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PG was minding his business at 3:00 pm, 09/08/18, when the phone rang. It was Chris, with 20/20 Insight. The voice asked if PG would like to take a five minute survey. At 3:09, the last keypad button was pushed. PG’s emotional buttons were pushed a few minutes before the call ended.
The call started normally. Are you likely to vote in the upcoming election? What is your opinion of Republican Brian Kemp, and Democrat Stacey Abrams? To answer, you push a number on a touch tone phone. There is a lot of pulling the phone off your ear, to look at the keypad, and choose the appropriate button. After a while, this can be annoying. The correct answer for most of the demographic questions is NOYB. This is found at the end of a long list of options.
It is a cliche of phone calls that the third thing you hear is what the call is about. Robocall surveys work the same way. The third topic here was the race for district 81 of the Georgia House. The players are Democratic Incumbent Scott Holcomb, and Republican Challenger Ellen Diehl. It will soon become apparent that @RepScottHolcomb is paying for this robocall.
PG received another call from Chris at 20/20 Insight. It was in support of Sally Harrell. She is running for the Georgia Senate, from district 40. The pattern is the same. You start with the headline race. Then you move on to the race sponsoring the ad. At some point a series of statements are read, and you are asked to respond to them. The statements are positive about one candidate, and negative about the other. It is obvious what is going on.
Robocalls are part of the political game now. They are despised by many voters, and yet many candidates still use them. It is like the strategy used by Nike to sell shoes. You will upset people who are offended when their ritual patriotism is disrespected. These consumers should be offset by the shoe customers who enjoy the exploitation support for their social justice jihad. The problem is, many people support the kneelers, but respect the patriots. Millions of consumers are tired of having their chain pulled over this manufactured controversy. Nike is smirking all the way to the bank.
What does Nike have to do with voters? Elections are another commodity. @RepScottHolcomb has made a calculated decision. The amount of voters that will be positively influenced by this robocall will offset those that are angered by it. John Q. Public’s peace of mind is not considered. The offended voter is collateral damage.
What made yesterday’s call such a trust buster was the negative statements about @iDiehl4Georgia. Chris said that Ms. Diehl was a fanatic supporter of Donald Trump, who “… lives w/ life-size cutout of Trump & talking Trump doll.” The text is from the twitter feed of @RepScottHolcomb. In other words, Rep. Holcomb paid for this ad.
There are a lot of people who don’t like Donald Trump right now. *Trump supporter* is considered an insult, and sometimes justification for violent assault. Evidently, Rep. Holcomb thinks it will help him get re-elected to call his opponent a supporter of the President. The fact that Rep. Holcomb is a well liked incumbent, who could easily run on his record, apparently is not good enough. The Georgia House of Representatives has nothing to do with Donald Trump. Opinions about the POTUS have no bearing on the job of representing the 81st district. This is name calling, and mud slinging politics. Because someone supports an unpopular person, who is President of the United States. So much for respecting the office.
It is incredibly disappointing to lose this much respect for someone. PG feels that he has been played for a fool. Scott Holcomb is no longer the much respected Representative from his district. Scott Holcomb is just another cynical politician. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. The photographer was Russell Lee, in Kansas, in August 1939.

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