Hey, congressman Allen, what's your position on the Do Not Call List?

(The following was written on the evening of February 27th)

As I type this I'm listening to a phone call.

Apparently Tom Allen's office (either his congressional office or his campaign, I don't know which) called me with a recording announcing that I was being immediately connected to a "town hall meeting" conference call with the Congressman in progress.

I'm now listening to him answering questions (screened, of course) from other people on the call. If they are using some demographic data, or are just calling people randomly in the 1st district.

It probably is the 1st district only because they just promoted his ".gov" web address which means this isn't the senate campaign running this. Which of course means, our tax dollars are paying for this telemarketing town hall.

I really don't like unsolicited phone calls. Too many scams make use of them. (insert stock joke about big government being a scam here.)

Now the concept of a conference call town hall meeting is actually a good idea. But not trying to press-gang people into it. If I was feeling more subversive, I'd see if I could get a question about the Do Not Call List. But I just don't have it in me.

I know that the Do Not Call List is just for commercial activity, but you'd think that they'd respect the wishes of a potential voter.