I have to ask: is anyone else being BESIEGED with email begging

[calimary]

from Democrats you never heard of? And from Terry McAuliffe?

For God’s sake, I must get appeals from him, alone, about every hour or two! I gave a little here and there, earlier this month and STILL the increasingly shrill begging emails came. Altogether I think I’ve donated $150, and he’s STILL sending me desperation emails! On the SAME DAY!!! After I just donated a small amount.

And THEN: emails from various Dem leaders including Nancy Pelosi, screamed by that they need $375!!! Hell, I just today got one desperation appeal from Pelosi for SIX HUNDRED and 75 dollars!?!?!?!?!

What.

The.

FUCK?????

I wish I could confront some of these people and demand to know what they did with what I just gave them!

I’m sorry. I just had to vent. For Pete’s sake, Terry McAuliffe was DNC Chair. I would hope he still has contact info for the big Democratic donors he schmoozed with back then!

Again, my apologies, but shit - it makes me want to NEVER contribute to ANYBODY ever again!!!!! Shit! You try to help some candidate you think is worthy and then they go nuts, pleading poverty and desperation and hounding you for more.

Is anybody else under siege like this?

[Bettie]

1. 50-60 emails a day

And all of them with doom and gloom titles.

Want to know why people think we're losing everything? Because fundraising emails tell us we are. Constantly.

[calimary]

8. Shit - I'm glad it's not just me.

Sorry you’re going through it, too!

[dixiegrrrrl]

80. Very sorry to say that my small donation to a Dem. candidate resulted in spamming from Act Blue.

Pre 2020 election. Emails would not stop. I tried to "unsubscribe" to no avail. finally had to mark it all as spam and that worked.
But has made me sensitive about donations now. It was too much spamming.

[pazzyanne]

38. Same!

Getting tired of deleting 100 to 150 political emails a day to keep my mail box in readable order.

[cinematicdiversions]

63. It is out of control. I donate on teh regular I am not interested in donating

to a senate race a year from now.... I am so sorry you didn't meet your monthly goal.

And Amy I donated to your presidential campaign... I have no idea what you are still asking me for money for.

[OAITW r.2.0]

70. +1 Insightful.

Thing is, the more you give($), the more you get (emails). Democrats and ActBlue need to figure a better way than the current method. An idea-

I spend $2500-4000/year on politics, annually; exclusively on ActBlue. I believe if I don't fund political campaigns, corporations will.

But why not instead - ActBlue - keep my money as a pool and let me think about the political allocation of my money over 12 months? Reward politicians that make consistent political points, and deduct $ from those that prove to be something other than a Democrat.

We should have a value scorecard on political races, so we bet smartly with the best opportunity of winning.

[Kali]

2. I get besieged whenever I donate.

just have to plan to unsubscribe to a pile of emails for a week or so after...

[MLAA]

3. I get many also and lately I'm up to 10 or more texts a day.

[Historic NY]

4. I'm dropping all subscribed emails, let some other people handle the freight.

[msongs]

5. I clicked the unsubscribe button and put a stop to it last year nt

[marble falls]

6. Who do you want your politians beholden to: small donors like you or big corporate donors???

[Skittles]

10. it's not that they ask for money

it's the FREQUENCY of the texts and emails - it just wears you down

[calimary]

15. THIS !!!!!!!

[Skittles]

16. and the news is always doom and gloom

the repuke emails begging for money are also doom and gloom

[Demovictory9]

91. exactly.. so many times per day.

[calimary]

12. I actually do get that.

But for Pete’s sake, there’s asking for an occasional bit of help, and there’s being absolutely deluged, nonstop. I don’t have the means to fund everybody who’s relentlessly hounding me.

[AverageOldGuy]

68. Makes no difference.

I donate $25, Dominion donates $25,000.

Do you REALLY believe the politician gives a shit about me?

[spooky3]

7. Yes. I've unsubscribed and blocked them. Nt

[OAITW r.2.0]

9. The more you contribute, the more solicitations you get.

I'm OK with deleting a couple of dozen ActBlue $ requests everyday, but the quarterly fundraising goals are too much. However, I just contributed to the Nevada Senate Challenger tonight. Last week it was Tim Ryan. I get that you have to pay to play. I prefer Democrats getting their transfusions from Democrats like me.

[Demovictory9]

89. aint that the truth.

[JI7]

11. You don't have the ability to Delete Emails ?

[calimary]

14. Oh yes I do. And I have.

And they keep coming ANYWAY.

