Holy Crap, I've received over 100 solicitation e.mails from Dems TODAY!

[elleng]

This is NOT the way to run a 'railroad!'

[femmocrat]

1. Yikes!

Have you tried to "unsubscribe"? That worked for me. It could take awhile with 100, though!

[elleng]

6. No, I haven't,

haven't thought of it. I don't want to slap Wendy Davis, Alison L G, and others, wouldn't mind contributing and have a bit, but REALLY!

[MohRokTah]

2. I started taking the time to unsubscribe to them all.

I'm about halfway through yesterday's emails.

[LiberalElite]

19. I unsubscribe from the DCCC nearly every

single friggin' day. It's no use. I've taken to not being polite in telling them why in the "why are you unsubscribing?" box. Now I curse. I unsubscribe and the next day I GET ANOTHER PLEA FOR MONEY FROM THEM. I'm considering calling them and asking what the fuck's going on. Or, I'll just set up a free email account and redirect the mail to that in-box and never ever look at it.

[MohRokTah]

22. With the DCCC it seems like you ahve to unsubscribe to EVERY FUCKING CAMPAIGN!

Even worse, you have to watch because the unsubscribe leads to a page where you are actually signing up for more emails unless you click the special "Unsubscribe Anyway" link hidden at the bottom.

I discovered that one the hard way.

[LiberalElite]

27. They probably do that on purpose but

I do click on "unsubscribe anyway". I wonder how I keep getting back on their list.

[MohRokTah]

30. There are 435 elections that they cover.

You might have to unsubscribe 435 times.



One thing is for certain, I'll never EVER contribute to ANY DCCC fundraising thing again because of the emails. Had a single unsubscribe fixed it, I might have reconsidered, but the rude constant emails ended any possibility of me EVER donating to DCCC again (In 2012 I gave a couple hundred bucks over a couple of months).

[LiberalElite]

32. Now I

understand. 435...

[ellenfl]

62. same with the dnc. i just keep unsubscribing. eom

[JI7]

3. you do know they send those exact same letters to others ?

[still_one]

4. It is stupid. Between the emails and phone calls.they are going to irritate people with

This tactic

[Jackpine Radical]

5. No shit. I've been unsubscribing from candidtes' & groups' email lists like crazy.

OMG, the Koch Bros have just put $20 mil into my opponent's war chest. I'm gonna crash & burn if you don't send me $20 by midnight & unlock my matching fund. It'll be all your fault when I lose!

And then there's the phone calls…makes me wanna ditch our landline.

[elleng]

7. Thanks GOODness they haven't phoned!

(Cell only!)

[Jackpine Radical]

11. We've had the same landline for nearly 30 years; there are too many people

who only have this # for us, so it's hard to pull the plug on it.

[MohRokTah]

8. If I gave $5 for every email I received?

I'd be declaring bankruptcy inside a week.

[LiberalElite]

24. yes. I used to be

sucked in by that can you give $3? Move On does that a lot. Or, the other Move On one that makes me laugh: "Can you chip in $65?" Sure, I have $65 lying around here that I didn't know what to do with - thanks!

[RKP5637]

17. If you use VOIP with some services you can just route them to a perpetual busy signal or

whatever. I have to admit, I do take a delight in that, particularly after I get emails that tell me "I" am responsible for the failures of the democratic party! I'll be damn if they are going to get into my phone system.

[Jackpine Radical]

23. We have slow & unreliable rural Internet service.

VOIP="Voice Only Intermittently Present"

[RKP5637]

28. LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm going to remember than line!

[Starry Messenger]

43. Their fundraising approach has sucked this year.

I wrote a couple of harsh letters and unsubscribed too.

[MannyGoldstein]

9. Just curious: what was their general theme?

We'll make big changes together? Or more about stopping Republicans?

Or did you not bother to read them (as I have)?

[elleng]

12. I generally don't read them.

[RKP5637]

10. I just do an auto-redirect to a delete folder and then delete them all

at once. There are way too many to unsubscribe to for me. I got about 100 today. If you set up an auto-redirect you never even see any of them until you go to the delete folder. Some of them I do donate too and others sometimes have some interesting info.

That sad, I'm really fed up with some of them telling me "I" am responsible for the failures of the democratic party. That, really pisses me off, a lot. That type of messaging does not work for me.

[elleng]

14. Right, and I'm glad I don't read them,

'cause that would really piss me off, RKP!

[RKP5637]

18. I'm typing hard on the keyboard now just reading about it! n/t

[underthematrix]

13. me too! Just delete 'em and VOTE BLUE

[elleng]

15. Yup!

[vt_native]

16. I may have carpal tunnel syndrome in my delete button finger

It seems to me supporting progressive causes is kind of a bummer if it means you will constantly be hit up for more money.

