I was recently chatting with a friend who is a Washington Congressional Staffer and he mentioned that the Political Do Not Call Registry was created to put an end to the annoying political phone calls that most people hate.
Every choice of boots is painfully exposed to the political solicitation of messages carried by telephones from the hook in homes.
With the presidential election this November, you can immediately choose the party’s national candidates and many people will forever find Alexander Graham Bell’s wildest machine.
I will kill you in the hunt;
Former ambassador John Kerry has led a political campaign to negative campaigns because of unwanted solicitation calls for candidates. namely: Shaun Dakin “National Political Do not Call Registry.”
It’s the law behind the “Federal Do Not Register” that stops telemarketers dead in their tracks.
If you are interested in stopping those annoying political calls that always come to dinner, go to www.stoppoliticalcalls.org and get the facts directly from them.
Basically what you get is you can sign up for one phone number for free, but for $1.24 you can add multiple phone numbers plus email addresses, and “snail mail” your home. Such calls and these other ways of reaching you will hit a stone wall.
If you happen to be a political junky and want to get in touch with a certain candidate, that’s possible.
“But wait there more…” she said in a voice that sounded like a pitch for some TV commercial. The phone is one weapon they use against you. Your regular mail delivery will be more important than going to the polls. Ditto a political address, and television and radio will be full of political commercials.
You can ignore campaign ads in newspapers by choosing not to read them and that’s easier than turning off the television or radio, leaving the phone off the hook and deleting spam emails.
Now this is exactly what I feel is being washed away to make this wonderful idea work;
Mr. Dakin’s National Political Do Not Call Registry will sell lists of all subscribers to various campaigns with the caveat that the campaigns promise not to contact people on the list.
First, why would any candidate pay money to buy the numbers of those who don’t want to hear from them? If they buy a list, they are supposed to keep their promise not to call you. If they don’t buy the album, they don’t have credit and it’s business as usual.
Second, the federal Do Not Register has teeth in it. Telemarketers who violate names on that list are subject to financial penalties. Unless violators of Mr. Dakin’s National Political Do Not Call Registry come with similar penalties it may have little, if any, value. Without a zinger to whack political campaigns, why should any of them care?
Then political ‘dirty tricks’ are sometimes done in states or states that can fly in the election. The idea is to cause voters to become so frustrated with a candidate that they vote for his opponent. It’s easy if you register a list. Just for your opponent!
A National Political Do Not Register is useful. Does it work in practice?
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- Copyright (2008) By Timothy B. Benford
