Possible Democratic Fund Raising Idea

02/22/2006

Paul Munnis

I have a wonderful idea for a Democratic Fundraiser.

Let’s start a “GOP Scandal Of The Month Club.”

We could have categories like: Bush Administration, Supreme Court, Justice Department, Treasury Department, House, Senate, President, Vice, President, State Department, etc.

Then we could have subcategories like: Crime, Lobbying, Stupid Action, Foreign Action, Executive Privilege, Shootings, Scalpings, Diplomatic Failures, Fleecing the Public, Intelligence Failure, etc.

Then we could have a series of actions like: Bribery, Theft, Embezzlement, Payola, Campaign Contributions, Law Violations, Torture and Abuse, Lack of a Bird Stamp, etc.

With a little imagination we could get hundreds of Categories, Sub-categories, and Actions. That would really push the odds up like in a real national lottery.

Then we could add time delay periods like an Hour, a Day, a Week, as the “period of time elapsed” since the last GOP scandal occurred.

We could have a cabinet member name—as a sort of leveraged win purchase option, “pays times five,” like that see..

People could buy tickets betting upon the nature of the scandal and the time period since the last scandal and who caused it, and we could have a drawing every Friday night. Tickets could be $5 each and would benefit the Democratic Campaign Committee for supporting needy Democratic Candidates that are running for election.

It wouldn’t then seem so bad that none of these things are ever punished or resolved—we would just look forward to being the jackpot winner and just not worry about the rest of it. Why worry anyhow? Just makes ‘ya old.

What’s that? Illegal?

Hmmm… will somebody please ask a K Street lobbiest for advice.

An Online Board Game huh? Sort’a like “Clue?” ‘Ya pay to play, using PayPal. That’s interesting.