In case you want to see what <em>real </em>tip jar promotion* looks like…

…look no further than Skye’s comment on my last Pink Slip Auction post:

If I win the bid, I will model this pink slip.

I’m sure she’d also accept the slip itself as a gift, in case any of you need more incentive to go and bid!

Previously:

• Pink Slip update: only 5 bidding days to go!

• Everyone go bid on this pink slip, just for the sheer* mockery of it all

UPDATE – I’m a little dismayed at my failure to generate more enthusiasm for this story. It’s got everything! Irony, public relations ju-jitsu, the potential spinning of thuggish liberal straw into conservative gold! Turning liberal harassment tactics against them! And:

Gail!

Maybe people are linking direct to the eBay page. If so, thanks! And thanks to The Bobatollah for linking yesterday, and to Bill Jacobson, whose Instalanche has Instaseconded a good deal of traffic hereward and, hopefully, thereward.

For any and all others reading who could link, or Facebook, or tweet, or whatever, a recap:

• Young liberal punk throws pink slip at conservative GOPer Robin Vos, one of the legislators most responsible for advancing Governor Walker’s budget reforms;

• In a quick fit of brilliance, Vos immediately auctions the slip to a GOP audience, thus raising a hundred bucks for local Republicans;

• The same young liberal punk again makes news by pouring beer over Vos’ head;

• The buyer then puts the slip on eBay, promising to send the proceeds to Vos and Walker.

How wonderful would it be if this young liberal punk’s attempts at protest turned into a windfall – however small, relatively speaking – for the very conservatives he was protesting against?

*Lord, I hope Stacy McCain isn’t reading this.