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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFor those of you who can't imagine Trump attorney Jay Sekulow being an even bigger sack of excrement
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/revealed-trump-lawyer-lined-his-pockets-by-targeting-the-poor-in-telemarketing-scheme-for-his-christian-charity/
The Guardian reports that Sekulows nonprofit group Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism (Case) gave its telemarketers at the start of the Great Recession instructions on how to convince people who were broke or unemployed to fork over sacrificial gifts.
In a cheat sheet given to Case telemarketers, employees are instructed to respond with empathy if people tell them that theyre unemployed or have no money. However, it then tells them to push them hard to give money anyway.
I can certainly understand how being unemployed/having limited funds would make it EXTREMELY DIFFICULT to help with a gift right now, the paper reads. We dont ever want to put you in a financial bind. Could you possibly make a small sacrificial gift of even $20 within the next three weeks?
The Guardian says that Sekulow personally signed off on these tactics, and he and his family have been well compensated for their work running Case and other nonprofits over the years.
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For those of you who can't imagine Trump attorney Jay Sekulow being an even bigger sack of excrement (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Jun 2017
OP
Preachers and their surrogates have been extracting money from gullible dopes
gilbert sullivan
Jun 2017
#3
niyad
(113,701 posts)1. my imagination is pretty good, but that is utterly despicable.
underpants
(182,970 posts)2. Uh oh. Jared and Skhreli have new competition
For the "most punchable face" contest
gilbert sullivan
(192 posts)3. Preachers and their surrogates have been extracting money from gullible dopes
in exchange for an imaginary product for centuries. This guy used to be Pat ROBert$on's catamite.
Botany
(70,627 posts)4. He is a perfect fit for Trump and company .... from the article
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/27/trump-lawyer-jay-sekulow-donations
Case raises tens of millions of dollars a year, much of it in small amounts from Christians who receive direct appeals for money over the telephone or in the mail. The telemarketing contracts obtained by the Guardian show how fundraisers were instructed by Sekulow to deliver bleak warnings about topics including abortion, Sharia law and Barack Obama.
Its time to let the president know that his vision of America is obscured and represents a dangerous threat to the Judea-Christian values that have been the cornerstone of our republic, one script from 2015 said.
A 2013 script warned listeners that Obamas signature healthcare law, the Affordable Care Act, promised to give Planned Parenthood federal funding to open abortion referral clinics in your childs or grandchilds middle school or high school.
Case raises tens of millions of dollars a year, much of it in small amounts from Christians who receive direct appeals for money over the telephone or in the mail. The telemarketing contracts obtained by the Guardian show how fundraisers were instructed by Sekulow to deliver bleak warnings about topics including abortion, Sharia law and Barack Obama.
Its time to let the president know that his vision of America is obscured and represents a dangerous threat to the Judea-Christian values that have been the cornerstone of our republic, one script from 2015 said.
A 2013 script warned listeners that Obamas signature healthcare law, the Affordable Care Act, promised to give Planned Parenthood federal funding to open abortion referral clinics in your childs or grandchilds middle school or high school.