Keep a pad and pen near your phone. When you are serving dinner, or about to go to bed, or just getting home after a tired day's work, your phone will ring, probably every evening until November. If you have Caller ID, it will display "Unknown" or "Out of Area", and it may show a string of digits that do not resolve into any real sort of phone number. If you answer it, you'll hear the click and a recorded message from a candidate will play. If you leave it for your voice mail, chances are good the recording will actually trigger when the voice mail message ends, and you'll get the recording on your voice mail.
Here's where the pad and pen come in handy: write down the name of the candidate, and the office he or she is running for.
Take that list of names with you to the polls in November.
Mark any names but theirs.
Politicians who invade your home, who make use of your personal information simply to promote their self-centered egotistic selves, who make use of the loophole they crafted into the National Do Not Call Registry law, do NOT deserve to be elected into office.
I have, in fact, taken it a step further and left a message with the incumbents who are running for office who have done this to me, letting them know how I feel.
A new scam targets Vermont seniors. Thieves are calling retirement communities pretending to be grandchildren in desperate need of money. I'm pretty sure these are actually candidates raising advertising money
"They called about midmorning and a voice just like my grandson's said, 'hello grandma,'" Dorothy Eldred recounted.
I'm pretty sure we have the best possible protection against this scam.
We don't answer the phone.
We don't answer the phone.
Neither do we - but we still get the candidates' messages on the answering machine. And no, I don't vote for them.
Of course, I'm not in Vermont and I don't have grandkids, so the particular scam Dick mentioned isn't an issue for me. Unless they move it to Georgia and start pestering my dad, in which case I will be ready to KILL.
Actually, I only answer the phone if I recognize the name on the Caller ID, or the number. If an unknown caller really wants to talk to me, they can leave a message that entices me to do so.
Leaving a canned message makes me want to call them and rip them new orifices.
I see they are on to you.
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