Thinkprogress:
Monday night, CBS Evening News aired a report revealing that 60,000 AARP members have canceled their memberships since July 1. Many of these individuals are switching over to the American Seniors Association (ASA), which bills itself as the conservative alternative to AARP. From the CBS report:
Last week alone, they [ASA] added more than 5,000 new members. Our camera was there Friday when the mail came. … Letters were filled with cut-up AARP cards.
Wow. So many seniors who are willing to voluntarily tear up their AARP cards and join this conservative organization must really show how upset people are at AARP and its support for health care reform, right? Well, not really.
What CBS didn’t report is that ASA is currently offering a promotion to get AARP members to switch their allegiance. As Dissenting Justice reports, if seniors send in their torn AARP membership cards, they receive a two-year ASA membership for the price of one year.
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