To Congressman Tom Cole: QUIT LYING TO ME!

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Back in January, I wrote this post, describing how Congressman Tom Cole’s National Republican Congressional Committee was offering to award me a leadership award for the business advisory council.   The catch was that I would be expected to donate a few hundred dollars to them, supposedly to fund a press release talking about it.  Nevermind the fact that a press release should, by no means, cost that much.  Nor should it be funded by the people you are supposed to be awarding!    If you want to give me an award, fine, but don’t expect ME to pay for YOU to tell people about it.   But I digress…

Probably a month and  a half later, I got another call from NRCC – again informing me of the great honor being bestowed upon me, and how I am being given a leadership award, blah blah blah.   They then played a (very offensive to me) audio recording of Tom Cole lambasting the newly elected democrats in congress who want to take away all of my small business rights, and how the Republicans are the only ones who have my interests at heart.   Given that I believe the only way to improve our nation is to work TOGETHER, I found the message conveyed to be rather offensive.    I felt, though, that if it was perhaps a legitimate invitation and award, I would perhaps be in a position to offer a voice of reason and could work to get people on both sides of the isle cooperating with each other, rather than working against each other.

After the recording,  the person I talked with briefly when I first called in came back on the line,    as I expected she went into detail about how they were going to do a press release, etc,  and how a contribution would be great.    Given that I’d heard this spiel before, I decided I would try and get more information about it – I specifically asked if  a contribution is required to receive the award.   I was informed, to my surprise, that no – a contribution is NOT required to receive the award, but that they greately appreciate any contributions that are given.   I told her I couldn’t contribute at the time,  but would consider them in the future.   I doubt in the future I’d feel any more compelled to give than I do now, but you never know.

I was told they would mail me information and a packet of things as part of this – yet it never came.    They never called back, and I’ve received no further correspondence.    I was lied to.

You see,   had I contributed, I have no doubt in my mind that I would have received more information and they would have done whatever they could to get me to keep giving them money.    Once they realized, however, that I probably would never give them money, they stopped bothering with this stupid little ploy of theirs.   They never sent me anything because,  no surprise here,   I no longer mean anything to them.    Not that I meant much to them before (just potential $$ in their coffers) ,  but now I’m not worth their time.    So much for being worthy of their leadership award.

Congressman Tom Cole should be ashamed of himself, and of the NRCC.   Their tactics are shameful,  his message is one of hate,  and the whole business advisory council thing is nothing more than a sham.    How many innocent businessmen have you conned into giving you money in the hopes that it will help them network in washington?  How long does it take for them to realize you’re full of crap and the Business Advisory Council is really a non-entity?

So,   Congressman Cole,   what do you have to say for yourself?    IF I am wrong, and your organization was sincere in it’s award to me,   go right on ahead and prove me wrong.

As it stands, I’m sick and tired of corrupt politicians,  lies and just plain underhanded tactics.   We need to clean up our society,  and the only way to truly do that is to clean up Washington and force our politicians to act in a manner that reflects well upon our chosen form of government, our country and all of her people.

[tags] Tom Cole,  NRCC, National Republican Congressional Committee,  Business Advisory Council [/tags]