[elleng]

20. The real bummer is the system.

We need PUBLIC FUNDING FOR ALL ELECTIONS!

[AngryOldDem]

47. +Gazillion.

We need election reform, PERIOD.

[Cha]

21. I know.. it's overwhelming and I think I'm the only one who

isn't bothered by it. I feel for them.. I wish I could send a $100 bucks to every last one of them for their end of the month fundraising efforts. But, I can't send anything to anybody right now at and I just silently wish the luck as they are fighting the very essence of evil personified.

[elleng]

25. I haven't been bothered until today, Cha, deadline day,

and I feel the way you do.

[Cha]

35. My son complains

about it.

[RKP5637]

31. I give here and there, $3 or $5. It adds up, more than I realize sometimes. Sometimes I get sticker

shock when I look on Act Blue and see how much I've given. Here is what REALLY bugs me. I get super fed up with a country that calls itself democratic and all, and then we have stupid things like Citizens United, and bought/bribed politicians. That, is not a democracy. We MUST get this money out of politics, but I have no idea how that will be accomplished.

[MiniMe]

26. What I hate is the robocalls from candidates when they tie up your phone line and you can't hang up

I plan on voting for the guy, but not if he ties up my phone line like that. I let the answering machine get it, and if I am by the answering machine I listen to find out who is calling. I have tried to pick up the phone and hang up. If I pick up the phone a few minutes later, the damn robocall is still going on. I am not amused.

[muntrv]

29. I delete most of them except for my local candidates. I have given $3/month to Act Blue since the

start of this year.

[mythology]

33. The problem is that it seems to work

Otherwise they wouldn't keep sending out these doom and gloom emails. There was an article on politico.com today about this and how both parties are doing it because it's working.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

34. I lose count of how many I get every day.

Most of them have apocalyptic captions and involve desperate pleas suggesting that if I don't donate immediately, western civilization will collapse and it will be all my fault. It's all just turned into white noise and is not motivating me in the slightest to open my checkbook. Now it's just as annoying as the Nigerian scam emails and manhood enhancement spam.

Although Al Franken's campaign sent a pretty good one the other day captioned "INVASION FROM PLANET ZYRKTOR!"

EMERGENCY -- EMERGENCY -- EMERGENCY

APOCALYPTIC FUNDRAISING EMAIL WARNING!

Sick and tired of emails that make it sound like, without your $5 contribution, aliens from the planet Zyrktor will surely enslave all of humanity and force us to work in their underground salt mines?

Me, too. So I’ll level with you. There’s no alien invasion. The world won’t come to an end if you delete this email.

It went on to ask for money. But at least it was a bit clever.

[gollygee]

36. I have no idea how many I've gotten

Every so often I delete another 5 to 10 of them. It's crazy.

[Botany]

37. I have clicked on so many unsubscribe links it is not funny and yet they ....

.... still keep coming. Ron Barber's outfit is the worst.

[RKP5637]

53. Unsubscribe links are often used to spawn one to other email lists. Clicking unsubscribe,

the coding recognizes an actual person was at the other end, and hence receptive to an email, so others, perhaps similar or different are spawned to approach one from another marketing hype angle. So, the net/net of it all does just the opposite of what one might expect, ending up on more distribution lists than fewer!

[Trekologer]

38. I've received at least 1 from DSCC every 2 hours for the last couple days

It has really become ridiculous.

[barbtries]

39. i'm unsubscribing

as they arrive. the onslaught is way too much

[TeamPooka]

40. My problem is their theme is the only way to beat "big money politics" is to fight fire with fire.

Which means to the party it's all about money and that's a race we can't win.
Grass roots support with come out of the woodwork for their candidates if the party would only embrace policy positions like legalizing cannabis and ending the prison for profit system in our country.
But they don't say this or even care about these issues.

[Hekate]

41. By the beginning of 2014 I was too, from every Dem and otherwise liberal group...

...that I had ever donated to or signed a petition for. I finally sat down, and over a period of two days, unsubscribed from all but two local Dem groups.

This is ridiculous.

[corkhead]

42. same thing happened to me at the end of May. I unsubscribed to them all

and I didn't get any of those emails yesterday. Shame on them for not showing better discipline and abusing my inbox.

[avebury]

44. Any chance a lot of them could be coming

from a faux Democratic site/group? It sounds like something that a group into dirty tricks might try to pull.

[Savannahmann]

45. It's what the Democratic party is best at.

We are exceptionally good at fundraising.

[AngryOldDem]

46. Wow.

Smell of desperation?

I unsubscribed to everything when I started getting e-mails asking me to donate to congressional races thousands of miles away.

