Some years ago I sent $20 or something the Republican National Committee. I stupidly thought the RNC would use my $20 to support the forces of good in the world. But thinking about it I would have been just as stupid thinking that if I’d have given the Democratic National Committee the money.

Anyway, the RNC has been hounding me for cash ever since. I get letters, phone calls, e-mails, late night visits to my house by men in dark suits who get out of black helicopters, etc. I’ve never given them another dime but they’re never stopped trying to get one out of me.

This election cycle I’ve had it with the RNC. I hate that Ron Paul was completely marginalized by the party and considered a fringe whacko for saying things that were true but not part of the bullshit party line. So during one of the calls from the RNC (whose Caller ID comes back “Unknown” and who never leaves a voicemail, but will try calling every single day, by the way) I told the person on the phone to suck it and take my name off the “do call” list in favor of the “do not call” list.

This worked for a while. Until this week, when the familiar “Unknown” showed back up on the Caller ID and no voicemails were left when I didn’t answer.

I answered this morning and the person on the other end asked if I was me, identified herself as being from the RNC and immediately went into her spiel. As soon as she got to the “Mc” in John McCain, I cut her off and informed her that I’ve already asked to not get these calls anymore and inquired as to why I was no longer on the “do not call” list but was back on the “do call” list. She told me that several organizations are making fund raising calls and that it was probably another one that I asked to put me on the “do not call” list.

I called bullshit and told her that I don’t care who’s calling when they all identify themselves as the Republican National Committee (and all come back as “Unknown” on the Caller ID) and that it was now up to her to make sure that I am on the “do not call” list of all the organizations that raise funds in the name of the RNC and thank you very much.

So now I sit hoping to never get another politcal fund raising call, but certain that when it comes to money no political organization will ever be shameful enough to let some poor shmuck keep his.

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On a side note, did you know a large national big box retailer had to alter its community grant policy because organizations such as the Lung Association (but not necessarily the Lung Association) would pester every store in the state for a grant, whether the organization had an interest in the community the store was located in or not, and get belligerent with it when the store either didn’t give them one or offered less than the organization wanted? It’s true!

Greed works every which way.