A Celtic fan in Congress?

[douglas342 at aol.com]

Y'know, it didn't bother me much.  There's no harm is asking, at least in asking once.  Now, if the guy were to start repeated fundraising pitches,  or putting out campaign speeches, I would have a problem.  But one e-mail directing us to his website and asking for money?  Being a die hard Celtic fan gives him that much slack.
 
Anyway, it's Paul's call.  Whatever he wants to do is fine by me.
 
 - Doug, whose only other list is 80% offtopic, but delightfully so
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: kmalo17 at verizon.net
To: celtics at igtc.com
Sent: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: A Celtic fan in Congress?


At 04:51 PM 7/20/2006, Eric Albert wrote:

> >No offense, but I think soliciting for a political campaign is way 
> out of line for this list.
> >
> >Steve O
>
>I respectfully disagree.  It's certainly off-topic, and I think it's 
>great how this list
>manages to stay so on-topic.
>
>But the poster *is* a real Celtics fan who's posted a bunch of 
>on-topic messages.
>In my mind, that gives him leeway to post a personal message every 
>couple of years.

Sure, but he was trolling for money Eric. That's the real problem. It 
wasn't just an announcement of his running for congress, which would 
have been offtopic but probably bearably so. He pretty clearly posted 
specifically to solicit donations under the dubious justification of 
being a Celtics fan and of course we'd like to support that. Like 
there aren't any others in congress and like that justifies spamming the list.

Kim 

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