The political climate in Wisconsin is pretty heated right now, and a few important elections are staring us in the face. I'm not going to talk about the issues or the candidates - if you follow politics, you know what's what, and if you don't, you likely don't really care.
In any case, I arrived home tonight to find that I'd received four (yes, FOUR) phone calls from an Arkansas area code, 501, and two messages left. These recordings were paid for by the Wisconsin Grandsons of Liberty. I'm not terribly familiar with this group or their platform, so I have no comment on that. I appreciate the message to go out and vote tomorrow that was contained in the recording. What I don't appreciate is the purported concern for the State of Wisconsin and its citizens, coming from an out of state phone number. If you're truly that concerned about what's going on here, why are you employing people elsewhere to help bring your message to the people of this state?
Wisconsin Grandsons of Liberty: massive FAIL.
A Wisconsin company was hired to produce the calls for WI GrandSons of Liberty. They use a bank of phones with multiple numbers to facilitate the calls. The calls are routed through servers that are assigned numbers from a bank and not by geography (or so the company has explained to us).
Sorry to hear that you received 4 calls - we will inform the Milwaukee based company of this problem.
Posted by: WI GrandSons of Liberty | April 09, 2011 at 11:15 AM
WIGOL: I appreciate you taking the time to comment & explain. I understand the technology, but I still think it sends an unfortunate message to the people who are called from out-of-state numbers. And it's a basic business principle: For every person who actually complains, you have something like 25 others who have the same complaint but don't say anything. Just something to think about.
In any case, thanks for stopping by!
Posted by: Stylishboots | April 11, 2011 at 11:20 AM