Where we live, there’s a recall election in effect. The sitting politician is a Republican, the challenger is a Democrat. It probably doesn’t take too much effort to realize that my family is conservative. We’re not specifically Republican, and we treat politics the same way as we do religion. In terms of religion, we call ourselves non-legalistic evangelical fundamentalist Christians. In terms of politics, we call ourselves conservatives.
Well, our unions support the Democratic candidate, and since my wife and I are both union members–by occupation–we are receiving a huge amount of contact in support of the Democratic candidate.
Specifically, we get at least one phone call a day. We get at least one mailing (sometimes up to four) a day. And ten minutes ago, we’ve had the second person come to our door to encourage us to vote. That’s right…they come FROM THE UNION with MY ADDRESS to MY HOME to personally TELL ME to vote for THEIR CANDIDATE. They read my name off a sheet. Ugh. I’ve asked, on a number of occasion, to be removed from mailing lists and calling lists. This seems to have no effect whatsoever. Leave us alone.
Truthfully, we’re not voting for the Democrat, and were there another option, we probably wouldn’t vote for the Republican, either.
But enough is enough. If the CANDIDATE comes to our house, we’ll be happy to visit with them. Or if ONE supporter/representative stopped by to ask to place a lawn sign (which we probably wouldn’t put in our yard), we’d be okay with that, too. Or if after ONE phone call where they made contact with us, they’d stop calling. Or if after ONE returned mailing they left us alone. At this point, if we were originally going to vote for the Democrat, we’d probably choose to vote for the Republican because they have left us alone.
