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One of my assumptions was that this was just for one day's work.  I  now 
see from this
 
_Click  here: Labor chief Trumka vows stronger ground game for elections - 
Washington  Times_ 
(http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/9/labor-chief-trumka-vows-stronger-ground-game-elect/)   that it is much more than that.
 
No, I don't know what the going rate for canvassers is.  Maybe someone  on 
the list serve can provide that info.  In any event, we are talking  about 
100s of millions of dollars for this effort.
 
And, JR, I know that your name calling is intended to chill my speech (boy, 
 we have seen a lot of that coming from the left these days) but, sorry, it 
 just won't work.  Jim Bopp

 
 
In a message dated 8/11/2012 9:29:00 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
jerald.lentini at gmail.com writes:

 
Jim, all else aside, do you really think the value of an in-kind  
contribution is what the person's normal hourly rate doing something  completely 
different would be, and not the value of the service actually  rendered?



Unless you think a canvassing program that happens outside  business hours 
should be valued as an in-kind contribution of what the  volunteers would 
make doing their regular jobs (which are most likely a little  more taxing 
than knocking on doors), then your snark makes no sense.  


-JR


On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 9:09 AM, <_JBoppjr at aol.com_ 
(mailto:JBoppjr at aol.com) > wrote:


AFL-CIO to send out 3 or 400,000 volunteers to  help Obama.  See
 
_Click here: Unions ready to send volunteers out for Obama |  Fox News_ 
(http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/09/unions-ready-to-send-volunteers-out-for-ob
ama/#ixzz2352FkkuX)  
 
    I have always been curious why the "reformers"  only focus only on 
money.  This sure seems like a very valuable  contribution to the Obama campaign 
to me (if this is coordinated, but I  cannot figure that out. Anyway the 
"reformers" say it doesn't matter --  corruption either way).  Many of these 
volunteers make 30, 40 or 50  dollars an hour, so this is a 144 million 
dollar contribution to the  Obama campaign. 400,000 x 8 x 40 = $144,000,000.
 
    And the "reformer" scream bloody murder over  contributions from 
corporations of a few thousand.  Jim  Bopp


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