September 15, 2007
The Telephone Hour
From the moment you first plugged it in, your home telephone has been waiting for the moment when its existence would be justified. And now! At last! The Gavin Newsom '08 Phone Bank is ACTIVATING!
Six days a week, starting this weekend and running until November, the phone bank will will be harassing San Franciscans all over San Francisco: vote for Gav! As we know, he's got a pretty extensive collection of phone numbers, so this may take a while.
If you'd like to donate your time to the cause, call Gavin's campaign headquarters at (415) 351-0359 to sign up. In fact, go ahead and call them six days a week, starting this weekend and running until November.
If you do sign up to staff the phone bank, you'll be an unpaid volunteer; so it would be kind of tacky of them to ask you to resign. So feel free to go "off-book" and just start riffing: go ahead and mention Gavin's hostility to Healthy Saturdays, the Muni fare hikes imposed by his Chief of Staff, the soaring murder rate, and the utter failure of municipal WiFi. Hey, if you're going to be bothering people in their homes, you might as well bother them truthfully.
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You forgot the Niners.
And those Gavin callers are relentless! Over and over and over again. I told the story a couple of weeks ago at You Never Give Me Your Money. He's pushing $2 million in his war chest and there's not even a real challenger.
mattymatt, was this post pre-coffee?
Annoying people without a race is tone deaf. Mattymatt should go under cover and get pics of who it is that wastes their time calling for a candidate all but re-elected.
"who it is that wastes their time calling for a candidate all but re-elected?" Well, If I were hotdogging for a commission appointment (or an accepted-resignation staff position) I'd definitely be putting in facetime at the Gavin Chatline. (And I'd print in big block letters at the sign-in desk.)
I already got a pro-Gavin call a couple weeks ago.
Hello my name is ________ calling from Gavin Newsom campaign headquarters.
As you know, Gavin is running unopposed with 78% approval ratings. So, we really, really need your donation.
He’s been Chris Daly tested and Senator Feinstein approved. I’m just an actor, but I play a politician on TV and Nine out of Ten of our voters agree – Gavin won’t stick to Jennifer Siebel’s dental work.
He’s revolutionary!
Gavin Sucks.com
That phboto? Yeah, it's my best friend Kate! From years ago, but still. A sign, no?
I don't know what a phboto is, but it's of Kate. Still fabulous...
"Annoying people without a race is tone deaf."
I agree. Because a person without a race has no life.
Not to ruin the snark but this is the price of living in a Democracy, people call and ask for your vote. Gee that is so terrible isn't it. Here is the other point, turnout in this election is likely to be 35% to 40% at best. If you want to other issues to pass, you very much want Newsom to turn voters out to the polls.
I am not certain of this but I believe these are not fundraising calls.
I got a call a couple of weeks ago, too, from a young man who asked me if I would vote for Gavin. My response was, "Not if I get any more phone calls like this." And then I hung up.
At least these phones are manned by people as opposed to the seemingly endless number of campaigns with an autodialer.
Here's what I would do if a live person called me to promote Gavin Newsom:
"Hey, didn't you see the picture of Newsom gagging on a microphone on SFist?"
'Hi, I'm calling on behalf of Gavin Newsom.
Can he borrow your wife for an hour or two?'
(#15) "Hi, I'm calling on behalf of Gavin Newsom.
Can he borrow your wife for an hour or two?"
Hmmm. I just don't see Gavin as a 60 Minute Man - much more 120 ...
How to give monetary donations to politicians you hate (and the ones you want to piss-off):
I've learned that if you hate a restaurant for its service, leaving no tip makes the waiter think the customer forgot, but leaving a penny just shows that the service sucked.
Don't just give no money or a dollar (that's too much), just get an index card and stick a penny on it.
Don't forget to put your name on it, because by law (at least for this city), they are required to post who gave financial contributions to their campaign, including the amount donated.
Thank you very much, Akit #17.