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I just got suppressed. In travis county.
This sux.
The funny part of the whole ordeal is that I feel like I wasnt actually a target, just an innocent bystander that the Republicans didnt quite think about. Granted, Im a progressive and a minority, but I make good money and am usually kept out of the firing lines of the Repubs, but this time I dont think they thought all the way through this tactic (sure, they dont think through most of their tactics, but this could bite them in the ass).
You see, I am part of the new younger generation that grew up with computers and I rarely ever check my regular snail mail. The only reason I checked it today was to get my allergy medication. Awaiting me with my medicine was a nice letter from Nelda Wells Spears that stated that I have been put in Suspended status because "2 consecutive mailings have neen returned to our office..". The best part was this line: "The registration deadline date for the November 2, 2010 election is Monday, October 4th", today is Oct 9. Wonderful, now I cant vote. I dont know how many of you have lived in an apt, but if you have ever received any registered mail to it you know that the Post Office wont deliver it to your door and they wont leave it at the Apartment Office, so you are forced to drive down to the Post Office to pick it up. If you are like me and work constantly, you usually dont have time to do this. This leads me to the backfiring part of the tactic. I happen to be a progressive, but my apt is in Mccaul's district and I am quite sure I am not the only out here trying to be fully paperless, so what I am wondering is, how many Republicans just got their records purged also?
Most of my friends rarely check their mail because they are also trying to be paperless and since most new housing developments have community mailboxes, it's even more difficult to check the mail on a regular basis and missing some of this voter reg paperwork is quite easy.
How many of you have been suppressed recently?
--jake
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