Don't they realize how much ill will this creates?

[MerryBlooms]

48. I unsubscribed from a few earlier this morning.

I find it a bit amusing that they give you 'One Last Chance To Donate', before hitting the final unsubscribe button.

[AngryAmish]

49. If they call... use itslenny.com

It takes a bit of tech savvy but the results are delicious.

Also, they called you. Turn it into an obscene phone call, ask them what they are wearing, what kind of underpants, etc.

[AngryAmish]

50. Also, never give a real email to them when you do donate

Something like [e-mail]

[Frustratedlady]

51. I topped 200 by the time I went to bed.

Many of them sounded like dunning notices and inferred I had bad credit with the party. They begged, scolded and tried to embarrass me for not contributing more. It has been this way for months and I just got sick enough of it that I bulled and decided not to donate more.

What I will do, instead, is make sure all my family and friends make it to the polls or vote early. That's a bunch and worth much more than the few dollars I would have given. I realize the importance of this election, so don't yell at me for failing to donate dollars I need for my own survival. The Koch bros. have made a mockery out of our elections and I don't want to participate in seeing who can win the money game.

[hobbit709]

52. I get at least 50 a day, I just delete them

Especially the ones from Debbie Wasserman-Schultz

[drray23]

54. i find it more efficient

To setup filtering rules and redirect all into a junk folder. Unsubscribing is time consuming and does not work well. Your email is always going to be in somebody's list and will be distributed again to the various fundraising outfits.

[whereisjustice]

55. clearly you don't understand how this works

They ask you for money.

You send them money.

Rich corporations send them more money.

Once elected, they legislate in the best interests of the corporations who sent them more money then you did.

When you ask for representation, they accuse you of wanting a pony.

They ask you for money.

You send them money.

Rich corporations send them more money.

Once elected, they legislate in the best interests of the corporations who sent them more money then you did.

When you ask for representation, they accuse you of wanting a pony.

They ask you for money.

You send them money.

Rich corporations send them more money.

Once elected, they legislate in the best interests of the corporations who sent them more money then you did.

When you ask for representation, they accuse you of wanting a pony.

They ask you for money.

You send them money.

Rich corporations send them more money.

Once elected, they legislate in the best interests of the corporations who sent them more money then you did.

When you ask for representation, they accuse you of wanting a pony.

They ask you for money.

You send them money.

Rich corporations send them more money.

Once elected, they legislate in the best interests of the corporations who sent them more money then you did.

When you ask for representation, they accuse you of wanting a pony.

They ask you for money.

You send them money.

Rich corporations send them more money.

Once elected, they legislate in the best interests of the corporations who sent them more money then you did.

When you ask for representation, they accuse you of wanting a pony.

They ask you for money.

You send them money.

Rich corporations send them more money.

Once elected, they legislate in the best interests of the corporations who sent them more money then you did.

When you ask for representation, they accuse you of wanting a pony.

They ask you for money.

You send them money.

Rich corporations send them more money.

Once elected, they legislate in the best interests of the corporations who sent them more money then you did.

When you ask for representation, they accuse you of wanting a pony.

[FiveGoodMen]

63. YUP!!!

[chrisa]

56. The subject lines of the begging emails are creepy.

For example, I got one from "Obama" with the subject, "I need you." Another one said something like "See you tonight!"

I highly doubt these groups need any more money. I bet most of the donations go straight into some executive's pocket.

[BKH70041]

57. Fear. Fear. Fear,

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"Bad news today. This can’t wait. Doomed. Add your name. This literally just happened. Jaw dropping. Crushing blow. Unprecedented blow. Final notice. Final notice. Final notice. We keep e-mailing. Sorry, this has gone too far. We’re in real danger. All hope is lost. Throw in the towel."

But apparently emotional appeals work extremely well.

Very, very well one could say.

[elleng]

58. Didn't work for me.

[bklyncowgirl]

59. I'd like to get one which said; Hi I'm Ruben Scolavino and I'm running for Congress in your district

No one local has reached out to me. They have my e-mail address and information but no, I got gerrymandered. My Congressman used to be Rush Holt. Now it's Chris Smith, a Republican safe district and therefore for the Democrats--I don't exist--except as a seemingly limitless source of donations.

Sorry guys, that ship sailed away with my last job.

That's OK, neither as far as I can tell does my Democratic Candidate does not exist either--except on Facebook where there are pictures of him. Seems like a nice, smiley guy. He's not a Republican. I'll vote for him.

[JustAnotherGen]

60. Love this - and miss Rush Holt

He was a good egg.

I gave up on the DCCC a few years ago. Now I just go straight to the candidate - and cut through their bullshit.

[ellenfl]

61. join the club. i've gotten them from every state. eom