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redstateblues

(10,565 posts)
Wed Dec 27, 2017, 10:40 PM Dec 2017

Since I have started being a regular small donor

To candidates I believe in, I have been bombarded with calls from almost every Dem that is running for the House or the Senate. I don’t take the calls anymore as they callers are very aggressive. It’s amazing how many times I am called called in the course of a day.

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wasupaloopa

(4,516 posts)
1. The same here. I must get a dozen "unknow caller" calls each day. Once in a while I answer to tell
Wed Dec 27, 2017, 10:56 PM
Dec 2017

them no but never the less it persists.

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
2. I kindly tell them to take me off the call list as I am registered on the dont call thing and Ill
Wed Dec 27, 2017, 11:01 PM
Dec 2017

Report them if they call again. I’m nice about it and it works. It’s a sucky job making cold calls, so I am polite but firm.

elfin

(6,262 posts)
5. Beginning to wonder if the really obnoxious ones are Repub. hires to make us angry at Dems
Wed Dec 27, 2017, 11:12 PM
Dec 2017

Nah, I'm not paranoid. Much.

If they do get through my caller ID somehow, I just say I know how to contribute via the net and take my number off the list in that I NEVER make ANY donations to ANYONE over the phone,

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
8. I didn't get calls but ...
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 01:27 AM
Dec 2017

I made several donations in the 2016 Presidential election,
and got a lot of emails.

I got a couple calls from state candidates' supporters,
but I think they got my number from the voting lists.

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