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CAMPAIGN FUNDING — IT CAN DRIVE YOU NUTS!
By
William A. Gralnick
You better read this. It is being written by someone that a lot of organizations think is one of the most active and generous members of one of the nation’s two major political parties. For example, I’ve just been invited to be a member of the Florida Presidential Advisory Committee. I don’t know if I can do it because I’ve also been asked to join the Democratic National Committee Advisory Committee and the Take Back the Senate Advisory Committee.
If I join those, I don’t know if I’ll have time to do the emergency stuff. After all, I’m the only person in Palm Beach County not to have answered the question about Barack Obama being a member of the Supreme Court. It appears I’m one of only 534 voters not to have answered as to whether or not I’m sure I will vote for Joe Biden. Equally as important, for the fifth, sixth, or seventh time I have to immediately swear I have not switched parties and there are probably twice that many pleadings to oppose Trump being on the ballot or to ban Big Macs, the idea I suppose is to put him into gastric withdrawal. I’ll have to make some quick choices, but uh–stop the presses. Breaking news. MSNBC has appointed me to represent Florida in their up-and-coming poll. OMG. But the pressure keeps building. Being important is not easy.
So, you see, I’m a very popular boy. And each of these comes with a survey to fill out and a cry for money. If I don’t give, then some of the pleas come with this, “YOU PROMISED TO…