I can't believe this!!
Whose boneheaded (no offense, but I just can't believe this!!!) idea was it to spend C4L money on a bunch of "robo-calls" instead of simply calling for volunteers and farming it out in-house???
First, this sort of telephone campaigning is not only NOT effective, it is very likely to be COUNTERPRODUCTIVE in the long run. I mean, almost everyone hates telemarketers. If C4L keeps this up, we're going to get the reputation as "those idiots who keep calling and interrupting my dinner."
Robo-calls might... might arguably be useful in an election, simply because so much of an election is based on name recognition rather than thoughtful debate. But right here, right now, I think C4L is going to be shooting itself in the foot.
What's the point of having a grassroots community and political movement if the "powers that be" at the top refuse to put the rank-and-file to good use??
Campaign For Liberty has over 140,000 members. Almost 30,000 are "dues-paying" account members - myself included - meaning that we believe enough in this movement we're willing to pay out of our own pocket to support it.
Even if just one in ten of the "dues" members would volunteer to make, say, 100 phone calls over the course of a week (about 14 calls per day, something that could happen over a couple hours each evening) we could probably accomplish more than some "ho-hum" phone bank...
I wish C4L would put something like this up for a vote, or at least up for discussion, before spending more member money.
Oh well, just blow it off and go on. I doubt there are very many people there right now holding down the fort.
