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* Some folks received this text…

Click the link and it goes here…

Cute.

Are you getting many campaign texts this season? Seems like I’ve received more than in the past.

posted by Rich Miller
Friday, Nov 4, 22 @ 12:15 pm

Comments

Desperate attempts to be relevant. Go away Catalina.

Comment by Doug Friday, Nov 4, 22 @ 12:23 pm
Tons, all from outside my district(s), and the numbers get immediately blocked. Curiously, with the exception of one from Sean Casten, they’ve all come from Republicans outside of Illinois.

Comment by Northsider Friday, Nov 4, 22 @ 12:28 pm
I haven’t received any. I am not sad about that.

Comment by JoanP Friday, Nov 4, 22 @ 12:33 pm
I get an average ofa half dozen per day, 7 days a week.

Fairly even split of Dem/GOP.

I use Google Messenger on Android and 99.9% of them automatically go into it’s spam folder without any intervention having been done on my part.

Comment by jimbo Friday, Nov 4, 22 @ 12:38 pm
Have received multiple texts assuming I’m a voter in (1) DuPage Co. and (2) Wisconsin. I vote in Sangamon Co.

Comment by Oldtimer Friday, Nov 4, 22 @ 12:41 pm
No, but I receive multiple emails a day with the same pleas for money.

Comment by Anonymous 103 Friday, Nov 4, 22 @ 12:42 pm
Yes I am getting a lot of campaign texts. Mostly from states I have never lived in. In addition some of them refer to me by someone else’s name. A name that I have found listed in a internet search list of numbers and appears to me to go with the phone number one number greater than mine. So obviously people can’t read a list of numbers. I’ve blocked every number I’ve gotten a campaign text from.

Comment by thoughts matter Friday, Nov 4, 22 @ 12:43 pm
Ms. Lauf claims the Democrats are working “to humiliate me “ and “to ruin me”.

Please send a wambulance to Ms. Lauf’s headquarters.

Comment by Rudy’s teeth Friday, Nov 4, 22 @ 12:46 pm
Yes and I delete every one of them immediately.

Comment by Wensicia Friday, Nov 4, 22 @ 12:49 pm
I get a lot, but I also have the unfortunate circumstance of someone from Mattoon-Charleston that is a regular GOP voter/donor transposing a digit in their cellphone number on some form they filled out a few years ago. Ever since 2019, I have been getting regular very district-specific texts, despite me responding STOP to all of them and then blocking the number.

I know it’s a transposed number, too, because many of the texts include the intended recipient’s name and I eventually looked them up to see if they were real.

Comment by Leap Day William Friday, Nov 4, 22 @ 12:54 pm
Esther Joy King sends me a couple of texts a week. I don’t live in her district. About the same time she started sending texts I began to get phone messages asking me to participate in phone surveys.

Comment by Jaguar Friday, Nov 4, 22 @ 12:57 pm
I have been getting roughly the same number of texts even though I was redistricted out of any competitive races. So I would guess others are receiving more.

I notified a significant drop in emails though. Looked through the junk folder and there are over one hundred in the last 7 days. Very few people are seeing those these days.

Comment by Mr. Middle Ground Friday, Nov 4, 22 @ 12:58 pm
I don’t think I’ve received a single one. I am fortunate.

Comment by up2now Friday, Nov 4, 22 @ 1:01 pm
Several texts per day, all but one have been GOP oriented with school litter boxes and other anti-Pritzker idiocy in several of them. My former party is completely overrun with imbeciles.

Comment by former southerner Friday, Nov 4, 22 @ 1:03 pm
Daily. Same area codes, different exchanges each time.

Comment by Steve Earle Friday, Nov 4, 22 @ 1:10 pm
“Every RINO & liberal in America” is trying to ruin her. But the only individual she mentions by name is Nancy Pelosi.

Stay classy Catty.

Comment by Henry Francis Friday, Nov 4, 22 @ 1:12 pm
One from JB and Lt Guv asking me to help again this election cycle. I did a lot of phone banking and doorknocking last round but received no simple “thanks,” so I politely declined. I realize this is on the local campaign office manager, but it still bugged me.

Comment by Central Ill Friday, Nov 4, 22 @ 1:19 pm
Not many texts. Maybe 1 a week. I use the STOP reply and none have sent a repeat text.

Comment by Friendly Bob Adams Friday, Nov 4, 22 @ 1:30 pm
None here, but robocalls have increased in the past couple weeks. New laws haven’t helped much with that.

Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Friday, Nov 4, 22 @ 1:39 pm
I’ve gotten exactly one text this season, which I presume was from FloriDan as it claimed a bunch of lies about the safe-t act.

I also received my first Proft paper yesterday, the Chicago City Wire. What a peach that one is

Comment by Joe Bidenopolous Friday, Nov 4, 22 @ 1:44 pm
No texts, but my spam filter on my phone is doing a fantastic job of identifying political calls that I can send straight to VM.

Comment by ChrisB Friday, Nov 4, 22 @ 1:50 pm
It is bad, last cycle I was getting a ton of messages from Montana for a Claire, well last I checked that’s not my name. This year it’s New York, South Carolina, Texas, and random congressional and state rep candidates from places I have no connection to.

I’ve seen how bad some of the data is out there for these lists, and no candidate should pay for any of this trash data.

Comment by Temporary West Coat Guy Friday, Nov 4, 22 @ 2:05 pm
NO texts, no e mails. Figure reason is I don’t do anything political, or charities on line, land or cell. All my political interaction is the old fashioned way….by mail….of course that means my mailbox has gotten lots and lots and lots of solicitations from candidates this election cycle.

Comment by Product of the '60's Friday, Nov 4, 22 @ 2:10 pm
Lauf is a terrible sort of candidate that attracts maggots to mold…

Conspiracy theorists, insurrection apologist and racist thinking… while also…”Every RINO & liberal in America”

Lauf is bad for this state and this country.

If Foster wasn’t so lazy…

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Nov 4, 22 @ 2:11 pm
Got a ton of donation texts from Aug - Oct but blocking a lot of #s and the campaigns switching to GOTV have thankfully stopped those.

Also got a couple of text reminders from locals to vote but I already had.

Comment by hisgirlfriday Friday, Nov 4, 22 @ 2:13 pm
Been getting quite a few from out of state candidates addressing me as “Bob” despite my name not being Bob. Blocking them has reduced the volume as of late.

Comment by Dance Band on the Titanic Friday, Nov 4, 22 @ 3:50 pm