The fact remains that Michael Carter is using this ploy to collect info. Even if a person gives only a phone number, the campaign can do a reverse look-up by number and, in most cases, obtain a name and address to add to the campaign mailing lists. Unlike the do-not-call law, the National Political Do Not Call Registry has no “teeth” in the form of a law to back it up. It’s being operated by a non-profit. By hooking it into a campaign, it exploits what most people count as a positive (the do-not-call concept) for personal political gain.
Also, you don’t have the numbers of everyone who stumbles upon your site, do you? And you’ve already broken the promise you mention in the last paragraph of your comment above — you’ve called me TWICE!
Truemors
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at 18:21 on April 19th, 2008
Chad,
The fact remains that Michael Carter is using this ploy to collect info. Even if a person gives only a phone number, the campaign can do a reverse look-up by number and, in most cases, obtain a name and address to add to the campaign mailing lists. Unlike the do-not-call law, the National Political Do Not Call Registry has no “teeth” in the form of a law to back it up. It’s being operated by a non-profit. By hooking it into a campaign, it exploits what most people count as a positive (the do-not-call concept) for personal political gain.
Also, you don’t have the numbers of everyone who stumbles upon your site, do you? And you’ve already broken the promise you mention in the last paragraph of your comment above — you’ve called me TWICE!