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May 12, 2008

Photo du Jour 122

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Photo by Dave Schumaker

Is you mailbox inundated as well? (Which is why you should never register to vote, kids.)

By Brock in Miscellaneous | Link | Comments (14) | Recommend this! (1) |

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Comments (14)

[1] | 05/12/08 10:32AM

People running for the DCCC are taking on the expense of printing and mailing post cards? These are unpaid spots, right? So where does the value come in? Hmm...

[2] | 05/12/08 10:45AM

A good number of these candidates are using their concern for the environment as a selling point.

[3] | 05/12/08 11:00AM

this year I'm getting very little in the way of mail, unfortunately, only because I like to scan in the pieces and deconstruct 'em on my site.

so if anyone has anything good, email me and let me know what ya got.

as for running for DCCC, it's the worst of all worlds - you have to talk to voters, and you have no money to do so in most cases.

Unless of course you are a well connected incumbent elected official who can raise money from people who have it.

[4] | 05/12/08 11:32AM

Last I heard they have recycle bins in San Francisco, even if it is impossible for anyone with a job to leave them out on the curb without being fined.

[5] | 05/12/08 12:18PM

Maybe we can tally the number of mailers the "environmentalists" are sending out. I already marked my ballot and sent it back to the Elections Department - I wish I could tell the campaigns to not waste any more paper on me.

[6] | 05/12/08 12:38PM

At least they don't stick them in windshields and on doorknobs like some of the take-out or delivery places in my neighborhood...

[7] | 05/12/08 12:47PM

Must confess, I love 'em.

My fave was the touchy-feely aw-shucks-he's-such-a-family-man flyer Willie Brown sent out when he was up against Tom Ammiano for Mayor.

Considering these offices/issues are fairly important, (and also that the public is so willfully ignorant) the cost of shredding the trees seems a fair trade.

[8] | 05/12/08 01:09PM

Generic, you make a good point, but how many of us are swayed by a postcard? If these issues are so important, wouldn't you seek out information about them on the Internets? (I almost said something about print media, but then I took turns laughing and then hanging my head.)

[9] | 05/12/08 01:43PM

As a decline-to-state voter, I get far less "Vote for me!!!" mail than my partner, a registered Dem, fwiw.

[10] | 05/12/08 02:19PM

KatyG - That's an interesting point. I remember getting far less email when I was a decline-to-state voter. I switched to Democrat this year to vote in the primary (permanent absentee voter).

Perhaps I should switch back to end this madness.

[11] | 05/12/08 02:45PM

I think you can still vote in the Dem primaries if you are decline-to-state, so there's not much point in registering Dem unless you want to play around in whatever additional monkey business registration allows you to.

[12] | 05/12/08 03:09PM

I just think it's ridiculous that the environmentalists send mail about how green they are, and they're sending two of everything to my mailbox because we have 2 registered dems. It really pisses me off actually. You'd think the "we're greener than the other guys" campaigns would not rely so heavily on printed materials.

[13] | 05/12/08 03:59PM

Oh yeah, and plus, do I care what kind of environmentalist my candidate for judge is? Or even my Assembly member? Their power to enact any substantive change is rather limited.

[14] | 05/12/08 07:15PM

Do what I do to those damn fliers: Write "REFUSED" with a black permanent marker and black-out your address (not your name). Simply dump it at your nearest mail box.

That'll teach them to kill trees.