Just a Smidge

Just a Smidge

Fun-raising

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Marc Schmatjen
Mar 03, 2011
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My oldest son is in kindergarten, and two out of our three boys are playing T-ball this year, so I have begun a new chapter in my life. I now shake people down for money. The different organizations usually call it "fundraising,” but let’s be serious about what we’re doing. Extortion. Coercion. Racketeering. That’s more like it.

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