The PC government of Doug Ford has an interesting fund-raising scam scheme. It consists of sending an 'invoice' to people:
Some Ontario residents have received mail correspondence asking them to donate to the PC’s election campaign, however, the letters have been designed to appear as invoices.
Kingston resident Greg Gies received one such letter, instructing him that he owed $800 to the party.
“Just above the address box window, in red letters, it says ‘Important Invoice Enclosed,’ right under the Ontario PC identification on the upper left-hand side,” Gies told CTV News Toronto on Wednesday.
The envelope included the fake invoice, alongside a letter written by Ontario Fund chair Tony Miele, stating that the PCs are readying their "war chest" to continue the good work and the good fight and claiming that's why invoices have been sent out.
“[The body of the letter] mentions the word ‘invoice’ three times,” Gies said.
Gies said that, while he used to donate to the PCs, he hasn’t in nearly a decade, but assumes that his past donations are why he received the fake invoice.
“My first reaction was that it looked a lot like Trump's fundraising letters that we see going around on social media,” he said.
CTV's Colin D'Mello spoke to a woman who received this shameful mailing:
So far, no one in the Tory braintrust has addressed this scandal, but no doubt, after they put on their collective thinking caps, they will blame it on a 'rogue employee' or volunteer, despite the fact that it has the imprimatur of Tony Miele, Ontario Fund chair.
But then, their ilk always finds some "useful idiot" to blame, don't they?
UPDATE: I'm glad that's all cleared up. A 'third-party service provider' did it. From Sean O'Shea:
EXCLUSIVE Hallway interview with Chair of the Ontario PC Fund, Tony Miele. We staked out for 2.5 hours. Who approved the fake invoice marketing scheme? What misunderstanding? Who is losing their job? Here’s the raw interview.
