Legal Commentary

Electioneering Report ? April 1, 2011

By Michael Froomkin

This morning I got another robocall.  I picked up the phone, said “hello” and there was silence. “Hello? Hello!” As a result of all the helloing, I missed the first few words of the call in which the speaker on the scratchy tape identified himself as Somebody Something former Mayor of Something. But whoever he was, his recorded voice asked me to vote for Sanabria because he understands budgets and good public policy. It closed appropriately, identifying itself as a call paid and approved by the campaign for Gonzalo Sanabria.

This afternoon’s mail brought three mailers:

A big garish orange Thank You! from Don Slesnick…

… the daily Rosenblatt …

… and a Quesada.

All those trees….all those dollars….

Full post as published by Discourse.net on April 01, 2011 (boomark / email).