[FairLakesTeaparty] Interesting spam about teaparty

[Stuart D Gathman]

The email authenticates as coming from credoaction.com:

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If you didn't think that leftism is a religion, consider the company name...

The pitch:

   HAS YOUR PHONE COMPANY BEEN FUELING THE TEA PARTY -- OR PROGRESSIVE CHANGE?

So how did it come to pass that Tea Party-backed candidates like Michele
Bachmann, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and Pat Toomey won last Tuesday? Who
helped them spread their extremist views and trash their opponents?

AT&T sure did.

CREDO Mobile would never give a dime to any Tea Party candidate. We fight
the right wing and we raise millions of dollars each year for progressive
nonprofit groups.

But AT&T is not CREDO.

o AT&T was the top contributor -- with a whopping $351,500 -- to members
of the House Tea Party Caucus, led by the extremist Michele Bachmann,
according to July totals from OpenSecrets.org.(1
#sources
)

o AT&T contributed to the Senate Conservatives Fund, which raised money
for Christine O'Donnell, Joe Miller, Ken Buck, Sharron Angle, and Rand
Paul -- all backed by the Tea Party.(2
#sources
)

o AT&T's political action committee was recently ranked by Opensecrets.org
as one of the biggest political contributors in the 2009-2010 cycle.(3
#sources
)

It's time to make the switch -- to America's only progressive phone
company, CREDO Mobile
http://action.credomobile.com/specialoffers/nov10/1.html?ph=def&rc=values_click&id=12343-3053975-uDpogsx&t=98
..

Since 1985, CREDO has raised more than $65 million for nonprofits like
Rainforest Action Network, Planned Parenthood,
Doctors Without Borders,
  Earthjustice  and
the ACLU. And our CREDO
Action network of 1.5 million activists fights for progressive causes like
net neutrality, marriage equality and a woman's right to choose.

.... lots of ad links deleted ....

FROM OUR MEMBERS   "Before I knew about CREDO, I was giving close to a
thousand dollars a year to an undeserving, multi-billion-dollar
corporation.... I never thought I would belong to a cell phone company
that I would enjoy giving my money to. I would much rather support a
company that stands for progressive change." -- Rachel F., CREDO Mobile
member

Join us on Facebook
http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=4716&id=12343-3053975-uDpogsx&t=184
and Twitter
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for progressive news and more.

Sources:
1) Open Secrets blog:
opensecrets.org/news/2010/07/members-of-tea-party-caucus-major-r.html
http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=6070&id=12343-3053975-uDpogsx&t=188

2) Donations to the Senate Conservatives Fund (Federal Election Commission
site):
query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_rcvd/C00448696/
http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=6390&id=12343-3053975-uDpogsx&t=189

3) Open Secrets:
opensecrets.org/pacs/index.php?cycle=2010&party=A
http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=6493&id=12343-3053975-uDpogsx&t=190