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markodochartaigh

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8. I agree that on the streets action is most important now.
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 03:47 PM
Jul 1

But that does take some money.

I will say that I get about 50 fund raising emails a day, and that is after unsubscribing to dozens of campaigns. I get emails from candidates I have never heard of from states to which I have never been. The last couple of months I'm getting texts and phone calls, I'm not sure how my number got out there, maybe one of the dozens of petitions I sign a week (Yes, dozens. I get probably two hundred but I just delete most). I get about half a dozen spam phone calls a day that aren't political, even on the no-call list everyone in Florida gets those. But I'm getting a half dozen political calls and texts a day. My voicemail is useless, my email would be useless if not for thirty minutes a day deleting and unsubscribing, now I wonder if my texting will become useless. And the ironic thing, I no longer have any money to donate. My working days are over. I'm curious though, do kids these days really like getting dozens of texts, calls, and emails from random candidates every day?

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