Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Once Again, Texas Leads the Way

Perry camp uses Amway as model | Rick Casey | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle: "You know those ads that promise to show you how to make thousands of dollars working at home on your personal computer?

They're mainly bogus, of course.

But Gov. Rick Perry, ever dedicated to helping the Texas economy, has come up with a program to allow Texans to do just that.

It's sort of a campaign version of Facebook meets Amway.

The Dallas Morning News called attention Tuesday to the program, which is described at hq.rickperry.org/about, a Perry campaign Web site.

Here is the deal.

• You sign up at the Perry Web site to obtain your own campaign Web page.

• You then get 11 of your friends, located anywhere in Texas, to commit to voting for Perry as part of your team and put their names on your page.

• You make sure your 11 friends get to the polls during the early voting period next spring. You call them, you cajole them and you drive them to the polls if necessary.

Once you do all those things, you get paid $20 for each friend you recruit."

6 comments:

Deb said...

I'm not sure, but isn't it against the law to pay someone to vote? In the past, I recall programs that, for example, gave people a free ice cream cone if they showed their "I Voted" sticker were disallowed because it was like bribing someone to vote.

Unknown said...

According to the article, you're not being paid to vote. You're being paid to get your friends to vote. So it's all legal.

Richard Robinson said...

This is a pyramid scheme, right? I get 11 people to go one my site, they each get 11 to go on their site...

Unknown said...

Exacto-mundo!

Anonymous said...

I can just see you and Joe Lansdale going for this...or maybe putting it in a book.


Jeff

Unknown said...

Well, one never knows.