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Dear David,

Thank you for your response.
I have too much faith in the integrity of OPB to believe that there would be an endorsement for a political party on your show - so no, that is not what I heard this morning. Also, yes, it would seem relevant to ask a question as to why someone should donate to a cause when the topic of conversation is about a lack of funding, however what bothered me was perhaps the way the question was asked, something along the lines of ?tell me your pitch? or ?share your pitch? and the response I heard from the staff of the Oregon Republican Party was just that ? a pitch.

It was not a fear of a tacit endorsement that upset me, but rather that providing an opening for solicitation of political contributions on my public radio seemed inappropriate (to me). I?m willing to be wrong about this ? perhaps I misinterpreted or perhaps I overreact. Either way, thank you for providing me space to air my concern.

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This is an interesting subject and I appreciate that the Communications Director of the Oregon Republican Party will of course speak kindly to her own organization - but I've just been fuming on my drive into work because the host of this show just asked this Party representative to make a "pitch" on public radio airwaves for donations to the Republican party! Wha?
It would bother me if this was the case for a representative from the D.P.O. as well.

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