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‘What Is With These Guys?’

by David Kurtz
04.26.10 | 5:49 am
RNC Chairman Michael Steele

The RNC continues to send out deceptive mailers designed to look like census documents just weeks after Congress passed a law aimed at making such practices illegal and requiring certain information on the envelope to prevent recipients from being mislead. We have the mailer and the RNC’s response: The law doesn’t apply to us.

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