G.O.P. Campaign Outreach Tool: Gun Sweepstakes

[SecularMotion]

Hand over your email address to a political campaign, and typically all you can expect in return is an endless stream of solicitations for money.

But one supporter of Greg Brophy, a state senator who is running for governor in Colorado, got something else: a Smith & Wesson M&P15 rifle.

It was the top prize in “Greg Brophy’s Gun Club Giveaway,” an online contest last month in which people handed over personal information that is the currency of modern political campaigns — first and last names, email addresses and phone numbers — and in exchange, one lucky winner would get the gun.

“I tricked this baby out,” said Mr. Brophy, a Republican, boasting about how he had added all manner of accessories — extra grips, a backup sight and a strap so it could be slung effortlessly over the shoulder.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/us/politics/gop-campaign-outreach-tool-gun-sweepstakes.html?hp&_r=0

[davidpdx]

1. The gun lobby can just donate accessories to be used in drawings

sick sick sick

[Sunlei]

4. How about a republican campaign prize for paid Funeral services! or a burial plot!

[davidpdx]

5. They don't have enough of a heart to care about a funeral service or a burial plot

dead bodies are all they care about.

[otohara]

2. Columbine Anniversary Today

what a dick who will never be Gov.

[Sunlei]

3. always though a prize was a good way to generate an email list. silly a Gun but GOP loves guns.

Let us all enter these GOP contests as the law requires open entry!!!