E-Mail From John Edwards

OK, this one is funny. I sent an e-mail to John Edwards' campaign over the weekend, asking that it be forwarded to Elizabeth Edwards.

My e-mail said essentially the same thing as my post about Rush Limbaugh.

So what do I find in my in box today? An e-mail from John Edwards (well, supposedly from him, but you don't think he writes his own e-mails, do you?) about GLOBAL WARMING. So not my issue.

I immediately went to the campaign Web site and opted out of future e-mails from the candidate.

Last election cycle, the Kerry-Edwards campaign somehow got my e-mail address and I was receiving a minimum of one e-mail a day from the candidates. All of them urgent, of course. Most of them asking for money. I e-mailed them back and told them if they sent me one more e-mail, they would lose my vote.

Worked like a charm. I was off the spam list as of that day.

Is too much to ask that SOMEONE at the campaign reads incoming e-mails and doesn't just capture the e-mail addresses for political spam? Who am I kidding? Of course it is.

Comments

[Jacqueline]

When I saw "E-mail from John Edwards": How naive is this?... I thought I was going to open this blog and find an e-mail from John Edwards that commended you on your hard work, for unveiling truths and/or some correspondence regarding Elizabeth. geese! do I feel dumb.

[jeanne]

Why should you feel dumb? I thought the same thing when I saw the e-mail in my in box--that it would be a response to the e-mail I had sent to Elizabeth. But no, just another chance to capture a voter's e-mail account.

Death to political spam.

[Tina]

I sent them a link to your blog. That was the response I got too -- massive amounts of campaign email asking for money. Bleh.