In the last three weeks, I have received more than 12 phone calls from various candidate offices of the BC Liberal Party.
I wouldn’t mind so much if these calls were coming to my home phone, where incoming long distance comes without a fee. Alas, the pesky politicians are calling my cell phone – a phone that carries a cost when incoming long distance calls are received.
Now in the last week, the automated calls have been replaced with actual people. Their message is quite likely the same, but I haven’t had the pleasure of hearing all of it, as they usually hang up on me.
The reason I’m being hung up on is because I’m informing these folks that I’ve called their offices three times – twice leaving messages, and the third time speaking with one of their representatives – to demand they remove me from their call list. What is worse, is that it isn’t even me who they are looking for. My cell phone number has obviously been ‘recycled,’ and the Danica they are looking for is no longer answering.
When I spoke with the BC Liberal party representative, they were only somewhat apologetic, but ensured me my number would be removed from their list. I’ve received four calls since then.
How is this kind of campaigning – a mild form of harassment at a cost to me, no less – even allowed?
Stop phoning me. Your pestering phone calls are doing nothing to convince me, my friends or my family, to vote for you.
Mardy Bacigalupo