When I got home from work this evening, as usual, one of the first things I did was to check the logs for this website. I saw that there had been a real explosion of activity this afternoon. Lots of people hitting the site with search strings like:
- “peter roskam phone calls”
- “how to get peter roskam to stop calling”
- “remove my number from peter roskam phone”
From past experience I knew this must mean Roskam was conducting another phone campaign so I went to my voice mail and there was another “sorry I missed you” message from Roskam indicating that he was presently holding yet another telephonic “town hall”. I can’t count how many of these messages I’ve received over the past year. They always seem to come around dinner time. I can understand why they’re pissing people off. Roskam is taking them away from their meals and from time with their kids, from their time to relax at the end of a busy day.
And the sad thing is, he’s not really calling to listen to people, he’s calling to campaign against healthcare reform, against cap and trade, and against just about anything that President Obama and the Democrats in Congress try to do to rescue the economy and to improve the lives of ordinary people. Anybody who signs on to one of these town halls is going to hear the same tired talking points that Roskam has been repeating over and over and over again. He’s not going to listen. And he’s not going to offer any real plan of his own to address the healthcare crisis, or global climate change, or unemployment. He’s just going to attack the Democrats who are actually trying to solve problems.
And Roskam is using our tax dollars, the money that is deducted from our paychecks each week, to run these telephone campaigns and the mail campaigns as well. He’s not providing any information to citizens – he’s merely waging a political campaign against the Democrats and he’s doing it on our nickel. As someone who likes to style himself as a ‘hero of the taxpayer”, Roskam should be ashamed. But of course, as we all know by now, Roskam has no shame.
There’s probably no easy way to get Roskam to stop calling. I’m writing this post in hopes that he’ll take note and stop harassing his constituents. You can try calling him and asking him to remove you from his list. I’m not sure whether he’ll comply. His local office number is (630) 893-9670. In Washington, the number is (202) 225-4561.
There’s also a web site you can try, stoppoliticalcalls.org. They say that they’ll send your contact information to ALL political parties, candidates, political action committees, and any other organization that makes political robo calls and ensure that they are told that you no longer want robo calls from them. Again, no guarantees the calls will stop.
Good luck!
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