I regret to say that I introduced some of you to Eugene Delgaudio, an extraordinarily annoying spammer whose gimmick is calling himself the “Public Advocate of the United States”, writing these histrionic emails to people declaring the imminent take-over of the country by the radical homosexual lobby. All he does is scream about fear and weakness and homosexuals coming to get you, and how he needs your money to protect us all…but of course, he does nothing with your money except use it to beg for more money on the internet.
And pay himself a nice salary. He has submitted an IRS 990 form, so his budget and expenditures can actually be examined, and yeah, he’s a fraud. He pays himself about $170,000 a year, and the bulk of the rest of it goes to postage and printing for mailing out his pleas for cash.
Somebody ought to investigate him. It’s pure fear-mongering and scammery.
On the positive side, he’s just been added to Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of anti-gay hate groups. They’re listed by state and he’s at the bottom of the list because he’s based in Virginia.
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/ideology/anti-gay/active_hate_groups
I wondered how I got on his list. It is very difficult to get oneself off it. It took several attempts to be rid of him. I might add that he got a very rude earful from me each time he sent one of his vile, homophobic emails.
I’m still on, despite me telling him the .ca in my email address stands for Canada, not California. Perhaps he doesn’t read Canadian, or I didnt use enough adjectives and adverbs in my last email.
On the plus side, if idiot homophobes send their money to him, it’ll just get used for his salary and not for anything more destructive like lobbying.
Dammit, pwillow1! You beat me to that.
I think the reason so many of us got on DelGaudio’s spam list was because there was a survey on his website which PZ invited us to Pharyngulate. And it required an email address to participate in the survey and hello, everybody started getting mail from DelGaudio.
This is why I have many, many Gmail addresses, some of which are for just this purpose. My inbox filled up with DelGaudio’s crap. Every so often I pop over and shovel it out.
A number of LGBT blogs regularly post the latest e-mails from this fraud because he treatsb trem all as if they are supporters.
Everyone that I have seen is a plead for money. The money is needed to help him defend marriage.
I’ve unsubscribed twice now.. it’s been awhile since I’ve gotten anything, but I think I also marked his stuff as spam. I also tried talking to the company that he uses to send out mass emails.. that didn’t get very far though. As a member of the glbt community, it’s incredibly offensive to get that in my inbox. gross gross gross.
I think this is awesome. We need more people doing this to strip the bigots of money they would instead use to do some real damage!
You beat me to it, beergoggles.
You people are so negative. I love being on his mailing list. Those mails are hilarious. One time there were twelve separate links to his donation page in the same email. It’s quite clear where his priorities lies.
I’ve also noticed that I’ve gotten added to several other mailing lists, among others one from Ron Paul. It’s interesting how clear his message gets when he thinks he’s speaking to his supporters. I got several urging me to sign a petition against Roe v Wade, but mostly he’s complaining about the other Republican candidates and, of course, begging for money.
I have them all filed under “Crackpot”.
I’ve sent cease and desist emails to his “day job” – he’s on the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors and the emails dried up instantly. I also copied the entire board the second time! Here are the addresses: eugene.delgaudio@loudoun.gov
bos@loudoun.gov
Maybe his fellow local pols don’t appreciate being bombarded with complaints and copies of ol’ Del’s disgusting tirades.
The editors of the local rag seem to be big fans of his, though. I have friends in the neighborhood and they tell me the Eds just don’t publish any critiques of this pathetic man or his hate group. More’s the pity – I don’t believe the outer Beltway ‘burbanites appreciate this petty provincial bigotry.
Good old American free enterprise. Stupid bigots send him their money, he spends it on goods and services and he doesn’t actually harm any homosexuals in the process. If that’s true, then he’s actually doing a good thing for the economy. His vic… I mean contributors could be sending that cash to real bad actors.
What does it take to be a “Radical” Homosexual anyway?
Is their a field guide available to help me identify them?
Agree with Doubting Thomas. This guy is absorbing moneys that would otherwise be used by the non-fraudulent (more active) homophobes.
If I were less morally and ethically motivated, I could be living high on the hog by emulating this unprincipled bigot. For all we know, his whole thing might be an act just to rake off all those dollars from the suckers. I make not a single cent on my own blog and have no clue how many followers I might have; probably not that many.
