Day late, dollar short

Americans for Prosperity, that new, phony "grassroots" group pushing TABOR, TPA, and other right-wing schemes to strangle government in Wisconsin, has gone to the people with a direct mail fundraising effort.

In a six-page appeal letter -- not quite as long as the state constitution -- the group pushes hard for contributions.

Its wish list doesn't quite seem grounded in reality, telling prospective donors that $1,000 will pay for a week of television in a state senate district, $1,500 will pay for yard signs, and $2,400 will fund a Grassroots Training School to teach people how to be prosperous (or something like that.) If this is a group that spends more on yard signs than on TV, there is nothing to worry about.

They say that timing is everything.

The worst news for AFP is that the person who sent it to me received it in the mail on May 4 -- the same day the State Senate was voting to kill the Taxpayer Protection Amendment, the group's main focus.