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- GRAPEVINE, Page 21The Gift That Keeps on Giving
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- By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David E. Thigpen
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- The Republican presidential task force, a fund-raising arm
- of the G.O.P., has been sending out $25 checks to nearly
- 700,000 Americans. All the recipients have to do is endorse
- them and deposit them in their banks. However, there is a tiny
- little catch, as an accompanying letter explains. The deposited
- check gives the task force the right to withdraw $12.50 a month
- from the individual's account for what it calls candidate
- escrow funding. Lucky recipients of the checks are allowed to
- exit the program after two payments have been extracted --
- there goes the $25 -- but they are encouraged to remain
- participants and painlessly, perhaps endlessly, go on
- contributing $12.50 a month to the G.O.P.
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