Question about Giving to Politicians

Factual Questions
1

Is there any way to give to politicians and not get put on a list that means you get called constantly ever after? I suspect that the answer to my question is no, because of the requirement that all donations be reported, but I thought I would ask anyway.

When I give to charities, I get an occasional call. Mostly I get mailings. When I give to politicians on the other hand, the calls never stop. I also get emails almost daily (I can ignore these, its the calls that bother me).

While giving money to politicians has always rankled me, I also believe it to be important to the political process (sadly, it is likely more important that your vote).

However, I do not mean this to be a debate about giving to politicians, I would simply like to be able to do it without forever being on a call list. Any way to do this?

2

  1. Don’t tell them your phone number!

  2. Ask them to note that you don’t want phone calls.
    (The Minnesota DFL database has flags for do-not-call, do-not-mail, and do-not-email. They even have tailored versions of those flags; so you can allow your local legislator to phone you, but not phone calls from other general party fundraisers. And we do pay attention to those flags! Obviously – we don’t want to waste our volunteer time on calling people who don’t want phone calls!)

3

Contact your local party and tell them you don’t want to be called. The politicians get their lists from the parties, most likely, and don’t want to lose your vote by aggravating you.

The major parties invest a lot of time and money into building massive databases of registered voters. It’s public information, so you;re not going to get pulled off their list altogether.