Posted by
NOTLEGALROADKILLYET on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 10:16:07 PM
For the life of me, I can't imagine why people would try to avoid talking to someone like me on the phone. I am providing a valuable service, an opportunity to go around the liberal Denver newspapers, and around the the 527 ads that are only loosely based on the truth, and perhaps not that.
I find that at least half of the folks who will talk to me and initially tell me they won't vote for my candidate totally misunderstand his position on their hot button issue. Most recently, someone had bought into clear peak's assertion that Bob had voted for a pay raise for himself, when the raise wouldn't take effect until 2010*, and also that he had voted against a "small bonus" for soldiers that would have stripped funds from Iraq operations. That bill was so defective that even Murtha, the most vocal Democratic war opponent voted against it.
Even so, if you are determined to walk into the voting booth as ignorant as a stone because you don't want to trouble yourself to risk learning the truth about the issues, then here is how to do it:
Even though the phone laws allow politicians to ignore no-call lists, many campaigns, including mine, won't intentionally call around a no-call message. It costs you a little money, but go to the phone company and have their service installed.
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*Since the most recent Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits Congress from raising its own pay before an intervening election, it would have been Unconstitutional for Beauprez to do what Clear Peak accused him of doing. Doubtless some attorney reviewed and approved a commercial that was intended to mislead voters and misdirect votes. As far as I am concerned, that is highly unethical behavior, which should earn disbarment. Of course, the state supreme court disagrees. Maybe we can change that.