The other day, walking across the central courtyard of Linn-Benton Community College, I was approached by a smiling young man with a clipboard, inviting me to "sign a petition to help crack down on child molestors".
I relied, "With a come-on as wholesome and all-American as that, you're obviously working a scam, but I don't have time to figure out what."
He answered with an embarrassed smile and I walked on.
Now I learn that their scam was worse than I'd supposed: they weren't just after money, they were trying to trick people into changing their voter registration to Republican.
I'm not exactly sure who they thought this would benefit. If they were trying to prevent people from voting in the primaries, that would make a certain amount of sense. Or if (as other Republicans have done) they pretended to be registering people to vote but shredding all the non-Republican ones, that would be logical (though loathsome). But I don't see the advantage they gain by this particular scam.
1 comment:
well they would gain a smack across the face from me! how dare they!
great blog, by the way! even if you do think i look like lucy liu! :p
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