SFist: Photo du Jour 122

Akit

Mon, 12 May 2008 19:15:43 -0800

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.

rroseselavy

Mon, 12 May 2008 15:59:01 -0800

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.

TheCharlie

Mon, 12 May 2008 15:09:11 -0800

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.

wsanders

Mon, 12 May 2008 14:45:54 -0800

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.

DaveRocks

Mon, 12 May 2008 14:19:51 -0800

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.

KatyG

Mon, 12 May 2008 13:43:30 -0800

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

rroseselavy

Mon, 12 May 2008 13:09:43 -0800

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.)

Generic

Mon, 12 May 2008 12:47:27 -0800

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.

tif

Mon, 12 May 2008 12:38:58 -0800

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

RinconHillSF

Mon, 12 May 2008 12:18:44 -0800

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.

wsanders

Mon, 12 May 2008 11:32:21 -0800

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.

Greg

Mon, 12 May 2008 11:00:54 -0800

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.

rroseselavy

Mon, 12 May 2008 10:45:05 -0800

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

RinconHillSF

Mon, 12 May 2008 10:32:05 -0800

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...