Attention Representative Tom “Spammer” Price
I guess this really shouldn’t be a surprise, since what Congress does even by design is spend other people’s money, but Rep Tom Price (R-GA) is taking this to ridiculous levels. A few months ago, there were robodialing calls made to my family’s cell phones. After those calls, I used the contact form on Rep Price’s Congressional web site demanding to be removed form his list, and also Rep Linder’s web contact form about it. No reply was received from either one, beyond the automated “thank you for contacting” email.
Today it was text message spam:
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Rep.Tom.Price.mail.House.gov
Do you support the Democratic leadership plan to increase the nat’l debt limit by 1.9 trillion? Support Oppose Opt Out
The really sad thing is we don’t even live in Mr Price’s district. We are misrepresented by Mr Linder.
I sent the following replies:
(1)”Opt Out”
Opt in permission based marketing is the only kind there should be, especially when the message cost is borne by the recipient and not the sender. Particularly sad for a message allegedly protesting the spending of other people’s money. Typical Congressional hypocrisy.
(2)”I am going to vote a straight none of the above ticket until all 537 of you have been fired.”
(3)”I am glad you are not my Congressman. I am very glad you are not my doctor. Spam sucks.”
I also called AT&T (my cell phone provider) to file a complaint about the spam text messages and also to inquire how Mr Price got our cell phone numbers. AT&T’s rep insists that they do not give, sell, or rent their customer’s info to anybody.
So how did Congressman Price get the numbers? He’s not my Congressman, so I certainly never gave any of the cell numbers to him. I’d really like a straight answer on this.
