Speaking of voting, The Obama election office opened on Saturday. I went over to cover the event, starting Sunday up until last night, (I have received about 14 emails from the local Obama campaign office. About six a day on Sunday and Monday and a couple on Tuesday, all different emails. It's annoying and illegal because I never signed up for these, I handed one person my card at the event as a courtesy so he knew why I was taking pictures and there is no unsubscribe link on the non-stop emails. You can't just put people on an email list without their permission and if you do, there legally has to be an unsubscribe button. I never signed their email list.
These guys at the event on Saturday were quite aggressive, too. Very rude, pushy and not very professional. They seem to be green college kids and it's very admirable that they are pushing the re-election campaign, but they need to back down a bit or they will turn off the very people they are trying to engage.
I had to call the organizer personally to get off their email list (which I am still not off) and I had to fight off a guy at the door at the event who would not take no for an answer when I was asked to sign up for volunteer positions and I said I wanted to think about it. Very unprofessional. I don't think Obama would approve.
By the way, when I voted yesterday in the local elections, I did not vote for any politicians that had my house called daily with robotic messages. None. And all those judges that spammed every empty lot and fence, I didn't vote for them either. Now let's see how long it takes for that litter to be taken down.
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