Been about 10 days since I reported on the status of the Burgum for President campaign. I can report this morning that the e-mail machine is alive and well. I’ve gotten a couple of dozen more e-mails, at least two a day, since Doug announced he was running. I haven’t responded. Yet. But I might. You can as well. Just click on any of the links I’ve provided here, and you’ll be an official member of Team Burgum. And you can get the e-mails too. Here, take a look.
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DATE: June 16 8:35 AM
FROM: Kathryn Burgum
SUBJECT: My Husband Doug
MESSAGE: Sign our petition.
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DATE: June 16 3:00 PM
FROM: Team Burgum
SUBJECT: Flying off the shelves!
MESSAGE: Send $45 and get a tee shirt.
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DATE: June 17, 10:05 AM
FROM: Team Burgum
SUBJECT: Official Campaign Agenda Survey
MESSAGE: Watch a video and take a survey
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DATE: June 17, 5:30 PM
FROM: Team Burgum
SUBJECT: Doug Burgum for America Bumper Sticker
MESSAGE: Send us your mailing address (yeah, right) and we’ll send you a bumper sticker. For $20.
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DATE: June 18, 11:00 AM
FROM: Team Burgum
SUBJECT: $2 makes the difference
MESSAGE: Send $2 to help me get into the first debate (Note: It’ll take $40,000 of those $2 checks to qualify)
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DATE: June 18, 4:30 PM
FROM: Team Burgum
SUBJECT: Just $1
MESSAGE: “We need a $1 contribution from 40,000 brave patriots to secure our spot on the debate stage.” (Note: the most contemplative campaign photo so far. Kind of spooky, actually.)
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DATE: June 19, 8:35 AM
FROM: Doug Burgum
SUBJECT: In America, you are innocent until proven guilty.
MESSAGE: What about Joe Biden’s documents? Send $2.
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DATE: June 20, 10:30 AM
FROM: Doug Burgum
SUBJECT: Can you help us get to the stage?
MESSAGE: Sign that petition again.
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DATE: June 21, 7:00 AM
FROM: Doug Burgum
SUBJECT: Official Southern Border Security Survey
MESSAGE: Take a survey about how you feel about what’s going on in Texas (and by the way, we’re going to spend $2.2 million of North Dakota taxpayers’ money to send our National Guard down there). Oh, and did you know that you can send me $3,300 if you want to? (Dang, I can’t find my checkbook this morning.)
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DATE: June 21, 10:30 AM
FROM: Doug Burgum
SUBJECT: First and foremost…
MESSAGE: Send me a dollar and we’ll put your name on our donor honor wall. (But not your last name.)
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DATE: June 21, 11:30 AM
FROM: Doug Burgum
SUBJECT: Woke was what you did at 5 am to start the day
MESSAGE: Woke = Radical Left. (And could you send $2?)
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DATE: June 21 3:01 PM
FROM: Doug Burgum For America
SUBJECT: We’ll keep this short
MESSAGE: I haven’t qualified for the debate yet, but if you send $2, I’m sure that will do it.
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DATE: June 21 6:30 PM (fifth e-mail of the day)
FROM: Team Burgum
SUBJECT: 40,000
MESSAGE: I need 40,000 patriots to send me a dollar so I can get in the debate. (If you send a dollar today, he’ll only need 39,999 more.)
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DATE: June 22, 8:30 AM
FROM: Team Burgum
SUBJECT: The first Republican Presidential Debate is just about 2 months away
MESSAGE: Send $2
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DATE: June 23, 7:30 AM
FROM: Doug Burgum
SUBJECT: Can we count on you?
MESSAGE: Sign our petition (again)
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DATE: June 23, 11:01 AM
FROM: Doug Burgum
SUBJECT: Thank you for your support
MESSAGE: Please send $2 before 11:59 tonight.
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DATE: June 23, 3:15 PM
FROM: Doug Burgum
SUBJECT: You can make a difference
MESSAGE: Did I mention that I need 40,000 donors to get into the debate?
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DATE: June 23, 3:35 PM
FROM: Team Burgum
SUBJECT: Did you hear the news?
MESSAGE: We’ve reached 1% in the polls! (Note: I’ve never heard of a politician bragging about polling one per cent before.)
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DATE: June 23, 8:05 PM (A busy day!)
FROM: Doug Burgum
SUBJECT: The Biden Administration is 180 degrees wrong
MESSAGE: If you sign my petition and send $2, I’ll turn this country around.
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DATE: June 24, 7:30 AM
FROM: Team Burgum
SUBJECT: Keep our ads on the air
MESSAGE: I’ve spent a few million dollars of my own (don’t worry, I lave lots more) but if you send me one of your dollars, I’d buy more ads.
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DATE: June 24 11:01 AM
FROM: Team Burgum
SUBJECT: 10,000
MESSAGE: Join the thousands of other patriots who have already signed our Official Petition. (Thousands? Is it possible to see that list?)
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DATE: June 25 8:30 AM
FROM: Team Burgum
SUBJECT: We just checked the Donor List
MESSAGE: “Jim, Did you see our previous email? We’re still short several names on Doug Burgum’s Official Donor List. All we need is a $1 contribution from 40,000 brave patriots to secure our spot on the debate stage.” (Yeah, I saw all 30 or so of your previous e-mails. Doug, and I know, I know, I wasn’t on it. Let me know when the first 39,999 have donated and I’ll put you over the top.)
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DATE: June 25, 4:30 PM
FROM: Doug Burgum
SUBJECT: Official Doug Burgum for America Camo Hat
MESSAGE: Please contribute $42 or more today, and we’ll send you an Official Doug Burgum For America Camo Hat as a token of our gratitude.
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DATE: June 25, 9:05 PM
FROM: Doug Burgum
SUBJECT: Checking In
MESSAGE: **It’s important we collect 10,000 signatures before today is over, and we’d be grateful to have a grassroots patriot like you add your name**
(Well, I’m not sure what that deadline was all about, but I didn’t get that email until about 9 p.m. yesterday, so there wasnt much I could do to help. Dang, I hope he made it.)
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So, it’s already 8 a.m. Monday morning and I haven’t heard from Doug yet. I hope everything’s okay. I’ll report.
One thought on “JIM FUGLIE: View From The Prairie — The E-mails Just Keep On Comin’”
RIchard Watson June 26, 2023 at 10:28 am
this is most certainly true a wise dead man once said–my response to Gov Boringloom running will be evident here there and anywhere, hopefully civilized, my response, for how little it may or may not matter–I cherish the right of free speech and the responsibility to respond–the doors of my MINSTREL POET PEOPLE SALON on Face Book are always open–bless you, sir Jim, for speaking and thinking in your own fine ways
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