According to [link|http://www.latimes.com/business/la-082301micro.story|the LA Times].

Sleeze at it's classic best - get this...

ATL Executive Director Jim Prendergast initially said those who agreed the prosecution was misguided merely were given suggestions about what to use in drafting their own letters.

"We gave them a few bullet points, but that's about the extent of it," he said.

Asked why some phrases were identical, Prendergast then conceded the letters were written by his operation. "We'd write the letter and then send it to them,"

then...

Utah officials found that two prefab letters from Citizens Against Government Waste bore the typed names of dead people. Those names had been crossed out by family members who signed for them. And another letter came from "Tuscon, Utah," a city that doesn't exist.

Pretty good, eh?

A monopoly using old, cliched political tricks. That's MS innovation for you!