Extreme Rudeness
When I was in high school (here we go, another story from “the way things were”) we each had to volunteer for a local political campaign. We could pick any candidate we wanted to, and most of us worked for the candidates who were running for a seat in the state senate. We called people leading up to the election just simply as a courtesy call reminding them to go to the polls and vote. State senate is just something that is not paid as much heed as races for US Senators.
I really don’t mind if a person calls me to remind me to vote. What I do mind is all of the canned, prerecorded political messages that come down the pipe. I counted ten yesterday from various races telling me why I should or shouldn’t vote for judges and representatives. Sometimes, the message talked about several candidates in one message. Most prerecorded messages hang up if they get your answering machine or voicemail, but these just clogged up the machine to the point that it runneth over. No one else could possibly leave a message. What if there was a real emergency and someone was trying to get through?
Political messages are exempt from the “Do Not Call” list. Privacy Council is lauchng a petition against “Robocalling.” In otherwords, the political exemption had neighbor to neighbor interaction in mind, not armies of automatic dialers and recordings. Add your name to the petition if you are interested. Privacy Council also offers to take your name and number off major mailing lists for a $9.00 donation.
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