29 August 2012

Begging letters from Liberals

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The latest Liberal Party junk mail campaign has taken a curious step.

Earlier this week, I found a letter from the libs in the post.

In addition to the usual vacuous and worn out lines, I was surprised to see Zed make a desperate outright request for donations.

This went as far as including a small form, with an option to volunteer for letterbox drops. There was a certain irony to their complaints about increasing costs and asking for donations.

Has anyone else seen this sort of thing in Canberra before? This is the first time I’ve seen this sort of request, which is reminiscent of crazy televangelists & other cheap sales tactics.

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Primal said :

Hugh G Rection will be the number one Liberal donor in no time!

(and, being the form design pedant I am, why does it let you fill in the amount for a credit card donation in two places? Grrrrrr.)

Well, to be fair, one section is a fixed amount and the other is ‘your choice’ 🙂

I am much angrier about the unnecessary hyphenation in the second last paragraph. Honestly, check the line breaks people!

Buckaroo_Banzai said :

I got one of these. They spelled my apartment complex name wrong. And also ignored my “no junk mail” sign. So it got recycled.

I believe that political mail is exempt from ‘junk’ classification.

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd9:55 pm 29 Aug 12

justin heywood said :

Still, begging is probably a more ethical option than funding your campaign from pokie revenue.

Excellent point.

justin heywood said :

Still, begging is probably a more ethical option than funding your campaign from pokie revenue.

No doubt.

Rather bold move, though. Times must be tough at the Liberal Party headquarters.

colourful sydney racing identity said :

ThisIsAName said :

colourful sydney racing identity said :

Primal said :

Hugh G Rection will be the number one Liberal donor in no time!

would be if they provide a prepiad envelope 🙂

I forgot to mention the libs handily provided a prepaid envelope with the letter 😀

http://www.darkcoding.net/credit-card-numbers/

have fun peeps…

Just make sure to provide someone elses telephone number so when they call to get the right details because obvioulsy you must have made a mistake they will bother some random person just to add that extra bit of confustion to it. 🙂

c_c said :

“The Canberra Liberals have spent four years building a strong plan…”

…which is so good mere voters are unable to comprehend it, so we haven’t released. Trust us though, it’s super.

Show us your policies Zed.

Had to laugh at The Canberra Times on Sunday, which ran a piece that stated ‘each week the CT will ask the candidates where they stand on a particular issue’. Last Sunday’s topic was Transport. Labor and the Greens both named some policy, as did ‘Bullet Train for Canberra’.

Needless to say, Alistair Doh said they’d announce their transport policy in a few weeks.

It’s going to be a pretty one-sided column if the libs just keep saying “wait for it… waittttt for itttttt…”

While the other mob ride the pokie machine cash cow.

Deref said :

Jim Jones said :

colourful sydney racing identity said :

Which taxes are they lowering?

All of them, obviously.

Zed’ll fix everything. And we’ll get free beer.

Zedholz. Though that might have a head to it.

Buckaroo_Banzai6:11 pm 29 Aug 12

I got one of these. They spelled my apartment complex name wrong. And also ignored my “no junk mail” sign. So it got recycled.

I wonder if someone will volunteer for the letterbox drops, then dump the letters undelivered…

justin heywood5:57 pm 29 Aug 12

Still, begging is probably a more ethical option than funding your campaign from pokie revenue.

colourful sydney racing identity5:11 pm 29 Aug 12

ThisIsAName said :

colourful sydney racing identity said :

Primal said :

Hugh G Rection will be the number one Liberal donor in no time!

would be if they provide a prepiad envelope 🙂

I forgot to mention the libs handily provided a prepaid envelope with the letter 😀

http://www.darkcoding.net/credit-card-numbers/

have fun peeps…

colourful sydney racing identity5:10 pm 29 Aug 12

ThisIsAName said :

colourful sydney racing identity said :

Primal said :

Hugh G Rection will be the number one Liberal donor in no time!

would be if they provide a prepiad envelope 🙂

I forgot to mention the libs handily provided a prepaid envelope with the letter 😀

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssss!!!!

colourful sydney racing identity said :

Primal said :

Hugh G Rection will be the number one Liberal donor in no time!

would be if they provide a prepiad envelope 🙂

I forgot to mention the libs handily provided a prepaid envelope with the letter 😀

“ruined the health system”

Yeah, hospitals in Canberra, they’re like Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Cancer Ward’ …

colourful sydney racing identity4:44 pm 29 Aug 12

Primal said :

Hugh G Rection will be the number one Liberal donor in no time!

(and, being the form design pedant I am, why does it let you fill in the amount for a credit card donation in two places? Grrrrrr.)

would be if they provide a prepiad envelope 🙂

Jim Jones said :

colourful sydney racing identity said :

Which taxes are they lowering?

All of them, obviously.

Zed’ll fix everything. And we’ll get free beer.

Hugh G Rection will be the number one Liberal donor in no time!

(and, being the form design pedant I am, why does it let you fill in the amount for a credit card donation in two places? Grrrrrr.)

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd4:10 pm 29 Aug 12

c_c said :

“The Canberra Liberals have spent four years building a strong plan…”

…which is so good mere voters are unable to comprehend it, so we haven’t released. Trust us though, it’s super.

Show us your policies Zed.

This. exactly right. Zeds only policy seems to be to bash Katy. the rest of the liberals are not much better.
How do they expect peeps to vote for them when they litterally have no policy in the public eye?

colourful sydney racing identity said :

Jim Jones said :

colourful sydney racing identity said :

Which taxes are they lowering?

All of them, obviously.

ah, I see that is how they will pay for their ‘greater investment in roads and parking’…

Yeah, well, they do that by stopping all the waste you see.

colourful sydney racing identity3:59 pm 29 Aug 12

Jim Jones said :

colourful sydney racing identity said :

Which taxes are they lowering?

All of them, obviously.

ah, I see that is how they will pay for their ‘greater investment in roads and parking’…

colourful sydney racing identity said :

Which taxes are they lowering?

All of them, obviously.

colourful sydney racing identity3:23 pm 29 Aug 12

Which taxes are they lowering?

“The Canberra Liberals have spent four years building a strong plan…”

…which is so good mere voters are unable to comprehend it, so we haven’t released. Trust us though, it’s super.

Show us your policies Zed.

Madam Cholet3:09 pm 29 Aug 12

That’s how political parties work – thy seek donations. Can’t say I would respond, (and I did get one of these as well), but some people may be that motivated to change governments that they might. It’s a very easy thing to file it in the recycling instead of getting over wrought about it. Personally I get more upset about junk mail from Target.

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