[csziggy]

61. Go to the bottom and hit the Unsubscribe link

Often that will send you to a web site where they will ask why you are unsubscribing. Tell them that they are sending too many emails. That might help.

[AverageOldGuy]

66. Deleting doesn't do any good

I'm a Democrat living in Virginia. Back early in the campaign I donated a few $$$ to T. Mac and since then my inbox is O V E R R U N with emails warning me the sky is falling, asking why I haven't donated, shrieking about this and that.

I delete every goddam one of them but it seems that for every one I delete, three more take its place!!!!!

Unsubscribing does no good.

[FakeNoose]

13. Yes

They jump on every political event and issue, and they fire out an email that pretends to be about that issue.

But it's not, it's an appeal for donations EVERY BLESSED TIME!

I don't even open them or respond. I just delete them or send them to spam.

[alwaysinasnit]

17. All the time. I usually get 15-20 e-mails a day.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. BESIEGED is the word. Sick to death of all of them.

And I positively HATE the gloom and doom. This is counter-productive in the extreme.

I too am at the point where I just delete delete delete. I don't even feel guilty any more.

There's got to be a better way.

[Hekate]

19. I hate it, & some of the titles are insulting to one's intelligence. At the bottom of the page...

… in teensy weensy print, is the Unsubscribe link. Click on that and you will be directed to the website to confirm. They will likely ask you if you just want fewer emails — just say no; there is no “fewer” irl. They may also whine and ask you to tell them why you want off the list: by all means let them have it.

A couple of years ago I unsubscribed to (literally) about 50 entities that were badgering me daily. I did this knowing full well that as soon as I donated to anyone for any reason that it would all begin again — and it has; tho lately nearly all of the begging letters end up in my spam filter.

Best of luck.

[whathehell]

20. Oh yes..

I even have Repukes emailing me for $.

[Bucky]

21. Welcome to America

I get solicitations on my phone now.

[calimary]

93. Yep. Me too.

[jmbar2]

22. At some point, we need to have a "come to Jeebus meeting" with our candidates

They are turning every election into a money race. At a certain point, people's minds are made up. More ads don't do any good.

I thought we were against money in politics. If it's bad for the other side, why are they doing this? Seems like a whole election-industrial complex of consultants, advisors and advertising execs are getting rich off this.

Years ago, MoveOn was pestering me mercilessly. I asked them to account for the money and they wouldn't respond. It's time for our candidates to become accountable to us. They are telling us that more money will win the election. Tell us how.

Better yet, lets brainstorm what really makes the difference, besides money. The endless money pitch has gotten out of hand. Our government must not be for sale to the highest bidders.

[GP6971]

23. I get them all the time...at least

20 to 25 a day. And they're all gloom and doom.

They must think we all have unlimited resources. I contribute to the DCC what I can at the end of the month and that's it. I can't afford to support every single candidate that I get an email or text from.

They all wind up in the trash often unread.

[Wounded Bear]

24. Yep! End of the month, elections looming...

[CatWoman]

25. i've been getting them too

and it's extremely annoying.

I'm about to block Terry's ass.

[GoodRaisin]

26. Yeah. I keep blocking them all to go to trash but I still seem to get 3-4 new ones

each week for addresses I haven’t blocked yet.

I don’t send money to anyone who e-mails me.

[Tetrachloride]

27. iCloud and GMail have good filters.

Paypal is my main spam.

[Tetrachloride]

28. A change of email address will do wonders.

[calimary]

94. Interesting strategy.

[lunatica]

29. I immediately look for the unsubscribe link

They stop sending you their emails.

I also go through all the iPhone callers from unknown and block them. It gets crazy!

[Tetrachloride]

30. I don't recall a single political email in a couple years.

or several years.

[brooklynite]

53. Would you like to get some? I can arrange it.....

[Tetrachloride]

56. Catch me if you can. i made an email account just for DU

[doc03]

31. About 30 a day, it is about as bad as last year.

[PatrickforB]

32. 60-80 emails a day, PLEASE!!!! GIVE ME MONEY!!!!

Not to mention direct mails - I usually get 6-8 per month that tell me it is my last chance to give...

And let's not forget spam calls and texts.

YOU KNOW WHAT?

Maybe I'm wrong here, but WHERE IS MY HEALTHCARE? WHY HASN'T SOCIAL SECURITY BEEN EXPANDED? AND HOW ABOUT DEBT-FREE COLLEGE FOR MY GRANDKIDS?

When will all that be coming?

And why are we still farting around getting rid of the filibuster? And why aren't Democrats doing wall to wall education for Americans on taxes and why they aren't always bad?

