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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I donated a metric amount of dollars over years to campaigns of one of my former classmates who is now a (D) senator and I was so proud of them when they were elected.

For several years I've now been sincerely buying into the idea that they are just holding on to office knowing they can't change a thing just to keep that donation money flowing in.

Didn't realize I was just such a small fry until I got an invitation to attend their inauguration ceremony and took it seriously with the RSVP included and everything.

I RSVP'd and got all excited I'd finally see Washington DC and my daughter would get to meet a US senator, and then I got a call from an apologetic assistant that it was not actually a "real invitation" it was just a "courtesy" for donors like me. And that we were not actually expected to respond affirmatively.

And that no one would get "face time" with "the senator" but that they could hook me up with hotels where they would have live feeds of the swearing in ceremony.

That's when I got the first inkling that I was only as important as my (small - $2700) check. [/quote]
I’m sorry this happened, but it doesn’t sound typical. I worked on a U.S. senate campaign, and when our candidate won, basically everyone who volunteered for more than a few door-knocking shifts was invited to the victory party. It’s bizarre that a campaign would invite people to a ceremonial swearing in since a) those events usually have room for a handful of family and friends at best, and b) sending the invitation through the campaign raises ethics concerns. My guess is counsel told your former classmate about the ethics issue, and whichever poor campaign staffer called you up did a bad job fudging an excuse.[/quote]

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