My email to the Leslie Coolidge for Congress Campaign

You should know this about your telemarketing staff

They must have trained in a boiler room to sell rotten stocks to the very suceptible.

Your telemarketer who called our house today (Ganzer, (www) yyy-xxxx) did a great job of not taking no (not now, actually) for an answered, and persisted (after all, my father does not have the common sense to hang up on unwanted phone calls) in trying to suck money out of his pocket.

Then they hit a nerve, because it reminded him of how his wife (my mother) died last July 31, 2011, and how, amongst other things, the household income has declined by 50%, and how even though he still tithes for church, and additionally contributes to other causes he deems worthy, he cannot afford to tithe and give more upon the tithe at the same level as before.

The phone call ended with my father raising his voice to inform the telemarketeer that my father would under NO CIRCUMSTANCES WHATSOEVER vote for Leslie Coolidge for any political office she might ever aspire to.  This response, from a life long member of the Democratic Party, a retired high school teacher who negotiated over 20 teacher's union contracts, is stunning indeed.

Don't you know how to train telemarketeers in the fine art of, "thank you for your time. We really want your vote in November.  Have a good day."

Out of solidarity for my father, I have decided to not vote for Leslie either.

Two more years of Peter Roskem won't be the worst political experience to ever befall us.

You really ought to shape up your campaign in order to have any hope at all of winning.

Maybe you should talk with Maureen Yates, whose votes in the primary cost her $0.70 each as compared to the votes Leslie garnered, which cost $10.00 each.

Just saying.

Mark Ganzer