5 October, 2004 6:36 PM
It seems that Australia's Prime Minister, John Howard, really wants to get close to the people of this country in the lead up to the federal election this Saturday. A few weeks ago we reported he engaged in SPAMMING the Australian public - today reports are surfacing of him using phone spam - recorded messages to tens of thousands of Aussie homes with messages endorsing Liberal candidates.
"The Liberal Party today defended its use of pre-recorded phone messages from Prime Minister John Howard, with which it is bombarding households across Australia in the lead-up to polling day.
The Liberals are expected to contact tens of thousands of households between now and Saturday, with messages from Mr Howard declaring his support for local candidates in electorates across the country.
A Liberal Party spokesman, who referred to them as advocacy calls, said the party had been contacting voters in this way since 1996.
The only difference was that in the past, campaign workers had read from a prepared script, he said."
Read more at Australian IT - Howard defends phone spam
The Libs are calling them 'advocacy calls' - I call them plain annoying and a waste of money. I think we should start a campaign of bombarding the PM's office with prerecorded messages and emails and see how it goes over.
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My wife got spammed by little johnny yesterday. She hung up. Virtual home invasion if you ask me. Why don't we start bombarding the PMs office with dead rats instead?
Matt
Matt Stone » 8 October, 2004 5:47 PM