Can I Kick It?: Why Democrats Spam Your Inbox For Money

“Mr. Dinkins, would you please be my mayor?
You’ll be doing us a really big favor.” — Can I Kick It, By A Tribe Called Quest: Phife Dog.

This past week Nancy Pelosi, Stacey Abrams, Adam Schiff, and a host of other prominent Democrats furiously attacked my inbox with emails. My Gmail account was under siege. Each one of these luminaries, in the political arena, desperately pleaded with me to send them a meager $5.00. I was embarrassed for them. The first woman Speaker of the House should not debase herself for the equivalent cost of a tall pumpkin spice latte. It was unseemly. Yet the deluge of emails continued. Some professing all was lost unless I rush them $10.00! One email said that Trump didn’t expect me to send them any money and I needed to prove Trump wrong by sending $20.00. What I found even more bizarre was that some benevolent benefactor was holding their massive donation hostage unless I sent in a measly $8.00. At each end of the quarter my email is besieged by a torrent of these pleas and each quarter I leave them unread, unopened, and unresponded to, but why do they keep coming? Because I leave them unread, unopened, and unresponded to.

How Did The Campaign Get My Email In The First Place?

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