Please don't take this wrong - I'm a progressive Dem to the core, but I don't really feel up to giving them any money until they bloody well get Manchin and Sinema under control. Yeah, I know that is easier said than done, but it NEEDS to be done.

[rpannier]

43. last chance to give

and yet, they'll send more in the days after

[Leith]

57. If I could rec a single post this one would be it

I hate that US politics is run by money. We the People are desperate for legislation to benefit us. I understand that wrangling with the rethugs is hard work, but you asked some damn good questions - and we all deserve answers.

This passing people's emails around goes way beyond decency.

[calimary]

84. Yeah, no kidding!

We cough up the money over and over and over and over again, and WHAT DO WE GET FOR THAT???


I've donated WAY too much to keep being told "oh, WAAAA! The Republicans wouldn't let us get this done!" And I would love to respond: The Republicans are doing pretty damn well for being the so-called "minority" party! They're certainly getting THEIR way.

Mitch McConnell wouldn't let anything stop him, even so-called "minority" status. What's wrong with YOU, Schumer? What a milquetoast. What a disappointment he is. But I never see any fight in him. I never see any shrewdness in him. I never see any devious thinking and getting around the obstruction from him. I never see ANY ruthlessness from him - and that's pretty much ALL you see from Mitch. I wish our Dems would be more ruthless and devious. Especially since it's the last thing the GOP would be expecting.

I'm TIRED of this "being nice" and "let's play by the rules" stuff. Maybe we need to BREAK a few rules to get something done.

[George II]

33. I don't know where they all came from all of a sudden - just counted - 23 today!

Most of them are from candidates or committees I never signed up with, some I don't even know. There are still four hours to midnight, I'm sure I'll get a bunch more today.

[No Vested Interest]

34. I have made it a point not to donate to political campaigns just for this very reason.

But, I sure have every non-profit and religious organization mailing me. and sending labels, note paper, gift wrap, and greeting cards.

[Rebl2]

35. When you

get one, just unsubscribe. That’s what I did and don’t get near as many anymore except from Pelosi. I have gotten a lot from her this week. I noticed in the past I seem to get more at the end of a month and quarter.

[NellieStarbuck]

36. Yes! It's so bad that I'm just reporting all of them as spam.

I can't send them all money. I don't like being shamed for not sending them money. And I'm sick of having to empty my inbox of 70 screaming money begs every time I log on.

[homegirl]

37. So many I have

invested in a RETURN TO SENDER stamp for the flood of requests I receive in the USPS. RED INK, well worth $8.00. I fill a plastic grocery bag every week and dump back in a mailbox once a week.

Decided years ago to li,it my political contributions to candidates in my home state and those like Stacy Abrams who are effective!

A few out of state and always women Democrats.

[Croney]

39. No. If I donate, I quickly unsubscribe. Any breakthrough emails go to spam.

Keep sending and you're blocked. I'll give you money and my vote but I won't give you my time.

[Demovictory9]

92. that's smart

[lastlib]

40. I stopped giving out my e-mail address.

I don't do online donations, so there's nothing they need my e-mail addy for. On the very rare occasions I do an online donation, I give them a junk e-mail address that I never use or look at. So I'm not bothered by their bombardment.

OTOH, you should see the pile of mail solicitations that go into my trash cans. Thank goodness I have a burn barrel that I can dispose of them in.

[alfredo]

41. It's that time of month

[rpannier]

42. Yeah I get them

People I never heard of running for various offices
They include stories about polls that show, "If the election were held today the republikkan would win." And we're a year out -- color me horrible for not immediately emptying my wallet over this
Or that they're running against the worst trump republikkan in an election a year away
and so on

[broiles]

44. Yes

I only donate to local races. All others I delete without reading.

[East-A-Squared]

45. Yes. It is the end of the month and that's when they increase

the requests for donations.

[Aussie105]

46. Politicians begging for money?

Is that for real, or just a scam?

Hard headed me: I never contribute to anyone, if I think the money may be misspent, or if the recipient earns more than me.
And that's about anyone, seeing I'm a pensioner.

Soft hearted wife: got talked into doing a monthly direct debit to a worthy, non political cause, now gets phone calls to try and get her to up that.
She refuses. Then gets upset. And regrets doing it in the first place.

She also gets lots of emails - on my computer - but they get deleted by me without telling her.

But once you are on their 'sucker' list, the pleas will keep rolling in.

