In case anyone’s missed it, I hate robocalls. They’re a plague on the election process, and I’ve vowed to not vote for any candidate who robo-calls me.
I’m not alone in detesting robocalls. It seems that Senators Feinstein and Specter have a bill in the Senate which would seriously curtail such shenanigans if it became law. ABC’s Blotter has a post on the subject, which includes the following reaction from a robocaller:
“[I]t’s bad for democracy,” one Democratic consultant told Politics magazine recently. His company is a member of the American Association of Political Consultants, which is pushing to stop the Feinstein-Specter bill, and defend “our clients’ First Amendment right to communicate with voters.”
So, would it be wrong for me to point out that the folks opposing robocalling aren’t necessarily opposed to stopping all forms of calls? I certainly don’t want to infringe upon candidates’ abilities to reach out to potential voters.
However, is it so much to ask that if they choose to do so by phone, they could at least extend the courtesy of putting a human on their end of the line to talk to me?