Dean supporters: stop calling Senator Harkin's office!

[tedoll78]

The Dean Rapid Response Network has just sent out an e-mail with the following:

"THANKS - WE MADE OUR POINT: we need to stop calling Senator Harkin's office NOW - please pass this around. Iowans for Dean director Jeani Murray has put out a plea to all Dean supporters to stop calling Senator Tom Harkin's office. Apparently, they are getting bombarded with calls and it is tying up their phone lines that they need for constituency business. We had this problem with AFSCME before where we upset some of them by tying up their phone lines. There is nothing stated about emails. However, try to discourage phone calls from your group. It seems to me anyway, that our point has been made!!"

Haha! :bounce: :party: :bounce:

[Cheswick2.0]

1. kick

[revcarol]

2. Significant phrase:"stop calling Sen. Harkin's office NOW."

We will tie up the Senator's phone lines and make him unable to do his job to get our guy elected...BUT, THANKS, WE MADE OUR POINT.

Words can't describe my anger at this SLEAZY CAMPAIGN TACTIC.

I HOPE IT BITES THE DEAN CAMPAIGN IN THE A$$.

[cavebat2000]

4. Lol

calling poeple to ask them to support your candidate is sleazy? I guess EVERY candidate is sleazy then!

[dave29]

5. yes it pissed off the AFSCME so much

they endorsed him

[cavebat2000]

9. lol @ Dave

[LuminousX]

6. Calling that sleazy is a reach. Was it sleazy to contact Al Gore?

You haven't been in politics very long have you?

[NewYorkerfromMass]

12. It's pretty inconsiderate

and galling to think how many are calling from outside the state.

[NWHarkness]

7. How dare they!

I can't believe that those awful Dean supporters would stoop so low as to actually try to convince someone to support their candidate!

[blm]

8. Like the GOP thugs who didn't want votes counted.

That tactic will maybe work in a primary, but, not in a general where ALL Dems will be painted as thugs out to steal the election by a press protecting the teflon coated Bush.

[cavebat2000]

10. I disagree

I dont think it will be bad at all. How is that thuggin? I just dont see it.

[CMT]

11. sleazy?

because Dean has actual supporters who really believe in someone? Nice. I bet you wish your candidate could say the same.

[Atlant]

13. I think tying up the phone lines was an unintentional side-effect...

I think tying up the phone lines was an unintentional side-effect
of the fact that Dr. Dean has thousands and thousands of supporters
who were willing to make this effort.

It wasn't thuggery or anything negative; it was People-Powered
Howard's campaign doing precisely what a campaign does when it
really wants to win. I realize this may be an unfamiliar concept
to many Democrats, especially Democrats who may be of the "play
nice" persuasion, but THIS is PRECISELY how the game
is played when you're playing to win.

And in 2004, a bunch of Democrats are playing to win. Not lose,
certainly not draw, but win, and with overwhelming numbers.

Atlant

[cavebat2000]

3. hehe

And Dean is unelectable. lol POWER POWERED HOWARD!

[tedoll78]

14. How sweet was the timing of this thread?

Sweet, I tell yas!