If one were to email Delgaudio some especially raunchy gay porn in response to his unwanted missives, would that convince him to drop one from his list, or would that encourage him to keep spamming one in hopes of getting even more material for his spank bank?
While he may take some money out of the overall “pot” of bigotry money and he may be fraudulently over pay himself out of the contributions, he is damaging to the overall atmosphere. He promotes and feeds off of fear and hate and thus keeps it going.
I would not him the time of day if I had 10 watches!
I have not been the winner of any of his e-mails because I just do not register to any dam web site I try to be selective and thus keep my inbox empty of spam.
uncle frogy
what happened to the give ??
uncle frogy
A) when in doubt, give your e-mail address as <anyoldthing>@mailinator.com. It responds to test probes from web forms and will be accepted. Then you’ll never hear from the web site again.
B) Report all mail from him as spam or, better yet, report it as phishing or money scams (RCMP and ?FBI)
c) Reporting him as a spammer should make his e-mail go into your spam folder. If that’s not good enough, add a filter to your e-mail that deletes everything from his domain name.
If only I had a Death Note™…
I’d add him to the list.
I hate people :)
Happy Friday!
I watched the vid with the “million petitions” and had to grimace. Those boxes were empty. (It’s a pet peeve of mine in movies and TV, seeing light things that are supposed to be heavy, so I keep an eye out.) Neither of those folks could have carried four boxes full of paper. (Not that that is any more evidence that he’s really gay.)
I didn’t listen closely, but I never heard anyone say that the alleged petitions had ever been signed.
My e-mail service lets me create custom throwaway addresses, which I use for signing up for websites and mailing lists like the one ran by Eugene “pray about it carefully and give what you can right now” Delgaudio. It’s terrific because I can ‘expire’ addresses that have been sold to spammers, and because it lets me see how e-mail addresses I give out get shared around.
Thus far the e-mail address I used exclusively to sign up for “Public Advocate of The United States” or whatever the hell he’s calling it has also received frequent fund raising e-mails by the campaigns of Ron Paul, Rand Paul, and Michelle Bachmann.
Markita Lynda, thanks for the Mailinator info.
I used it to register here, after several months of not feeling up to the effort of finding the info for my garbage e-mail account in my malfunctioning old computer.
I do appreciate it.
I found myself added to some religious mailing list and now I get all sorts of insane shit. Mostly it’s about the threat of Islam (one recent one pretended to be an outreach to Islam but the wording basically showed the email was asking recipients to god bother any muslims in their vicinity). But invariably everyone single one is asking for money. I just flag it as spam in Gmail. It would give me satisfaction to know that if they’re sending this shit out to enough people who flag it as spam that it will go straight in the trash.
As an aside Gmail has excellent anti-spam functionality. I also have a Yahoo account and by comparison it’s pretty atrocious and misses obvious spam like nigerian stuff.
What does it take to be a “Radical” Homosexual anyway?
Wandering around with an unpaired electron.
I have suggested to him that he should come out of the closet, because he’d feel better for it. My apologies to the gay community in case the creep does.
Thanks to that survey we Pharyngulated some time back, I get his lunacy in my throwaway email inbox all the time. My favorite email thus far has been this:
One stormy night I drove to a mailshop hidden deep in a nearly deserted stand of warehouses. I’d heard something was up and wanted to see for myself. As I rounded the final turn my eyes nearly popped. Tractor-trailers pulled up to loading docks, cars and vans everywhere and long-haired, earring-pierced men scurrying around running forklifts, inserters and huge printing presses. Trembling with worry I went inside. It was worse than I ever imagined. Row after row of boxes bulging with pro-homosexual petitions lined the walls, stacked to the ceiling. My mind reeled as I realized hundreds, maybe thousands, more boxes were already loaded on the tractor-trailers. And still more petitions were flying off the press. Suddenly a dark-haired man screeched, “Delgaudio what are you doing here?” Dozens of men began moving toward me. I’d been recognized. As I retreated to my car, the man chortled, “This time Delgaudio we can’t lose.” Driving away, my eyes filled with tears as I realized he might be right. This time the Radical Homosexuals could win.
And here I thought it was tough to make a decent living writing bad fiction. Anyone that donates to Delgaudio’s scam is an idiot who deserves to lose their money.
Oops, that email was already quoted in the link PZ provided. Apologies for the redundant redundancy.
[PSA]
Internet prophylaxis: it helps.
