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* From a reader…
Rich,
I’m sure most voters across the state are sick of political mailers. Well, my friend got 14 copies of the same thing from Katie Stuart today.
* Stuart is running against Rep. Dwight Kay (R-Glen Carbon)…
posted by Rich Miller
Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 2:52 pm
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Comment by Amalia Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 2:55 pm
Kate Stuart really wants Mr. Potter to know he got into Hogwarts.
Comment by Name/Nickname/Anon Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 2:56 pm
ICYMI
Comment by Responsa Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 2:57 pm
“… Please forward a copy of this letter to 3 friends… and in 2 weeks… you’ll get a pony… “
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 2:59 pm
Sloppy and wasteful. Who is running Stuart’s campaign?
Comment by Dee Lay Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 2:59 pm
“We’re trying to just send letters to people who collect letter, like for a hobby… We heard it’s a thing… “
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 3:01 pm
If one letter is good, 17 is better
Comment by Altgelds Ghost Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 3:02 pm
Katie Stuart - Fighting for fit postal workers
Comment by muon Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 3:02 pm
I am in Kate Cloonen’s district and I get mailers almost every day. Sometime I have gotten the same mailer three days in a row. I have gotten 4 phone calls (even after asking to be removed after the first phone call). Yesterday I was home sick and someone knocked on the door campaigning for Kloonen. I feel your pain.
Comment by justme Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 3:03 pm
RIGGED…I TELL YOU!!! RIGGED!!! Fourteen…count ‘em…FOURTEEN aliases of the same voter to get this much mail. Sad.
Fake Trump
Comment by Anon221 Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 3:04 pm
“After numerous texting scandals, campaigns have now gone to a more traditional, yet time consuming way to talk to each other… “
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 3:04 pm
I’ll bet I have gotten at least 20 at my house during the campaign. However, only addressed to my voting age children. The first 15 to my daughter and now the last 5 for my son.
BTW It got her ZERO votes.
Comment by BIG R. Ph. Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 3:07 pm
Animal: What do all those ladies say in these letters?
Shapiro: What do they always say?
Animal: Lemme read one.
Shapiro: It’s not good for you, Animal.
Animal: Hey, this is with a typewriter… it’s from a finance company.
Shapiro: So it’s from the finance company. So, it’s better than no letter at all. So they want the third payment on the Plymouth.
[dropping each letter on the floor in turn]
Shapiro: So they want the fourth… the fifth… the sixth… the seventh… So they want the Plymouth.
Animal: Sugar Lips Shapiro. Amazing, ain’t it?
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 3:07 pm
I thought Main St. in Collinsville was the home of “No Monkey Business.”
Comment by Ron Burgundy Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 3:08 pm
Burnin’ money.
Comment by Big Muddy Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 3:09 pm
buy a new mail list…
Comment by Saluki Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 3:10 pm
Please, pretty please, vote for me. I’m desperate for your vote. If you don’t vote for me, I will have a temper tantrum, roll around the floor screaming, hold my breath until I die. Pleeeeeease vote for me.
Comment by Huh? Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 3:10 pm
She’s the Pringles chips of campaigning!
Comment by RIJ Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 3:11 pm
Stuart Campaign Response: “We’re very sorry, someone screwed up, and we will find the offending staffer and fire them. They should have received 17 letters.”
Comment by Ron Burgundy Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 3:12 pm
Fourteen phone books later
Comment by Rabid Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 3:13 pm
Finally!
A candidate who can stay on message.
– MrJM
Comment by @MisterJayEm Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 3:15 pm
“Candidate sends all mailers to one household rather than engaging in promiscuous mailing”
Comment by AlfondoGonz Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 3:20 pm
Ron Burgundy — and the staffer responsible for firing that staffer has been sacked.
To the post — finally, a way to decide how to vote in those contests where you simply cannot learn anything helpful about either candidate. Vote for the one who cared enough to send you more mailers.
Comment by Whatever Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 3:21 pm
And they say you never have a second chance at making a good first impression.
Comment by Chicago 20 Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 3:25 pm
“I have been in expectation to receiving a reply on the subject of my last 15… Mail pieces…
Is anybody there… Does anybody care… Does anybody care…
Your obedient… “
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 3:25 pm
Enveloping the occupant
Comment by Rabid Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 3:27 pm
We’d fax you two dozen, but this is more formal and more impressive. Right?
Comment by A guy Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 3:32 pm
After seeing the photo I had to pull from recycling what we’ve received since last pickup 9 days ago. 56 pieces of crap, only 12 of the Stuart letters pictured (5 came today). The rest were shiny, lots of pictures and bold type, not read and put in recycling bin in the garage. Who has convinced these people this is successful? If this works…..we are doomed!
Comment by Retired ISP Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 3:36 pm
We got a GREAT deal on stationary!
Comment by JS Mill Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 3:36 pm
Well, if you’d have listened the first 13 times, we wouldn’t have to send the 14th letter. C’mon man.
Comment by 47th Ward Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 3:38 pm
Circumscribing the voter
Comment by Rabid Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 3:44 pm
This brings the whole “friend-to-friend” concept to a whole new level.
Comment by Team Sleep Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 3:50 pm
You guys don’t understand. Campaigns in Illinois, for both parties, is all about funneling campaign money to connected printers and mailing agents.
Thier all in the pocket of big postal.
Comment by Red tower Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 3:55 pm
Perhaps Rep Kay should go after the environmentalist vote.
Comment by Earnest Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 4:09 pm
Somewhere in that district is a very lonely shut-in who may be extremely happy to receive all these letters.
Comment by Dance Band on the Titanic Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 4:10 pm
I’m deeply offended. I only got two from Stuart yesterday. Though I guess there was one last week, too.
Comment by illini97 Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 4:14 pm
My neighbor received 8 of them today.
That’s 22 mailers between two houses. Madigan’s money well spent.
Comment by Edwardsville Dude Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 4:15 pm
From Kathleen in the Pan Droft video?
Comment by Dave Dahl Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 4:18 pm
== https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYlULx8f1Ac ==
Comment by Dave Dahl Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 4:19 pm
Dear Ms. Stuart:
Thank you for your generous donation.
Sincerely,
The United States Postal Service
Comment by Demoralized Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 4:33 pm
It looks like Katie’s already been indoctrinated into the State’s methodology of doing things in the most inefficient and costly manner. LOL
Comment by (un)Happy State Employee Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 4:45 pm
I know that I am probably the exception to the rule as far as this election year goes, but I have received a single ( note, only ONE ) flyer so far this year and only one robocall.
Granted, both of these were for Judicial Candidates that are in different contested races and that I fully intend to support.
I feel a bit slighted by not being inundated with the overwhelming attention being given to voters in the rest of the state. And I have voted in every election since 1972.
Comment by illini Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 4:53 pm
Elections: Job security for Post Office Employees.
Comment by burbanite Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 8:00 pm
Like illini, I’m feeling a tad neglected. No robocalls, and the only candidate on whose behalf I have received mailers is Robin Kelly. An outfit called Center Forward has sent me three touting her “fight to protect Medicare”, which is logical because I’m that old. But I don’t think sending a “Standing up for Illinois Farmers” mailer to the south side of Chicago was the best use of time and money.
Comment by JoanP Wednesday, Nov 2, 16 @ 8:54 pm