Re: Political ads with phone numbers

[Chuckigo@att.net]

regarding home phone intrusions, Counselor Ross wrote:
>>But those things can backfire.  A candidate for Norfolk County Register of 
Probate called me on Yom Kippur with a recorded call.  It offended me so much 
that I voted for his opponent.<<

had a similar instance with one of our Senatorial candidates up here in Maine, 
only the pre-recorded call came a few minutes before 9pm.  i called the 
candidate's office back immediately and told them they'd lose my vote if the 
calls come after 8pm any more.  a whole lot of good can be undone by not 
thinking through entirely the strategy.  i'm sure they guessed they'd be all 
right in most cases, but in a close race, one can't afford to let the 
electronic medium undo the human good that might have been done to that point.

- -Chuck Igo
> On 3 Nov 2002 at 21:19, Roger Kirk wrote:
> 
> > If I had a dime for every time George Dubya Bush, his Mother Barbara and
> > Jeanne Shaheen have called my home phone number since last Wednesday, I
> > could buy an election. <g>
> 
> I got one from Bill Clinton on behalf of Shannon O'Brien.
> 
> But those things can backfire.  A candidate for Norfolk County Register of 
> Probate called me 
> on Yom Kippur with a recorded call.  It offended me so much that I voted for his 
> opponent.  
> He won the primary anyway, but when I saw him at the Brookline Democratic Town 
> Committee's party, I told him how I felt.  He was apologetic and said that the 
> company in 
> California that does those calls was specifically instructed not to call 
> Brookline, Sharon, and 
> a couple of other heavily Jewish areas in the county, but they did anyway.  His 
> vote in 
> Brookline was considerably lower than the rest of the county, and he assumed 
> that was the 
> reason.  
> 
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