(Sure, you’re paranoid — but are you paranoid enough?)
Oh, I particularly loved that email, Cosmic Snark, and I don’t mind reading it again. It sounds like something that one might have originally written to as a sexual fantasy. What might have happened if Eugene hadn’t been spotted by this huge group of radical homosexuals? He could have hidden behind those large boxes of petitions which stretched to the ceiling and watched the shenanigans once those earringed men took a break from their forklifts.
Maybe the next time I get an email from Eugene, I’ll reply and ask him if he has any more “narratives” for me and offer to send him some of mine.
This guy absolutely needs to be stopped. He’s a threat to our way of life.
Send me money so that I can keep up the fight.
what Diane @ #4 said.
As long as this guy is accumulating cash for himself and not using it to lobby or anything, I say more power to him!
Don’t you know it’s morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money? {grin}
Every time I read about how the homosexuals are coming for you, it reminds me of a story a friend of mine told me about a talk she had with her mother right before starting college. Her mother sat her down and warned her in dire tones about the roving bands of lesbians that sweep through university campuses, seducing young women and bringing them into their sticky, sweaty, sexual fold. My friend told me that while outwardly she expressed the appropriate level of shock and horror, inwardly she was thinking, “Gosh, I hope so!”
Loudon County, VA, is not a sinkhole of ignorance, so I don’t understand why this guy is still in office. I wrote to Delguadio’s supervisor on the Sterling District Board of Supervisors and complained about his obvious email harvesting and the content of his spam, which indicates he is mentally ill.
Please don’t think that I’m beaing snarky when I ask – investigate him for what?
What he’s doing is replusive, unethical, and dishonest – but is any of it illegal? There are circumstances in which public lying and/or abject begging are against the law, but I have no idea if this is such a case.
Can someone clue in the clueless here about this? Or is this one of those “You could make a case based on (X), but it’s 6-to-7 and pick ’em in terms of making anything stick” situations?
That story quoted @28 is hilarious. It perfectly follows that one little trope from almost every zombie movie: an outsider is observing the horde which seems to be a good opportunity to sneak by them, but just when he thought he was safe, he gets noticed! The others all begin to lurch toward the protagonist, hungry for his man-meat.
In fact, I can’t help but think that the zombie thing was something he did deliberately when he made that story up.
Well he is asking for money for people to allow him to lobby against what he sees as a dangerous progressive agenda in the US. However it seems from his accounts he is not actually doing any lobbying. He may well be obtaining money by lying about the purposes for which it will be used. If so, that would be fraud.
@Matt Penfold
#38
But isn’t that good for progressives? In that this guy is draining resources that would otherwise be used to ACTUALLY fight progressive “agenda” (or the homosexual “agenda”, or the femi-nazi “agenda”).
Interesting.
Would ‘sending repeated emails’ be close enough to ‘lobbying’ lawmakers to avoid fraud, I wonder?
Because I strongly suspect at least a few lawmakers and staffers would be included in this sort of an email campaign.
Joe.My.God. just received this e-mail from the hateful little spam machine.
Borked but at least everything is separated.
Snow surfing in the 1990s.
Cosmic Snark: I had just hurt myself laughing at Uncle Glenny’s comment, and now I read (for the first time) that missive Delgaudio sent you… OMFG.
I bet it was dark, too!
“That’s where the dude from Casual Encounters M4M told me to meet him.”
All of whom had to be gay. No straight man ever grows his hair long or gets an earring.
Did you have to take a break while writing this, Gene?
“Screeched.”
No, that was the plot of the movie you downloaded the other night, remember?
Thomas @ 14
“What does it take to be a “Radical” Homosexual anyway?”
Stridency, shrillness, and deep rifts.
That story about the hidden mail shop was gay from the very start. In the 1960s or so, the clandestine cruising ground on Manhattan was the warehouse district at night. “The trucks”, I think it was called.
Delguadio describes it perfectly, and is the right age to have been there.
I disagree with those who say that his funneling money away from the gay-bashers is a good thing–not that I mind them losing money. Delguadio is raising that money by spreading hate and disinformation, and using that much of that money to spread more hate and lies. The management fee/salary that he may be spending on blowup boys doesn’t make all the money evaporate. He should be shut down.
Ms. Daisy Cutter @44
Astute and succinct analysis as always :)