[SharonAnn]

50. You can "unsubscribe", usually in small print near the bottom. It's The LAW!

[SharonAnn]

47. I unsubscribe to all of them. I can donate later if I want.

[Lonestarblue]

48. I get dozens every day and weekly snail mail. It has become tiresome.

Whoever the Democratic groups have hired to create these emails really sucks at it and needs to be fired. They use headlines that aren’t true (McConnell loses, Mitch McConnell is panicking), never explain what actions they’re taking, and just beg for money. They need appeals that speak to our intelligence—we are not the a mindless cult like Republicans worshipping at Trump’s feet.

[brooklynite]

51. Sorry to disagree...

they issue these endless and demoralizing emails because they work. If they DIDN'T work, the candidates and Parties would use a different approach.

[brooklynite]

49. You mean like every other election year?

If you don't want them, unsubscribe. If you want campaigns built on micro contributions, this is the result.

[Gore1FL]

52. I unsubscribed

I don't mind occasional emails asking me to donate. I got a little fed up with the daily sky-is-falling desperation pleas.

[cayugafalls]

54. 15-20 emails, don't bother me. The 5 to 10 texts, some coming at 1 am, yea, kind of salty.

Had to text stop more than a few times.

Oh well, they gotta do what they gotta do...

[monkeyman1]

55. charity begins at home ! ya donate once & your screwed ! sell your address !

[reACTIONary]

58. Set up a gmail address just for donating....

.... then ignore it.

[dobleremolque]

59. It's the nature of the beast, I'm afraid.

I learned to create special filters on keywords in my email client. I'm still deluged with frantic "GIVE!!!!!!!" emails, but the vast majority of them go directly into the trash basket, unopened and unread. A few sneak thru, but my email client lets me drag and drop the escapees to the trash basket, then add that sender to the "This is junk" filter/rule.

Creating a throw-away email address on the free email systems is also a good way to handle this. Always use your throwaway email address if you do decide to contribute.

And avoid clicking on "GIVE!!!!!!" links that are contained in their emails. Sometimes those skirt the ethics if not the law, and will do things like default-check the "make it monthly" box. You'd think that's normal GOP tactics, but I've had it happen, unfortunately, with some (D) begs. My spouse always falls for this so going through her ActBlue account to delete the monthly contributions is a regular email maintenance task.

You just have to live with it. Nothing is going to change it.

[IronLionZion]

60. The phone calls are worse

I had to tell each one to put me on their do not call list. It's all sorts of groups I've never heard of claiming to raise donations for the Dems. hmmm... seems sketchy.

The emails should have an unsubscribe button.

[Lucky Luciano]

62. My entire lifetime donation to politicians is zero dollars.

I get no emails.

[brooklynite]

64. As long as you don't complain about how the Party spends its money....

[AverageOldGuy]

65. I feel your pain!!!!!

I'm a Democrat living in Virginia. Early in the campaign I donated a few $$ to T.Mac. My inbox is OVERRUN with emails from T.Mac, Mrs. T.Mac, Obama, Abrams, The Raging Cajun, and everyone except Jesus Christ and I expect to see an email from him any minute now!!!

Today alone (Sunday, Oct 31) I counted 52 emails from either T. Mac or someone telling me to vote for him and today is not over yet -- still another 3 hours until it's tomorrow with another 50+ emails expected.

I KNOW THE GODDAM ELECTION IS CLOSE!!!!

I KNOW WHAT THE GODDAM POLLS SAY!!!!!!

And there are still 27 hours until Election Day dawns.

[appmanga]

67. I unsubscribe and...

text "STOP" as requested, and I get a lot fewer. At this point, I'm not giving money if folks can't get stuff done.

[ecstatic]

69. Texts and calls. The emails I don't see, I guess due to being filtered away

into promotions, social or spam. Lol

[Mz Pip]

71. Unsubscribe, unsubscribe, unsubscribe.

It’s endless.

[Duppers]

72. I block them in my gmail.

[FailureToCommunicate]

73. It's done this way because it works...enough of the time to offset the annoyance...

If it's any consolation, my friend gets them from Trump, et all, and they are FAR worse.

[virgdem]

74. We are all besieged with these emails, texts and phone calls.

Every election, it never ends. Give what you can and ignore the rest of the noise.

[Thunderbeast]

75. I got a phone call from a Dennis Nunez robot last night

Said call was being recorded. Wanted me to send money to the Nunez campaign so he could fight to restore Trump's Twitter and Facebook accounts. Pelosi was evil, Schumer eats babies...all the greatest hits.

When I asked how long caller had been a Nazi, the robot advised that I would be removed from their call list, but any donation WOULD NOT bo tax deductible.

