Re: Political ads with phone numbers

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyross.com>]

On 4 Nov 2002 at 12:34, Chuckigo@att.net wrote:

> 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.

And sometimes the opposition can make calls like that as a "dirty trick." I remember reading 
once that, many years ago, Leverett Saltenstall was the Republican candidate for Lieutenant 
Governor, and his opponent had sound trucks blaring out for Saltenstall in the Back Bay, 
then a Republican stronghold, very early on a Sunday morning.  Saltenstall lost that one (In 
those days, the governor and lieutenant governor ran separately, so you could have a 
governor of one party and a lieutenant governor of the other.).

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