Someone Needed To Think About This
Somehow my email address got on some list, so that I now get five or six emails every day from a candidate asking for money. Sometimes the sender is supposedly a well known national figure; other times, it’s the candidate himself or herself.
And since they all sound very much the same, I’m confident they’re written by the same national organization and candidates just put their names on them.
Often, the pitch is pretty direct…one who says he’s going to have to close the curtain, his phrase, on the campaign if he doesn’t meet a fundraising goal…another who says he can’t understand why I have not donated because the stakes are so high…you get the idea.
Friday, an email came, indicating the sender was “Chuck Grassley (personal)”…with a generic “info@” email address tied to his campaign.
Here’s the part that someone needed to think about before sending.
The subject line read simply, “I don’t have much time”.
Obviously, the email referred to the fact that a fundraising deadline was drawing near, etc.
But seriously…the Senator turns 89 years of age in less than three weeks…and the subject line of the email–any email–is “I don’t have much time”?
It’s something voters are already considering…especially since his opponent is only 64…and precisely why the campaign has ads showing the Senator getting up and jogging at 4 a.m. six mornings a week, to show that age is only a number.
Maybe I’m the only one that was struck by the unforced error…especially since I’m confident the Senator will outlive me. He’s already got a far better exercise regimen.