We MUST reform campaign finance. It will take a Constitutional amendment...Not likely in my lifetime.

[Chellee]

76. Yes. Tons.

I get 60-80 emails a day, 10-12 text messages, and only 3 or 4 things per month snail mail. And yes, I could unsubscribe, but I do choose to donate to various people at a time of my choosing, so I let it go. Honestly, it's pretty easy to hit 'select all' then unselect the couple of emails I want to read, and then delete the whole lot at once. If I have recently given to somebody, or if I don't have any extra to give that week, I don't even open them. Delete, delete, delete. Even the ones that say, "DO NOT DELETE!!!" They're not the boss of me. Delete.

[NoMoreRepugs]

77. Block phone texts and unsubscribe emails. The mail solicitations

are pretty much impossible to stop.

Citizens United insured that all races will involve money - just is what it is at the moment.

[hurl]

78. I am

It seems Actblue is happy to release your email freely if you dontate so that people entirley unrelated to your political life can send requests for donations. I like Actblue overall, but this policy leaves a bad taste.

Now I understand that, until the Supreme Court reverses the ruling that money = speech, we are sadly stuck with fundraising as the primary focus of every political candidate. As much as I wish this were not the case, it actually is in the real world, so I get it.

As others have suggested, I keep political donations specific to a particular email I can manage on that basis. It's unfortunately the best I can do until something major changes, which seems completely unlikely in the foreseeable future.

[Rabrrrrrr]

79. Shitloads every day - and many with real urgent sounding bullshit: "We already lost" or

"deadline approaching".

And sometimes multiple emails from the same candidate (or the DNC) in the same day.

I'm also on Trump's email list, just because it's good to track one's enemies, I would say that I get at least 5 emails every day from him, his son, or someone in the RNC or some other related group begging for money to "save America".

And it does no good to unsubscribe to any of the democratic ones, because they are all sharing emails, so even if Joe Blow gets an unsubscribe from me and doesn't send an email in a day or two, on day three Joe Blow's campaign is getting a whole new set of viable emails from the higher ups, and snap, there I am, back on the idiot's email list.

It's really fucking annoying.

In fact, today (or yesterday) I got an email in the morning from a candidate that I *have* sent money to saying something like "We need to raise XXX amount by this afternoon" (for some dipshit reason) and then - swear to God - got an email from her in the afternoon saying "We sent an email this morning saying that we had to raise XXXX amount by afternoon - because of our supporters, WE MASDE THAT GOAL! But now we need another YYYY this evening!"

Seriously?!?!?!?!

[Demovictory9]

90. I hate the "wish Obama a happy birthday" type. you know darn well that you won;t be allowed

to just wish Obama, Michelle or whoever a happy birthday. its gonna come with a ask for $$$

[MiniMe]

81. I've sent all of those things to spam

I glance at my spam folder on occasion, but I ignore everything. When will they learn that sending too much crap like that isn't going to get you any money.

[Trust_Reality]

82. I'm getting 25 to 35 or 40 per day.

Some times doom and gloom, sometimes fear based potential headlines, etc. They are driving me crazy. "No one is donating!" "Disaster in the making," etc. I stopped donating altogether for several months. Some of them seem to be saying that I need to donate money in order for them to do their jobs. I really do not like money based politics. They get a salary. Can't they just do their jobs?

Sorry to be a downer.

[calimary]

95. YOU'RE not the downer, my friend.

All these relentlessly ravenous badgers are the ones who are downers. Meanwhile, I’ve been enjoying a new exercise lately: delete, delete, delete.


I remember, years ago, some friend commented Ted on how then-DNC Chair McAuliffe was “such a GREAT FUNDRAISER!!!” And I remember, even back then, thinking “so what? What has he actually DONE?”

[Demovictory9]

83. by text if they have my phone number. what is annoying.. after donating to ACT BLUE get immediate

request from more... immediately. give me a breather

[calimary]

85. It's really galling!

Terry McAuliffe is pleading poverty again, and I just donated a little bit more, a couple of hours ago!!!!!

[cadoman]

86. it's overwhelming but I send them what I can to help, especially Terry

We cannot afford to lose VA.

I do wish ActBlue would do a better job coordinating all this though. Maybe it's the PACs buying lists?

[Raine]

87. 50 plus everyday and I never give them a dime

I've made it a rule to never give to candidates, politicians or political parties. I give directly to causes that are important to me those for animals and the environment etc.

[George II]

88. Five more since 8 PM last night.

[lagomorph777]

96. Doesn't your email have any spam filtering available?

I'd never allow that to go on.