To Whom I May Concern: The successful filing of my last memo and the lack of response from you, the FEC, suggests that everyone's at least OK for now with my using these memos as a public soapbox. A soapbox which is tucked inside an aging filing system and whose only publicity relies on the interest of campaign finance blogs who have found this PAC amusing so far, but a soapbox nonetheless. Actually, now that I think about it, the whole "blog" side of these memos is interesting, as least from a longevity point of view. WordPress can go dark at some point, but it seems reasonable that the Federal Election Commission will be holding onto the data of this memo indefinitely. That's assuming, of course, that the FEC doesn't get mad at me for this. Although I really don't imagine they would. Would you, FEC filer? I imagine that since this is technically a memo there is someone who is reading this right now wondering why on earth this PAC is wasting his or her time. To you, dear filer, I mean no additional burden or ill will; I'm just curious, I suppose. As long as I'm mentioning you, dear filer, I can't help but feel like I owe you a name. Since you're not likely the same person each time, and since your gender is ambiguous from where I sit, perhaps a gender-neutral name is in order. Is it OK if I call you Fran? I know some quite lovely people named Fran. ---------- I'm rambling at this point. To the hypothetical readers (who are apparently less hypothetical than I thought; I underestimated you, O campaign-finance watchdog sites), I'd like again to extend my greetings. I'm hoping I can manage to keep this at a level above just "crappy blog in PDF form", but since I'm fairly certain this hasn't been done before, feedback is welcome. ...not sure /where/ it's welcome yet, but I'll work on that. Until then, Fran, thank you for your service, and readers, thanks for caring :) Respectfully, Danny Ben-David President/Treasurer/Grand Poobah, Why Not ZoidPAC? P.S. Thanks to CNN Money and a few other sites for the publicity this past week. It's remarkably weird to see the word "ZoidPAC" written up in such places, but I suppose that's no one's fault but my own.