Dan's Bake Sale

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Dan's Bake Sale was perhaps the largest grassroots political event ever to occur in the United States.

The initial idea for Dan's Bake Sale was conceived on the Rush Limbaugh talk show in 1993. One caller, "Dan" from Colorado, told Rush Limbaugh that he was photocopying a coworker's subscription to the Limbaugh Letter, Rush's monthly magazine that covered current events. The reason is that Dan's wife was not a fan of the show, and would not allocate the funds needed from the family budget to subscribe to the Letter. Rush informed Dan that he disapproves his photocopying printed material, and then suggested Dan organize a bake sale as a spoof of recent bake sales to raise funds to reduce the national debt. The idea took off with Rush's promotion of the event on his talk show (particularly when Rush said he'd attend); when the event was finally over, over 80,000 people had visited Fort Collins for Dan's Bake Sale.

Dan remains a fan of Rush, and has never told a coworker that he was disenchanted by Limbaugh's reaction to him at the bake sale. In fact, Dan try to make it an annual event, but agreed with Rush that the original just could never again be replicated.

[edit] External link

• Rush Limbaugh's Website Article on the Bake Sale