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- From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
- Subject: Re: How much does your congressman know about you?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.202547.3092@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:25:47 GMT
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- In article <C16nDt.FJ0@news.cso.uiuc.edu> kkopp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (koppenhoefer kyle cramm) writes:
- > Your congressman will be glad to see that his efforts are working.
- >Well, on you atleast. The only reason that your representitive has such
- >good files on you is so that they can win re-election ( the only thing
- >most congressmen really care about ). The records are used to target
- >specific mailing to you. This mailings are the key tool in winning re-election,
- >and they are done in a dubouis manner. Whatever is important to you, as
- >determined by your backgound, will be highlighted in the mailings you receive.
- >
- > It is not a genuine concern for 'constituents' backgrounds and
- > beliefs' which drives the file keeping and mailing, but a desire to stay
- >in office for as long as they wish to be there.
-
- And why do you think that challengers aren't able to purchase the exact
- same data? It's out there on the market. I can verify that by the mailings
- I've gotten from all sorts of folk who have nothing to do with Congress.
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