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You forgot to mention in your [very well put!] reply that true UCE is in fact illegal.
I remember a couple of years ago a local state representative managed to cull the email addresses of the entire faculty/staff body at UI (I know -- I checked the logs!) and sent them all emails from his personal FSR account. I got even madder when my complaints to SpamCop and FSR went unanswered.
So I just didn't vote for him -- even though I was going to originally.
I'm curious -- did you send your response via email or via a postal letter? Either way, I wish you luck. I get just as peeved at this type of spam as you do (it annoys me even more than the "enhancement" emails everyone in the world gets because it was a directed spam and therefore they *bought* my address from somewhere....)
I feel the same way about unsolicited phone messages telling us to save the country by voting for so-and-so. Well, maybe not exactly the same way, because I must admit that SPAM is even dirtier.
Yep! I've got a very recognizable last name, and some members of my family are involved on a state level with politics; I don't wish to influence them in the political sphere at all with what I write here, and therefore I'm withholding my name from this post. :)
And that's a tough choice, deciding which is worst between political SPAM and political telemarketing...
Actually she's the lesser evil...benbenMay 5 2006, 14:12:26 UTC
Sorensen is the woman who stopped the 2004 push for a anti-gay marriage amendment dead. She purposefully stalled it in comittee because she believes the state had much better things to do.
As a republican goes she's much more of the older school sort that keeps out of people's social lives.
Her major opponent is Bill Sali. Sali is the vaguard of the anti-gay marriage ammendment, and caused the entire Democratic party to walk out of the statehouse when he stated that abortions cause breast cancer and intimated that all women who have had breast cancer are filthy abortionists. I can provide links (and I'm only exagerating this much || on Sali).
HOWEVER. Spam sucks, and political spam should not exist at all.
Re: Actually she's the lesser evil...sr_foxleyMay 5 2006, 14:49:28 UTC
Ugh. Yes, I see what you mean. Mostly I guess I wrote my e-mail to them as an effort (albeit one that will be ignored, doubtlessly) to slap them on the wrist and say, "BAD CANDIDATE! You lose votes that way!" In the end I intend to be more responsible with my vote than simply "I hate you so I'm going to vote for someone who has a good chance of replacing you regardless of the issues that actually matter
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Re: Actually she's the lesser evil...benbenMay 5 2006, 15:02:21 UTC
Actually I vote in the Republican primaries all the time. As a social liberal it's the only time my vote has any weight to do damage control. Most of the time the Democrats only have on candidate in the primary and Republicans will get the seat regardless in the real election.
I started doing this when we had Helen Chenowith in office. In one of her last primary elections she was running against a guy whose address was a local mental institution. After one television debate he refused to leave the set, and eventually took all of his clothes off while still on the set.
I got to vote for naked-crazy-man over Helen Chenowith, and I still consider it a vote well spent.
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I remember a couple of years ago a local state representative managed to cull the email addresses of the entire faculty/staff body at UI (I know -- I checked the logs!) and sent them all emails from his personal FSR account. I got even madder when my complaints to SpamCop and FSR went unanswered.
So I just didn't vote for him -- even though I was going to originally.
I'm curious -- did you send your response via email or via a postal letter? Either way, I wish you luck. I get just as peeved at this type of spam as you do (it annoys me even more than the "enhancement" emails everyone in the world gets because it was a directed spam and therefore they *bought* my address from somewhere....)
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Man, why is it so hard to find people in politics who don't suck?
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I feel the same way about unsolicited phone messages telling us to save the country by voting for so-and-so. Well, maybe not exactly the same way, because I must admit that SPAM is even dirtier.
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And that's a tough choice, deciding which is worst between political SPAM and political telemarketing...
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As a republican goes she's much more of the older school sort that keeps out of people's social lives.
Her major opponent is Bill Sali. Sali is the vaguard of the anti-gay marriage ammendment, and caused the entire Democratic party to walk out of the statehouse when he stated that abortions cause breast cancer and intimated that all women who have had breast cancer are filthy abortionists. I can provide links (and I'm only exagerating this much || on Sali).
HOWEVER. Spam sucks, and political spam should not exist at all.
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I started doing this when we had Helen Chenowith in office. In one of her last primary elections she was running against a guy whose address was a local mental institution. After one television debate he refused to leave the set, and eventually took all of his clothes off while still on the set.
I got to vote for naked-crazy-man over Helen Chenowith, and I still consider it a vote well spent.
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