Republican donors… (or at least former ones) around South Dakota are receiving a fundraising letter from the SDGOP which.. well, it’s really not that good. At all. I’m not sure if it was written by monkeys banging randomly on typewriter keys, but there’s that possibility.
In case you didn’t get one of these.. Just a few things I caught.
First off, the letter isn’t coming from South Dakota. Despite numerous options, please take note of the postal permit, as they spent the party’s coin from South Dakota donors with a mail vendor out of Arizona:
That takes us to the letter itself, which they didn’t bother to mail merge. Instead, coldly addressing it to something about as heart warming as ‘dear occupant,’ except going to ‘dear fellow patriot.’ Which apparently former 32-year Democrat and Obama supporter Jim Eschenbaum now must consider himself.
From here we get into a letter which is just rife with grammatical errors and a misspelling or two. Not to mention that it is jammed in there & very poorly laid out.
Interesting how they claim to need funding for their ‘most critical programs.’ Strategic Newsletters and Public Relations? Well, we all know that they certainly haven’t done a newsletter for quite some time. And I can’t wait to see how they handle ‘candidate recruitment,’ or ‘voter education and community outreach.’
Or what about their “voter education mail program?” As in “what voter education mail program?” They haven’t had any money to do any educational mailings since the funding dried up 2 years ago.
I do knowing that my member code is “PB25111” in the lower right corner of page 2. Because I had someone else send me the copy of the letter that they received.
HEY! Their member code is also PB25111! That’s MY code! Someone should check on that. I think there may be an error, and I wouldn’t want my donation to get mixed up with theirs.
One of the weirdest things about the letter is that it says nothing about the current leaders of the state. Nothing about Senators Thune or Rounds. Nothing about Congressman Dusty Johnson. Nothing even about Governor Rhoden. Supporting candidates is WHY people donate (correction used to donate) to the Republican Party. Yet, they don’t seem to know their names, eschewing any mention of them in favor of their own self-importance.
Speaking of a false sense of self-importance, please note that former 32-year Democrat Jim Eschenbaum’s name is on every piece of paper in the fundraising packet. Even the return envelope! …because someone thinks people care about that, or in case someone missed it the other three times?
By any stretch of the imagination, this fundraising letter just plain sucks. It claims activities that just aren’t happening, as well as things that they haven’t done so far, so we shouldn’t expect them to start doing them anytime soon.
We’ll know at some point whether it was effective enough to make the money back that it cost them to send it out. I tend to doubt that’s going to happen with their Arizona letter.
Absolutely no doubt that Eschenbama has an inflated opinion of himself!
He’s the only person that doesn’t realize how stupid he is!
So many things to criticize that I don’t know where to start so I will just say:
THANKS BUT NO THANKS
grudznick threw this letter in the bin. Anybody with real conservative principles would not give this Mr. Eschenbaum an extra napkin at breakfast. Mr. Ahlers has to be just guffawing his belly sore on this sort of business.
Shaking my head. Well, it was nice being the dominant party while it lasted.
Can’t wait to see Eschenbama try to get people to pay to attend the SDGOP state convention next year. He was part of the group that complained about paying for the Republican convention in Watertown. I will be one of the “Saturday Free Attendees”. I will drink their coffee, eat their food, vote for nominees and leave without giving the party a dime.
Sounds like a great plan to me.
They sent a letter listing the reasons why people aren’t donating and asking people to donate because of those same reasons. The lack of awareness is impressive.
I didn’t realize the what, 9 Democrats in the entire legislature constituted the “radical left, much less a “threat.” The last I checked, the entire electorate of the state seems clearly opposed to making any moves very far right or left off of it’s one degree to the right off dead center position.
If there is a threat it comes form this organization itself and its utter inability to recruit and promote solid, conservative candidates who have the intellectual capacity to formulate and enact policies to meet the very real challenges facing South Dakota. Instead we have misguided zealots who are more interested in bringing society and culture in line with its warped ideals with their “with us or an enemy of us” mentality.
Yet, here we are.
Very amusing letter. It is in my recycling bin. Sorry, PP, I didn’t check my so-called Member number.
The work is done by those who show up.
And we saw who showed up. Those who are anti economic development. Those who want local control until it doesn’t fit their agenda. Those who want to defund certain school districts. Those who want to lock up librarians. Those who advocate shooting down airplanes. Those who don’t want school children vaccinated.
Exactly. No one else showed up or put in an effort, so maybe this can be a rally call for people to actually show up and do the work.
But is the work being done? I would argue that the work is NOT being done. After all, the purpose of the Party is to get Republicans elected, is it not? Yet the SDGOP’s ad for the hunt says that the money they raise will go to support their agenda. I know it sounds like I’m exaggerating, but I’m not. The ad literally says that. You can’t make this stuff up!
I would argue that whatever they’re doing, they’re advancing their agenda. They are NOT doing the work of the party.