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loudsue

(14,087 posts)
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 01:01 PM Apr 2013

Does everyone else get all those e-mails from the Obama camp, and

the DCCC, and from Jon Carson & Lindsay Siler with OFA, and from Nancy Pelosi and Debbie Wasserman Schultz with the DNC? I get them every day. And I'm sending them back with fairly nasty e-mails about Obama proposing the chained CPI in his budget. Every chance I get I e-mail, and call.

I'm still so outraged by the whole thing, and I feel helpless. Like a few e-mails are going to change the course of this despicable act. Obama knew it wasn't popular. Obama knew the vast majority of Americans are totally against this. HE KNEW. HE KNOWS. What is it going to do to get another e-mail?

I've been telling all my state and local dem elected officials that Obama is screwing them out of their next election by doing this. Hopefully, the elected dems, THEMSELVES, will put pressure on the party to put pressure on him.

I can't even believe we're having to do this.

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Armstead

(47,803 posts)
1. I get 'em too. But I suspect any replies....
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 01:03 PM
Apr 2013

just go into their spam file -- unless it is another donation.

loudsue

(14,087 posts)
3. They say I'm important, too.
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 01:13 PM
Apr 2013

But what I think about chained CPI couldn't be less important to them as far as I can tell.

 

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)
4. I imagine they are getting feedback through those e-mails.
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 01:18 PM
Apr 2013

They have like 20 million people getting them.

tabbycat31

(6,336 posts)
5. the replies do go to someone
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 01:20 PM
Apr 2013

I know on my last race, whenever an email was sent related to my department, I was the one who got the replies.

tabbycat31

(6,336 posts)
8. I always passed the comments on
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 01:47 PM
Apr 2013

Most were of the 'take me off the list' as they lived nowhere near the district. But we had a staff of 11 and I saw my candidate every day.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
7. Yes,and send back negative replies.
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 01:47 PM
Apr 2013

Their aides must be shitting their pants lately. You mess with your base,their going to respond. This isn't the Rethugs your dealing with,Dems tend to be much more informed. Scary!!!!

loudsue

(14,087 posts)
9. Wellstone did indeed RULE!
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 08:00 PM
Apr 2013

I hope they care. I don't really think they do, though. I think that they are only concerned with getting MONEY for their campaigns, and they figure that the big boys take care of that, and they try to keep us nobodies scared enough to show up at the polls.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
11. Yep, if they are email I delete them. If they are snail mail, I send them back in
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 08:07 PM
Apr 2013

their postage paid envelopes with a note as to why I won't contribute to them. I stopped getting snail mail awhile ago.

 

forestpath

(3,102 posts)
12. Not anymore. I unsubscribed to all the Democratic party mailing lists I was on -
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 08:10 PM
Apr 2013

and if the unsubscribe form took me to a page that asked why, I let 'em have it.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
14. I get them from the W.H. I also get some from Sherrod Brown & Al Franken.
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 09:05 PM
Apr 2013

I don't think I can reply to the W.H. ones. Don't know if it's an email address you can respond to. I did once, and it didn't bounce back, but I don't know.

I don't read the Brown and Franken ones much any more. They're usu. asking for money. So are the Obama ones.

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