I don’t actually know the NJ senator. I’m unfamiliar with his politics. I’m pretty sure he’s a Democrat. But I swear, if I lived in NJ, at this point I’d vote for his opponent.
Why? Because he keeps sending me unsolicited emails asking me to contribute to his campaign. The following is the opening of his most recent one:
Null –
The deadline tonight is vital to our campaign. We’ve got to show our opponents and the pundits exactly how strong our campaign is.
Yes. That’s right. “Null.” No “Dear Peter.” Not even, “My fellow American.” No. I’m “Null.” These people are so freaking incompetent that they can’t be bothered to write a form letter beginning with an actual salutation. Instead I’m “Null.” A zero, a zip, a cypher.
I’ve replied to them three times pointing this out and I keep getting variations on the same dumb-ášš letter. I could just unsubscribe, but no; now it’s a challenge to get the attention of these idiots so that they realize when they send out letters with stupidity such as this, it’s not appreciated.
So join me in not voting for Bob Menendez. Granted, I don’t live in NJ, so I couldn’t vote for him even if I wanted to. But still…it just pìššëš me off.
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As tempting as it is, I’m not sure I can do that — Menendez seems to be doing a lot of the right things in the Senate.
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I do, however, live pretty close to one of his election-time HQ’s. I might just swing by and tell them about this — they should certainly know.
Welcome to my life. (That’s the short version…the long version is that I’m stuck in a dead-end job, in a sheltered workshop, run by selfish, money grabbing bášŧárdš who think that just because I’m on the payroll I [should] have the IQ of a cucumber. And if I lived in NJ, instead of NL, I would back you up.)
I have a similar issue when I made a donation to Hilary Clinton’s presidential campaign a few years back.
I’m still getting emails from her representatives asking for money.
I guess she is still trying to re-coup her losses.
Missed the point, huh?
Oh boy here we go.
My comment was not exactly what Peter was talking about but I thought it was close to the same ball park, Citi Feild, so I decided to share.
A while back, we were getting two or three robocalls from “Newt 2012” daily. I never answered any.
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If the Gingrich campaign (such as it is*) had known anything, they wouldn’t have had our number on the list…
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*Well, such as it pretty well was…
I live in Arizona. I keep getting similar emails from a guy in Colorado. He doesn’t bother putting anything at the top. Not ‘null,’ not ‘Dear ___.’ Just a lot of ‘give us money.’ I have no idea how I got on his mailing list nor how to get off.
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I just got one from Mrs.Inga-Britt Ahlenius. Attention Sir/Madame: She’s stuck in London from Nigeria, and has a ton of money for my account. Sounds legit.
Maybe you should send Mrs Inga-Britt Ahlenius’s name and information to the guy in Colorado.
I hate the informality of it all. They should at least call you “Mr. Hypothesis.”
(I’m sure I’m the only one who thinks that’s funny. But I’d have to run a test to be sure.)
The pun jar is over here.
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I got it.
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T’ain’t funny. McGee.
*Head slap* (It’s an NCIS thing.)
He’s also the head the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Go Team Venture!
No offense, Peter, but while receiving unsolicited emails that are inapplicable to you can by annoying, even moreso if they’re poorly composed by a professional or professional organization, I’m not going to base my vote or lackthereof on this.
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It is ironic, though, he’d compose emails to his constituents so poorly, given that his ex-wife is a teacher. She was my health teacher one semester at Emerson High School, the same high school he himself went to. Guess she never took her work home with her. 🙂
Luigi, I don’t REALLY expect people to base their vote on the fact that I’m pìššëd øff with their emails. I was using hyperbole to convey how annoyed I was.
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PAD
Sorry, it wasn’t conveyed that well to me.
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Or maybe I was a bit dense. 🙂
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HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!
they aren’t even trying these days. at http://althouse.blogspot.com/2011/12/hey-subject-line-on-email-from.html Ann althouse prints out an email she got from our president, taking time off of his vacation to ask for $3. The subject line? “Hey”
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Before anyone feels the need to state the obvious, no, it is highly unlikely the President actually had anything to do with this email, other than hiring the idiots who thought it up. That’s bad enough.
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I don’t mind that they think we’re morons but I do mind that they put so little effort in disguising that thought.
Well, PAD, I can promise you that I won’t vote for him.
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Of course, that’s at least in part because I live on the wrong end of the continent…
Oy, how embaressing; Menendez should fire whomever he has shilling for his reelection campaign if they can’t even use a simple form letter!
Maybe they were trying to reach Null, the Living Darkness (from an issue of Ghost Rider by Michael Fleischer). In which case, they better be careful what they wish for. 🙁
In 2010 Las Vegas had a mayoral election. One of the candidates (a man whose name I no longer recall, ironically) bombarded our snail mail boxes EVERY SINGLE DAY with postcards and other ephemera telling us how great he’d be as mayor (without ever explaining exactly why, BTW). One day one of his campaign workers stopped at our house. She starts her spiel with “You may have seen some of our literature…”
I told her we’d seen some of it every day in the mail, then added, “He’s killing a lot of trees just to make everyone completely sick of him.” Never saw her again, and it should come as no surprise that he lost his bid to be mayor.
I am on so many of these fricking lists too it drives me crazy. Someone got áhøld of my email address at some point where I naively signed up…and then proceeded to sell it to every campaign under the sun. I get crap from Southern California county supervisor races. And I could care less about Southern California (Save for wanting it to go away).
I wish there was a “Please do not email me again – for any campaign ever” option on those opt outs. Obnoxious.
Off Topic:
Not sure where else to post this. I just finished reading “The Camelot Papers” last week. I LOVED it. Great book, it was a lot of fun, and especially great main character. PAD is amazingly good at writing from female first-person perspective ;). Thank you for warning me at Dragon*Con that the cover is somewhat misleading because the book is more serious than it implies. That said, there are some moments that will cause a reader to smirk or laugh out loud. Beautiful cover, all the same.
Other folk on this board, instead of contributing to Bob Menendez, contribute to Peter David and pick this book up. (There, I tied the topic in!)
Though I understand that this was relatively tongue-in-cheek, it amuses me that you essentially called for a boycott of this guy so shortly after writing about how much you dislike boycotts.
Have you considered the possibility that, as a Marvel writer, he thought you might know Null the Living Darkness personally and was hoping you’d forward this e-mail to him?
Null might be wondering why his servant has made no contact with him.
It’s not impossible that someone is sending out fake messages under his name. Certainly wouldn’t be the first time a dirty political trick was pulled in Jersey.
Menendez is generally a good guy. I’ve met him a few times as a US Rep here. And Christie has been going after him for years with underhanded crap dating back to his days as a US Attorney under Bush.
I’m just impressed that he’s that honest about how he feels about his constituency. Probably saves him a whopping 5KB of data on his hard drive by addressing everyone like that.