From:  Dan Goodman <dsgood@visi.com>
Date:  22 Sep 2004 23:41:50 Hong Kong Time
Newsgroup:  news.alt119.net/mn.general
Subject:  

Re: Calls from political campaigns

NNTP-Posting-Host:  null

"Mousepotatoe"  wrote in
 
> "Bill Seurer"  wrote in message
>> Brian Link wrote:
>> > I just got a call from the campaign of the candidate who I strongly
>> > oppose, ...
>>
>> During the last presidential election one party kept calling me
>> despite my asking them to not call me back again.  In fact, their
>> persistent calls helped me to choose the opposing candidate.  If the
>> party won't listen to a voters simple and reasonable request their
>> candidate probably won't either.  Their excuse:  "We're not covered
>> by the do not call list statutes."
 
> Wow that's a smart way to choose a candidate.

If the candidate has idiots running his campaign, then if elected he's 
likely to appoint idiots to government jobs.

> Some low level employee or volunteer cant  remove someone from the
> dialing list.

But can PASS THE REQUEST ON TO THE NEXT LEVEL UP, or TRANSFER THE CALL TO 
SOMEONE WHO CAN MAKE THAT DECISION.

Intelligently-run campaigns don't do the equivalent of trying to sell 
pork to Jewish vegetarians.

> Never mind the issues! You sure showed them!
 
If I agreed with the candidate's positions on the issues, I would vote 
against him -- on the grounds that having an incompetent trying to do the 
right things could easily be worse than having someone in office trying 
to do the wrong things.


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