\n<p>Minor props to the DCCC for not hiding the money solicitation at the <em>end<\/em> of the survey, like most of these do. It&#8217;s right there up front, so I can ignore it and add to the recycle bin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78,1142,374],"tags":[723],"class_list":["post-138382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tweets","category-elections-2020","category-money-politics","tag-nt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Capture.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22634,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/11\/arizona-continues-to-race-for-the-bottom.html","url_meta":{"origin":138382,"position":0},"title":"Arizona continues to race for the bottom","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 11-Sep-11 7:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"(I commented on this earlier, but feel compelled to speak more at length.) 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