Cards Show Fumo With American Flag

POSTED: 10:43 am EDT July 23, 2004

State Sen. Vincent Fumo is sending more than 40,000 voters free five-minute prepaid phone cards after he was given a resounding victory by primary election.

The Philadelphia Democrat’s office has been sending out the cards, with a picture of Fumo and a rippling American flag, and thank-you letters this week. The mailing cost the senator’s campaign fund more than $30,000.

Fumo wouldn’t comment on the cards. Howard Cain, the political consultant who came up with the idea, says Fumo wanted to thank the voters.

Even the man Fumo beat in the primary, James Tayoun Jr., says he hopes he gets one of the cards.