Friday, October 8, 2010

Open letter to all the candidates:

Can I please have your personal phone number, and that of all the people who make the unsolicited telephone calls for you? I'd like to be able to call you, and them, at any time of the day or evening, no matter what you are doing: working, eating, trying to relax; no matter what your situation is at the time: celebrating a victory, mourning a loss, greeting friends or family not seen in a long time, trying to work out a serious problem with work or personal life, meeting a work deadline - you fill in the blanks. I find it damn annoying and would say that I won't vote for any candidate who disrupts my life for their personal gain, except that you all seem to think it is perfectly all right to do so. I thought there were laws to prevent this - oh, wait, there are, except that the clever politicians gave themselves an out so that they could do it.
Well, I don't like it, and I would like you to stop bothering me! I would especially like you to stop having recordings do your dirty work - if you and your supporters insist on being a pain in the butt to the general public, at least have the courage to do it in person, so that you can reap the consequences of someone like myself who is liable to tell you where to take your phone call campaign. It's intrusive, and having robotic voices do it for you is cowardly. To me, the political integrity of all of the candidates is already in question for the smarmy, unethical, ridiculous campaign tactics of not saying what you will do for us, only what the other candidates have done wrong, and the phone campaign only adds to my disgust with all.
Please be so good as to take my phone number off your lists. Constantly demanding that I interrupt my life to answer your calls is harming rather than helping the odds that I will vote for you.