Conventions used below:

Text1           -- text at left margin is announcer talking to audience.
  Ann:  text2   -- text of announcer speaking to guest (SR or Sen)
  SR:   text3   -- Scott Richter
  Sen:  text4   -- Senator Joan Fitzgerald
...             -- a pause
....            -- speaker interrupted.
[n]             -- see appropriate footnote.


The actual transcript (may contain typos and/or transcription errors
due to difficulty in making out the exact words through the audience
laughter.  Only when the laughter is louder than normal is it noted.
Some words ("clitorious") are misspelled as spoken by the participants
and have "[sic]" added by me:



The economy has yet to rebound and no new jobs are being created but
Coloradan Scott Richter has managed to find work in one of the only growth
industries.

  SR:  I'm a high volume email deployer.
  Ann: High volume email deployer?
  SR:  What we do is not spamming.  It's high deployment email sending.
       We send out several hundred emails a day.

It's a public service Richter and other high-volume emailers provide to
customers who depend on receiving emails to learn about valuable products
like viagagra [sic] and information about grandma's pension for youngsters.

  SR:  People look forward to receiving mail.  They call us, email us, "We
       didn't get our offer today.  What do we miss?" Calm down, it's coming.
       People enjoy getting emails on our Viagel. People enjoy getting email
       about our Energiser.
  Ann: What is Viagel?
  SR:  It's a ... ahh ... female clitorious [sic] stimulation cream.
  Ann: Oh[1]. And do you put this right on the clitorious [sic]?
  SR:  Ahhh...  [laughter from audience makes it hard to hear the
       following] I didn't actually use it.

But the government is trying to prevent millions of clitoriouses [sic]
local here from being stimulated. Colorado State Senator Joan Fitzgerald
is trying to pass legislation that would make sending this leading email
illegal.

  Sen: This is about consumer protections and privacy protections.
       Spam is intrusive ....
  Ann: Ahh-ah-ah-ah, high volume email.
  Sen: Well, it's a good euphemism.  It's a great spin. They're still
       ... spammers.
  Ann: This is pork-barrel politics at its worst.
  Sen: How so?
  Ann: It's ... so so.
  Sen: You have no idea what pork-barrel politics are, do you?
  Ann: Do you?
  Sen: Pork-barrel politics usually puts money into the system ....
  Ann: Oh, is that what they taught you in lady senator school?

Just because the message may crash your computer and can be used to steal
personal information that's no reason for the government to kill the messenger.

  Ann: Why do you think the government doesn't want you to making
       twenty-thousand dollars a day?
  SR:  [Short laugh from S.R.] That's s-s-simple. That's the easiest
       question there is. Because the U.S. Postal Service is saying
       "Hey, we need help. ... We're getting killed here.  This guy
       can send email.  He's not wiping out the rain-forest. What
       are we going to do with these little white trucks? We gotta get
       this guy to either pay thirty-seven cents and buy some stamps
       or we're done."
  Ann: So that's what it's about. Uncle Sam wants a taste of the female
       arousal cream game.
  SR:  Yes, people want the email.  That's what people understand.
  Ann: You're providing a service, like a ... like a garbage man ...
       except ... in reverse.

But the Post Office's insistance on protecting its little white trucks
and destroying the rain forest isn't the only thing
<bgsound Src=" James Bond theme">
Richter needs to worry about.
</bgsound>

  SR:  There's a few out there, anti-spammers who ... yeah ... they don't
       want it.
  Ann: Anti-...high-volume-...email-...deployers
  SR:  "Anti-high"? ... that doesn't make any sense. We're email deployers.
       They , they're not email deployers.
  Ann: No,  They are ANT-eye-high-volume  [SR: "Oh, email deployers."]
       email deployers.
  SR:  Yeah, these anti[2]-anti[3]-high email volume deployers,
       anti-spammers....

They actually attack Richter by flooding his computer servers with email.

<bgsound src="much audience laughter during the following">
  SR:  They use deceptive practices[?][4], invade my privacy, they they
       make up lies, they they say whatever they want to.
  Ann: So they're able to hide anonymously on the Internet and bombard
       you with emails *you* never asked for ... and disrupt your
       business?
  SR:  They operate like terrorist groups.  They're they're hidden.
       They they, you know, don't  identify who they are.  They they,
       you know, like I said, they attack you when  nobody's looking.
</bgsound>

  Ann: Why are you hiding in the shadows attacking them?
  Sen: Oh I am not hiding in the shadows at all.
  Ann: What do you mean?
  Sen: Bringing a bill forward publicly, it gets testimony in committee
       Scott Richter's invited to testify as are all citizens of the State.
  Ann: You are a wild cat!  ... I like that.   Rawwwrrrr!

Scott Richter remains confident the government will not be able to shut
down his business which leaves just one final question.

  Ann: What's your personal email address?
  SR:  It's scottrichter four twenty-two at yahoo dot com.
  Ann: Scottrichterfourtwentytwoyah.... Do you mind if we put
       that up on the screen?
<bgsound src="audience laughter">
  SR:  Well, I'd prefer it if you don't.
  Ann: OK, ... we won't.
</bgsound>

<bgsound scr="intermission music">
Bob Closure[5], We'll be right back.
</bgsound>

Footnotes:
[1] "Oh" -- about half way between "Ah." and "Oh".
[2] Pronounced "ant-ee".
[3] Pronounced "ant-eye".
[4] Sounding a bit like "dee set this practice" but I *think*
    "deceptive practices" was the intended wording.
[5] Or some name that sounded similar.  I couldn't make it out
    through the music.  If someone sends me a correction I would
    be grateful.