Notice of Deliquency!!!

[Jimmy Higgins]

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Reiman was concerned, and when she opened the envelope found an invoice marked “PAST DUE.” The invoice asked Reiman for anywhere from $25 to $500 to make up for her past-due balance. But the attached letter began like this:

“This NOTICE OF DELINQUENCY has been sent to you because the Republican Party has contacted you multiple times to ask for your support of our 2016 campaign … But we have not heard back from you and time is running out.”

I hate getting stuff like this in the mail for stupid ads, especially about car sales. But for a political party to do it? Are they trying to fool or shame people into giving the Republican Party money?

And it may be illegal.

The agency’s website says sending a fundraising appeal disguised as an invoice is illegal.


“Title 39, United States Code, Section 3001, makes it illegal to mail a solicitation in the form of an invoice, bill, or statement of account due unless it conspicuously bears a notice on its face that it is, in fact, merely a solicitation,” the agency’s website says. “This disclaimer must be in very large (at least 30-point) type and must be in boldface capital letters in a color that contrasts prominently with the background against which it appears.”


None of these disclaimers is in the Republican National Committee’s pretend delinquency notice. The heading of the letter and the rest of the content does read like a pretty typical fundraising appeal, though.


Calls and emails to the RNC got no response.

 

[laughing dog]

This could be something from the Onion, but it is not.

 

[Derec]

Did whoever came up with that end up working for the Cruz campaign?

 

[Angry Floof]

All the GOP has is shame.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

I think we found our missing voter fraud.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Does it have a postage paid return envelope? Stuff it full of junk mail crap and mail it back!