aark (10/27/82)
Maybe I'd contribute to political candidates if they all used John Chafee's methods: [from Time, November 1, 1982, p. 22] "Senator John Chafee, running for his Republican life in Rhode Island, last week got up the nerve to indulge a growing political suspicion. To raise funds, he held a non-event. For $25 a supporter could stay home. For $35 he or she received an autographed copy of the speech Chafee did not deliver. For $40 the contributor was excused from reading it. The hopeless political junkie with $75 to give was invited to a chicken dinner -- in his own home, with the chicken sent in from Colonel Sanders'. For $150 the Senator and his wife dined with the donors, and a tape of the speech was played at a level that was mercifully inaudible. Chafee raked in an astonishing $6,000 through the grateful dread." Alan R. Kaminsky Bell Laboratories, Naperville, IL ...ihps3!ihuxe!aark