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Sleazy telemarketers capitalize on public sympathy for fallen police

I agree with Charley Wilkison on this one:Nonprofit groups with ties to law enforcement have your number and they're dialing it this Christmas.A review by The Dallas Morning News found that several charities have spent up to 89 percent of the money they collect on telemarketers, cutting deeply into what they can spend on programs.Some say the figures show that a Texas law regulating telephone solicitation by law-enforcement-related groups isn't working."When your spending is upside down like that, you would have to ask yourself as a consumer, 'Are they a telemarketing organization or are they legitimately representing the concerns of law-enforcement officers?' " said Charley Wilkison, spokesman for the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on December 24, 2009 (boomark / email).