Dear Candidates for Mayor of San Francisco:
You suck. That's right, you suck.
Why do you suck? You call my house to bother me to ask for their votes or do some touch tone phone survey to ask who I would vote for mayor.
Getting calls from your volunteer scumbags telling me who to vote for is just annoying, and I know that you are robocalling me because if I answer my phone and say "hello" and hear silence for about two or three seconds means I'm about to be bothered by another jackass.
To give you a good example, here's the last phone call I got at 8:45PM (yeah, 8:45PM) last night:
I'm quietly reading a book in bed and I get a phone call from some volunteer for David Chiu for Mayor. I quickly interrupt the jackass who disrupted my peaceful time by saying: "Now that you called, I just changed my mind, I won't vote for him." I hung up my phone without letting the guy get one word after that.Here's a fact, it's NOT FUN to call me. Anyone who dares to ask me to vote for someone or something will get a rude reaction. Another time when someone called me, I said, "is that you Jesus?" then hung up. It's worse if you call me after 8PM because I'm busy enjoying watching a good TV show, writing my blog, or just reading a good book.
I've been also getting robocalls asking me to use my touch tone phone to pick who I would vote for mayor. They gave me nine options (press 1 through 9), instead, I picked option zero: "Get the fuck off my phone."
Here's other annoyances I hate about election time:
- You folks like mailing junk to my house on who I should vote for? Here's what I do: It goes straight into the recycling bin. Oh, Alioto wants to be mayor? Cram it; into the blue bin you go. Stop wasting trees.
- Mayoral candidate cronies (possibly paid ones) who abuse twitter by retweeting every single tweet from the candidate's account. The worst offender: Phil Ting's and his ResetSF (Reset San Francisco) account. Here's one of their "political consultants" and another one. Makes using Hootsuite and other third party programs to keep tabs on hashtags like #muni a nightmare.
- And while I'm on the topic of Reset San Francisco, how many of you actually knows that Reset San Francisco is actually a website for Phil Ting to be Mayor? It's not as obvious as other candidate's websites; ResetSF's website mentions it in very little print on the bottom of the site. If it wasn't a political candidate's website, it would win awards for being a pretty good blog, but because it's a candidate's website, it's just using his cronies to write twisted articles, like this one full of incorrect facts about Clipper. Even I put out a tweet asking people if they knew if that website is for a candidate and some of the reaction I got back was: "agreed," and "I don't think most know he's even running."
Disrespectfully,
Akit
UPDATE: [Retracted due to error]
2 comments:
According to this PDF that gives step-by-step instructions on how to fill out the voter registration form, the Phone Number field is optional: http://www.sfgov2.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/elections/VoterEducation/HowFillOutVRC.pdf
Had I known that my telephone number would be used for "electioneering or get-out-the-vote purposes," I would have not provided this information--as I have been getting calls from Ed Lee volunteers asking for his vote these past few weeks.
I contacted the SF Dept of Elections to request my email and phone number removed from my voter registration--they replied pretty quickly and confirmed that both had been removed. After that, unsolicited campaign calls and election email spam dropped significantly. Unfortunately, some campaigns still use old lists, so it may take a few election cycles for your phone and email to fall off their radar. Now, if only we could so something about all the wasteful election junk mail flooding our mailboxes...
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