Just like Adrastos, I hate pre-recorded campaign phone messages whether in person or on voicemail. This morning I sent out a message to the NOLA Bloggers listserv: “Laurie White has my vote. So why did her campaign have to mess it up by calling my office twice and leaving a pre-recorded message on my work voicemail once? Jindal’s campaign has done this once before. No one else whom I spoke with at work has received such calls or messages. A number of folks in this city have my cellphone number but no political phone calls on that phone, thank goodness. Why my office phone number and how did they get a hold of it? For the record, it’s very irritating.”
A few minutes ago, I updated the listserv with this: “Just got pre-recorded message #4 in one day from Laurie White. And #1 from some Republican running in St. Tammany parish. Is there some way to get my office phone number taken off White’s phone bank database? One more such call and I’m not voting for her.”
Hear that, Laurie White supporters whom I know cruise this blog? Please let your friend and her campaign know to cool it.
Edit: Thanks to Lisa for informing us of the National Political Do Not Contact Registry, a program of Citizens for Civil Discourse. For each signup, one of your phone numbers will be liberated. So, I registered myself twice, once for the cell phone and another time for the office line. Hope this works as we go into a year of loud and intrusive political hawking.
Ohhh, Lordy. I don’t even want to go NEAR my voice mail, now. Thank goodness for caller ID – Dan can pick up and hang up a split second later. Helps to have a man around the house, since I’m such a girly girl.
She has to be polite to the recorded messages too.
It’s a girl thing i guess.
Back in the days of the home phone, I’d either politely listen to telemarketers and then tell them we didn’t want any or get really mad and hang up on some poor schmuck doing his/her job. Some of those calls have started to show up on the cell – D tells me to swear at them in Tamil and hang up.
Since when is there a listserv?
J, check your email.