Al Franken Sucks
OK, maybe that title isn’t completely fair. After all, I am a pinko liberal commie who will ALWAYS watch Trading Places through to the end when I stumble upon it while channel surfing…so I don’t hate Al. Perhaps it’s fairer to say Al Franken’s Marketing team sucks. Or, at the very least, likes to piss off their own voter base.
Over the past month or so, at LEAST once a week, we get a nice lady robot calling us to inform us that my union supports Al Franken.
Well, there are a few things wrong with these phone calls:
- autodialing robots are evil
- I’m not in a union
- My wife isn’t in a union
- after the 5th time, do they really think they are cementing votes? Methinks they may be pissing off votes more than not.
So, I hunt down Al’s campaign web site and call the number. Apparently he’s turned his daughter into a voice mail robot. So, I write an email. An email to not-so-subtley complain about these very annoying and misplaced campaign calls (even if they may not be sourced from his office).
Do I get a nice personal response? An apology? Well, no. Instead I immediately get added to the campaign’s email spam list.
I thought McCain was the only candidate running this season that was clueless about the internet?
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As I understand it, the call you’re complaining about came from a union and not from the Franken campaign.
Make sure you’re barking up the right tree if you want to find out why a union thinks you’re on their list.
Your post is misleading. If you’re like others, you’re getting these calls from the AFL-CIO. AFAIK (and I know a lot in this department), this has nothing to do with Al Franken or his campaign.
Note the “even if they may not be sourced from his office” comment.
How can you be a commie and like Trading Places? If you were really a commie then you would have wanted Louis and Billy Ray to give all their stock earnings to the government. In fact you wouldn’t believe in the stock market at all. A real commie doesn’t want the poor to become rich. He wants everyone to be equally poor.
“How can you be a commie and like Trading Places?”
I guess the Al Franken connection was lost. ;o)