Yup! The same happened to us. Which is why I will not donate or volunteer for any candidate or the Party. Never give out your phone number or email or address unless you want to be spammed by these groups all the time.
Yup! The same happened to us. Which is why I will not donate or volunteer for any candidate or the Party. Never give out your phone number or email or address unless you want to be spammed by these groups all the time.
Years ago, I worked with a woman whose brother ran for the GOP nomination for governor of Illinois. (Yes, he must have been a little crazy!) This was back in 2007, I think, and at the time of his announcement, he had a tiny website and nothing on Facebook or anything else of that ilk. I sent him an email saying that he really needed to work on a Facebook page, at the very least. I never received a response, but I got signed up for his email list, which I didn't necessarily mind, even though I didn't ask to be. I think he's a generally good guy still (even though he's got his own PAC or something now, some people here might recognize the name from that). In any case, he came in 3rd or 4th in the primary election, which, all things considered, wasn't bad. However, he must have sold off his email list to every Republican cause in Illinois and every "good governance" and group, etc, because before long, my inbox was absolutely flooded with this junk, and *that's* the part that I'm most annoyed with. Those email lists are gold, as email costs them almost nothing to send, and while a 3% rate for mailing is good, less than 1% is great for email. It's absolutely perverse.
Yup! The same happened to us. Which is why I will not donate or volunteer for any candidate or the Party. Never give out your phone number or email or address unless you want to be spammed by these groups all the time.
Years ago, I worked with a woman whose brother ran for the GOP nomination for governor of Illinois. (Yes, he must have been a little crazy!) This was back in 2007, I think, and at the time of his announcement, he had a tiny website and nothing on Facebook or anything else of that ilk. I sent him an email saying that he really needed to work on a Facebook page, at the very least. I never received a response, but I got signed up for his email list, which I didn't necessarily mind, even though I didn't ask to be. I think he's a generally good guy still (even though he's got his own PAC or something now, some people here might recognize the name from that). In any case, he came in 3rd or 4th in the primary election, which, all things considered, wasn't bad. However, he must have sold off his email list to every Republican cause in Illinois and every "good governance" and group, etc, because before long, my inbox was absolutely flooded with this junk, and *that's* the part that I'm most annoyed with. Those email lists are gold, as email costs them almost nothing to send, and while a 3% rate for mailing is good, less than 1% is great for email. It's absolutely perverse.