Dear Lucas,
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Hi, I’m Will Forte. |
| Hi, I’m Richard Dean Anderson. |  |
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You might know us from the characters we’ve played on screen. I played the lovable idiot MacGruber, a parody of -- |
| A popular character I played on TV, let’s just say that. | |
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Ah. Okay. Anyway, we’re writing because our friend, Al Franken, is running out of time in his fight to keep working for Minnesota families in the U.S. Senate. And when I hear “running out of time,” I know what that means: It’s time for a dangerous stunt that’s sure to backfire. |
| Actually, Will, I'm going to suggest we go in another direction. What say we ask (nicely of) my fellow Minnesotans and those receiving this email, to click on to this link and donate $5 to help Al take on the special interests in the last week of this campaign. | |
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Right. Take $5 and then light it on fire. |
| No, no. Will. You’re thinking like your character. And with a new Super PAC attack, and polls showing the race in single digits, we don’t have time for that. We want people to donate that $5 to help Al’s campaign build a people-powered GOTV machine that can overcome the influence of the Super PACs and their allies in the right-wing smear-o-sphere. | |
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A machine! Yes. Perfect. Let’s build a machine that sprays noxious fumes in the face of whoever is trying to use it -- that way, we can -- |
| Will. | |
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Okay. Sorry. You’re right. By the way, how do you get your text to do that cool bold underlined thing when you ask for money? |
| I’ll tell you later. It involves a grapefruit, a necktie, and some highly compressed gas. | |
Thanks for supporting our friend Al!
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P.S.: Al always includes a P.S. on every fundraising email. I assume it’s there to give the bad guys extra time to escape. |
| No, actually, it’s there to give him a place for an extra ask -- one that encourages people to donate $5 toward helping him overcome the special interests! | |