Remove do not call list exemption for political campaigns
They clutter the scenery with their signs, stuff our mailboxes with their brochures, bombard the airways with their ads and to add insult to injury they call us all day long.
I’m speaking, of course, of political campaigns. Today is voting day for the Virginia gubernatorial election and for weeks I have had phone calls for candidates of all stripes. I even had a canned call from Sarah Palin….like she would influence my vote.
Why have we not raised hell that politicians exempted themselves from the do not call list? Even though I don’t like getting calls from charitable organizations, I can understand their exemption as being for the good of the country. But, political campaign calls aren’t as far as I can tell for the good of anyone but the politicians.
Enough already! Remove the exemption for political campaigns and let us have some peace. And while we’re at it, couldn’t we limit the length of campaigns? Isn’t a month more than enough of this incessant yapping?
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November 3rd, 2009 at 5:00 pm
I got my first telemarket call in years the other day. When I answered, some guy was yelling “quick! write this number down” so I did. Turned in that number and the one he called from.’
Eliminating that exemption would eliminate the stupid robocalls. I am for it.
Sage Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:07 pm
LOL….that was weird.
I’m so sick of getting these calls. I don’t like the ones from charitable organizations either, especially when they don’t take no for an answer and I end up hanging up on them.
Wizcon Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:10 pm
@Sage, Tell them you are on welfare. Ask them for a job.
Worked for me before the donot call list.
Sage Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Good idea. I’ve told some of them I’m unemployed (which is true) and they just ask if I could donate a lesser amount.
timesr Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
@Sage,
Military recruiters are also exempt from the do not call list. A friend with a teenage son was getting calls as early as seven in the morning and as late as eleven at night. She asked them not to call and was told they weren’t calling her, they were calling her son. She told them the phone was hers, not her son’s.
Her son had already told them he wasn’t interested.
Sage Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
My sister got some calls for her son from military recruiters. She informed them in no uncertain terms to not call again as her son wasn’t cannon fodder. It really pissed her off that they called him when he was just 16 years old.