Mountain Sage » political campaigns exemption from the do not call list http://mountainsageblog.com Political News, Opinion and Discussion Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:14:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://mountainsageblog.com http://mountainsageblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/favicon.ico Mountain Sage Remove do not call list exemption for political campaigns http://mountainsageblog.com/2009/11/03/remove-do-not-call-list-exemption-for-political-campaigns/ http://mountainsageblog.com/2009/11/03/remove-do-not-call-list-exemption-for-political-campaigns/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:59:09 +0000 Sage http://mountainsageblog.com/?p=6772 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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