Pork Barreling, Stumping, Shaking Babies and Kissing Hands

Day one of my new political career.

There is a 3 week voting period beginning today and the voting is all done by a coded response on a private web site. Not hard and not inconvenient, in fact an easy process if you are a techie nerd. Admittedly you need a pic and shovel to get to the bowels of the Board web site to find the right link.

This morning, I decided to sent out a little note to my old and new office collegues informing them of how to and for whom to vote. I got back a flurry of supportive emails. By 10 am I had replied graciously to about 25 of them, taking the time to thank each one, even inquiring to the health of some of the senders.

Through the auspices of the election committee at the Board I was sanctioned to send a letter via the IT department to the entire membership of 5000. By 11 am I had another flurry of a 100 or so emails that came as replies. I tapped out grateful and pleasant reponses and encouraged them to tell everyone they knew.

 By noon the bing, bing, bing of incoming e-mails sounded like machine gun fire. Some of them wanting my stance on issues I had never heard of. I spent another couple of hours responding in the most light hearted and gracious manner I could muster under the constant racket of incoming e-mails.

I began to see a trend in my responses to what I saw as outrageous demands and self serving complaints and I became aware of a certain level of animosity in my answers. I was, as they say, quite at home to Mrs. Tetchy.

By mid afternoon I began to lose my patience and I stopped responding when my replies became terse and churlish.

Tomorrow another flurry of e-mails will come in as the Board won't send all 5000 at once and will torture me with a constant trickle.

I think I will create an automatic response which will respond to other automatic responses to an automatic mass e-mail.
Ahh politics, such a touchy feely business.
I have had a taste of it now and I hope my worthy opponents win.


A view from the deck to the west. This is an enormous amount of snow for us Calgarians. We had 10 or so cms the other day and now 15 cms on top of that...and more on the way.

 

 

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