Fraud ain’t protected speech. DOJ should be compelled to investigate:
The controversial business of selling grassroots political campaigns is getting the spotlight treatment as details continue to emerge about the source of fake letters sent to a first-term member of Congress urging him to vote against the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill.
[…] Perriello, a first-term Democrat from a central Virginia district Republicans are keen to retake in 2010, also received letters that claimed to be from members of a chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; the letters bear a striking similarity to the one attributed to Creciendo Juntos. M. Rick Turner, president of the NAACP Albemarle-Charlottesville Branch, confirmed that the letters are fake—none of the five individuals who purportedly signed the letters are employed by his organization.via Forged climate bill letters spark uproar over ‘astroturfing’ | Grist.
Who else received these letters?