Your daily Letter to the Editor — Nov. 27, 2012
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She hopes Rep. Bob Goodlatte is reading this
I read Cecilia Barton’s comments in Dan Casey’s column (“Desired laws cover junk mail, political ads,” Nov. 13) regarding political telephone calls, and I agree with her 100 percent. I don’t want any of them.
I hate them, and I want them stopped, regardless of party affiliation and regardless of what it would take to get them stopped.
I even called one man’s cellphone back repeatedly to tell him to take my name off his list, only to get a recording that his voice mail was full and to leave my telephone number and he would call me back. I called him at 2 and 3 in the morning, only to get the same message.
Other phone numbers would not allow me to return the calls, period.
I got anywhere from five to 10 calls per day. A lot the Caller ID identified as “Republican Party.”
The TV ads really bothered me, too.
The blatant lies and running down of each candidate by someone in the opposing party need to be stopped.
And something should be done about the louder volume of all TV ads.
Hope Rep. Bob Goodlatte is reading this.
Pat Deel
CLOVERDALE
November 27, 2012 - 1:30 PM
The disturbing political messages are not just phone calls and mailers; they include many articles in the Roanoke Times.
Of note is the gross cartoon in the 11-26-2012 edition in which the inquiry into Ambassador Steven’s murder is treated as a joke. How sad.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2012/11/ambassador-stevens-murder-investigation.html
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I bet there are a lot of people living in North Korea and Iran than wished they could receive all of those political campaign mail pieces and phone calls and watch those television ads in order to be able to freely go to the voting polls and cast a ballot for the candidate of their choice coming from a whole list of choices. Sure don’t want to bother or trouble anyone in our country anymore, they are all so tired from a day of working hard on their smart phones and ipads ya know…
Speaking of North Korea, did anyone else hear about this story.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/11/28/166058837/ok-north-koreas-leader-isnt-sexiest-man-alive-chinese-media-concede?sc=tw&cc=share
Yeah, we should restrict campaign advertising so that the far mainstream media is the sole source for information about the candidates.