Please don’t make me call you…
I thought I was all done phone banking. But NOOOOOOO….some of you haven’t voted yet. Actually, most of you haven’t voted yet.
So I’ll be trekking down to Measure 26-84 headquarters on Thursday night to call probable supporters who just haven’t gotten their ballots in yet. I hate talking on the phone. I hate bothering people. And even though phone banking rates dead last on any list of ‘how I’d like to spend any of my free time’ (even below emergency dental work, believe it or not), well - you’re making me do it, people.
See, I really believe it’s critical that we provide financial stability for Portland Public Schools for the next five years. And I really really want you to help me by voting yes on 26-84.
But in order to do that, you need to get your ballot in. And then I won’t need to call you!
Win-win all around, no?
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I’m sure you think that you’re doing a public service but all you’re doing is annoying folks. I’ll be taking our ballots in on election day and or the day before and all your call will do is aggravate us and if I was undecided before, possibly bias me against whatever measure or candidate you’re calling on behalf of.
The least you could do is abide by the no call lists even though they don’t apply to political calls. Notice how the legislators exempted themselves when they passed the no-call legislation ;-)
I don’t know what other campaigns are doing, but we’re only calling people we’ve talked to before, who told us they were supporting the measure, but haven’t yet voted.
Honestly, I don’t want to be annoying or aggravating. And - as this and previous posts point out - I’m more than a little conflicted about the whole process. Believe me when I say that I’d LOVE to be working from a list that already had ‘no call people’ excised!
I’m hoping that the fact that I’m a parent volunteer dialing manually (as opposed to an auto-dial or taped recording - HATE those) makes it just a bit more palatable. And I do my very best to be anything but annoying. It’s not a persuasion call, just a reminder call - short and sweet. But how else do you suggest we reach voters who may need a little encouragement to get their ballot in?
Betsy is right — most phone calls go to previously ID’d voters. I’ll add one thing: If you don’t want to get called, tell the caller to add you to their do not call list. Every phone sheet I’ve seen includes a checkbox for that.
The voterfile system that the Dems are using (and probably same for the Rs) is a unified system, and a single ‘do not call’ will cause you to come off the rest of the lists too.
One last thing: If you don’t want calls, don’t put your phone number on your voter registration card (where its optional). I haven’t sent my ballot in, and even though my wife and I are both 4/4 voters, we haven’t gotten a single phone call this season.
At least say and do vote yes on 26-84 and be done with it.
Our schools need funding; and that should trump any miniscule amount of annoyance today.
As opposed to when you’re old and sickly and without Medicare, and some speed and heroin-addled former-child is wheelchairing you around high as a kite in the middle of the road because they didn’t get the education they deserved.
Just sayin’.