Why Is Peter Ueberroth Spamming Voters?
from the what-is-he-thinking? dept
No link on this one, as it appears the press hasn't picked up on the story yet, but this ridiculous California recall election has led to political spamming. On Friday I received a spam from the campaign of Peter Ueberroth. I was not amused - nor was I influenced to vote for Mr. Ueberroth. I was, however, influenced not to vote for anyone who thinks that spamming is an effective way to communicate with the voting public. I most certainly did not sign up for any such list, and since I've heard from a number of others who also received the spam, it seems that the Ueberroth campaign wasn't particularly selective in figuring out who to spam. Are politicians really this clueless? Anyway, in trying to figure out who to complain to (other than to Verio - where the spam came from, and whose Terms of Service this clearly violates) I discovered that the Ueberroth website doesn't actually include any email addresses - suggesting that no one involved with the campaign (gasp!) wants to get spammed. Nice to see that they don't extend the same courtesy to the rest of us.
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Ridiculous?
While I agree that having 200 candidates is ridiculous, I have a hard time believing that the recall process itself is. After all, despite what the media and the political pundits say, the recall process is written into the state constitution, and it is entirely legal to recall any representative who fails to provide what the voters want, (and not what special interests want.)
There is a large percentage of Californians who believe that our current governor has lied, cheated, and stolen his way into the office, and many who voted for Mr. Davis last year felt that Mr. Davis put us where we are now, and didn't tell us anything about it until after he was elected.
Had he been up front about things, and had he offered plans to fix the problem, he may not have been elected (I still would have voted for him,) but at least we wouldn't have felt cheated like we did now.
Of course, had Mr. Davis taken the entire sum Oracle had given him as a bribe for buying 3 times the number of Oracle licenses we needed, then we probably wouldn't have been here now, would we?
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Ueberroth Spam?
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Ueberroth Spam
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Ueberroth spam
Low low low!
His campaign organizers should know better in this timeframe where people are up outraged by spam. If they are not smart enough to realize that, then they are not smart enough to run the state IMO.
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Read comments on the first post about it.
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Bob Graham might have tried it too
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Not a joe job
The spam is quite heavily linked back into his official website. It would have been hard for him to claim that it was somebody else.
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More from Graham
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