Comments on: Is the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in the Business of Reporting News or Manufacturing It?

By: Bruno Wolff III

Bruno Wolff III — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:04:12 +0000

I know that politicians carved themselves an exception to the Do not call list rules. That doesn’t make it right (only legal) to call numbers on that list. Politicians that do so make it clear that they don’t care about your interests, only theirs.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 05:25:36 +0000

Quick fact-check for anyone interested: do-not-call lists do not apply to political campaigns.

By: Bruno Wolff III

Bruno Wolff III — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:30:29 +0000

This is drifting a bit, but by the fall elections I should have asterisk (or openpbx) running and if I can get my wife to let me, people will have to dial extensions to get our phone to ring. This should stop auto dialers from getting through.
P.S. Ben, I voted for you for U.S. Senate (writing you in in the final election). If I had known about your $1 donation campaign fundraising in time, I would have donated. I’ll be keeping an eye out if I hear you are running for office again.

By: Ben Masel

Ben Masel — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:58:53 +0000

I got an official, identified robocall from the Ziegler Campaign, Tommy’s voice. Not “negative.”

By: Bruno Wolff III

Bruno Wolff III — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:57:57 +0000

While I didn’t get a call from Ziegler’s campaign, I didn’t like her as a candidate either. Besides the phone calls, the attack ads run by or on behalf of both Clifford and Ziegler were over the top and didn’t have much to do with supreme court justices jobs.
I ended up writing in Sommers.

By: xoff

xoff — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:02:33 +0000

Bruno: I got several autocalls from WMC for Ziegler, plus a couple from Wis. Right to Life. One of the WMC calls used Clifford's own voice in a clip saying she was not a judge. But I was not fooled into thinking Clifford was endorsing Ziegler. Guess I'm smarter than Engler. What was reported in the original JS online story, but not in the one that ran today in the paper and online, is that Engler said he was a Ziegler supporter and that he hung up before it got to the disclaimer to say who paid for it. My take.

By: Bruno Wolff III

Bruno Wolff III — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:24:41 +0000

Didn’t I tell you recently that I wasn’t voting for Clifford because her campaign used an automated calling machine to leave a message on my answering machine. I believe that only politicians are allowed to do that (other groups are excepted to have humans do this even if you are on the do not call list) and politicians that care more about winning than doing what’s right, aren’t going to get my vote.
In my case though, I don’t remember the MSJ being listed as a supporter. But I got the call before the primary.