I have an email account dedicated to Republican spam. It's gotten quite full lately, as the 'Pubs have taken a page from the Dems' notebook on the supposed effectiveness of bombarding the living shit out of people's inboxes with every "famous" party name and fundraising scam they can think of.
Look, it's Mitt Romney! He's Triple-Matched!
Over the past week, the 'Pubs are even going to depths even the Dems won't touch, like the one with the header saying "Mike (personal)" from "info@nrsc." (Had to respond to that one--"Hi, Mike. Do I know you?" Didn't make a dent).
Today, I got another NRSC spam with the tempting subject line, "Pizza." Hey, what's this? I like pizza. Better check it out.
Winning campaigns are run on many things.
Much of the media focus is rightly on the advertising strategy, debate performances, technology and the overall message – the nuts and bolts of a modern campaign. These are all important areas, where we’re doing an incredible amount of work.
However, as someone who’s run more than a few winning grassroots campaigns, I’d like to let you in on a hidden weapon: pizza.
There are 24 days left in the campaign. Every day, we’ve got literally tens of thousands of volunteers around the country making millions of voter contacts. They’re diligently making phone calls and walking neighborhoods to identify and turn out the voters we need to win.
However, there’s an old saying that every successful campaign manager must remember: hungry troops can’t fight.
For those of you who don’t live in a battleground area, this is a great way to provide fuel to the grassroots army that’s fighting on the front lines of the 2014 campaign.
Chip in $20.14 – or more if you can - to the Volunteer Pizza Fund.
Let’s make sure that our volunteers have the fuel to put in those extra few hours and deliver those last few votes that could make the difference between victory and defeat.
Let’s Win,
Jeremy
Grassroots Coordinator
If you’d prefer, you can donate to the general account here
(Bolds in original email were links).
Hey, isn't that great? The national senatorial committee's actually thinking about the little guys down in the trenches, grinding out the last minute phone calls and door hangers.
Like the way, around every November, kossacks identify the pizza parlors close to campaign HQs in various towns, post the phone numbers, and encourage each other to send a pie to the troops. Or the effort to get pizza to the voters waiting in interminably long (Republican-created) polling lines.
Pizza. It's something we can all understand. Something that unites us all. For a minute, I felt a kind of universal human kinship with my 'Pub brothers and sisters.
Until I checked the links. Both of them go directly to the NRSC general fund. There is no "Volunteer Pizza Fund."
Oh, I'm sure there will be pizza somewhere for Republicans volunteers on election night. And coffee and soft drinks and doughnuts.
But there's something sad about a party that will raise money on the promise of getting pizza to the hard-working kids then just sweeping the dough into the general fund.
Come on, guys. This is pizza we're talking about. Is nothing sacred?