Lisa Blunt Rochester Tries to Trick Voters into Contributing to Her Campaign.

Filed in Delaware by on August 9, 2016

So. Lisa Blunt Rochester sends out the following e-mail:

 

Friends,

This week we celebrate the 51st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act being signed into law. It is a piece of legislation that guarantees all Americans—no matter their race—the right to vote.

For the first time in half a century, we are facing an election without the Voting Rights Act’s full safeguards. In recent years, we’ve seen voting rights under attack as discriminatory voting rules are rolled out across the nation.

We are making progress towards letting every eligible voter have access to the ballot box, but we cannot stop now. Add your name and stand up for voting rights today.

These discriminatory laws disproportionately affect minority communities. Our nation is one of the oldest democracies in the world, and yet there are some who are proud to undermine our right to vote.

We need to stand up and demand the preservation of the Voting Rights Act for generations to come. Add your name now to say: EVERY eligible voter deserves to cast a ballot.

Thank you for standing with me.

Lisa

I have delinked the links (in bold) b/c they don’t take you to a petition. Or a letter to elected officials.  They take you directly to a Vote Blue campaign donation page for Lisa Blunt Rochester (they already have the final four digits of my number from previous contributions), no mention of voting rights whatsoever.  So, if you wanted to add your voice to supporting the Voting Rights Act, the links will not enable you to do so. The only action you can take is to give a contribution to LBR.  Pretty sneaky, IMHO.  Damn sneaky, in fact.

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  1. Prop Joe says:

    To borrow from a cinematic classic, my response to this would be “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!”

  2. chris says:

    Amateur hour…I would have expected better from the Lisa I know.
    Instead, they listen to the clown , high paid, out of state consultants

  3. Bane says:

    Don’t see a problem. Not like the landing page automatically deducts money from your bank account. You are sent to the page, if you want to donate, then do it, if you don’t, don’t.

    Its 4 weeks left in the race and you Townsend folks are calling foul on the fact that a campaign email about a platform issue leads to a contribution page? Oh god noooo? What’s next? She knocks on your door, looking like a neighbor asking to borrow sugar, and then she has the nerve to ask you to vote for her? THE AUDACITY!!!

    Chillax Chris…. I highly doubt out of state consultants waste their time with weekly contribution emails. Furthermore, the crap about out of state groups…. EMILY’S List, Planned Parenthood, and the Congressional Black Caucus are pretty big for liberals. You Townsend guys sure you want to keep crapping on them….solely because they didn’t support your guy?

  4. cassandra_m says:

    It’s a stupid approach and one that counts on how people expect to interact with links (to get to more information related to that HTML text) to capture them for donations, rather than education on Voting Rights issues. It’s an approach that teaches your readers to stop clicking on your links — unless you see the DONATE HERE link and you want do that. Fake links just tell people that you aren’t trustworthy.