[Re: Loose Cannon: The Selling of the Election 2006, Direct Newsline, Nov. 6, 2006, (directmag.com/loosecannon/loose-cannon-selling-election-2006-110606/)]:
In the “Bumper Stickers Aimed at Non-Voters” Category:
Clean Your House (and Your Senate). Vote!
Got democracy? Vote Nov. 7
VOTE! (or I¹ll decide for you) *
* I didn’t write this one, but I like it, so I’m passing it on with the comment that the car it should appear on depends on which party’s voters you want to galvanize. Put it on Bill O¹Reilly’s Hummer to stir up Democrats and Al Gore’s Prius to agitate Republicans.
Jodi Kaplan
Principal
KaplanCopy
New York City
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[Re: Loose Cannon: An End to Political Telemarketing? Was That Airborne Swine? Direct Newsline, July 17, 2006 (www.directmag.com/loosecannon/loose-cannon-political-telemarketing-airborne-swine-071706/)]
I glanced at your piece and saw enough in it to think that I agreed with you in holding that political marketing — whether in the form of telephone calls from actual people, recorded calls, or the various forms of dirty tricks such as polls that are really advertisements for candidates and, a new one for me, calls in the middle of the night made to progressive Democrats allegedly from the Democratic party — is a thoroughly bad thing.
I am neither a rich man nor a political activist looking for a new cause to pursue. But I would join an organization seeking enable people who don’t want their privacy invaded to place their names and telephone numbers on an appropriate ‘do not call list.’ I also think that this might be the time to get something along these lines going since lots of people have had their privacy invaded five or ten times a day for the past three months.
Garry M. Brodsky
Emeritus Professor of Philosophy
University of Connecticut
Pawtucket RI
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