political phone calls

There are too damned many of these calls...

I am on a "Do not call" list, so I don't get too many of these calls. With the few that I get, I use the call as an opportunity to vent my spleen. I was particularly pissed at someone who called me at 10 pm, just as the denouement in a movie that I was watching was fast approaching. I think that I was quite clear as to my emotional state at the time!

I had a neat message of the kill-a-tree snail mail variety. Said the Republican opposing our governer wants to legalize drugs. Guess what state, Dyslexia.

Phoenix--

Do Not Call doesn't apply to political calls.

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I've hung up on Hillary Clinton (recording) and the Governor of PA (recording) and the friends and enemies of Rick Santorum (recording) and the friends and enemies of the candidates for the PA lower chamber.

How dare either party think that my vote can be influenced by a recorded message.

I hang up on all recorded messages as quickly as I can.

I'm thinking of starting a reverse psychology pre-recorded phone call. Phone calls on behalf of the opponent which are so obnoxious that it drives the caller away from him.

"Hello, I'm calling on behalf of Joe Lieberman. What color underwear are you wearing?"

We're in the middle of a round of municipal elections here.

Setanta asked me earlier this evening what it meant when the phone was flashing in its charging cradle. I told him it meant a call was coming in. mmmmm, why isn't it ringing? I turned the ringer off.

After one evening of 15 political and carpet calls/msgs I was done. I may turn the ringer back on in a coupla weeks and see how things go.

Makes you wonder just who it is that is writing the laws!

When is Election Day in Canada?

Did not know that it did not apply to political calls. I knew that it also didn't apply to charitable calls.

In general, just from hearing about what the rest of you have experienced, I don't really get that many calls. I wonder whether the politicians know that we have already voted in early elections?

I am not being paranoid. We had this experience. My husband and I had a couple of Toyotas. We would regularly get mail from Toyota making offers, advertising sales, etc. We then bought a couple of cars from Honda.

From that day forward, we did not get one piece of mail from Toyota. Now how the hell did they know that we sold our Toyotas?

Phoenix--

You stopped showing up at the Toyota dealer for your regular checkups.