Bill Foster: Tell your friends to vote for me
ST. PETERSBURG -- Mayoral hopeful Bill Foster hasn't raised the most money.
He has yet to put out a campaign billboard, TV ad or even a mailer.
Good thing e-mail is free.
Foster sent out the following e-mail to supporters today:
To the Foster Family:
I hope you have had a wonderful and relaxing summer thus far. The Foster Campaign has been working hard, and we are well on our way toward victory in September.
Right now, I have a very important request. Mail-in ballots for the primary election were sent out today and will start arriving in mailboxes tomorrow and Friday. That means voting has officially begun.
Over the next several days, I need you to go into your Rolodex, contact lists, e-mail data base, church/club directories, etc. and contact as many of your St. Petersburg friends as you can to let them know why you are supporting Bill Foster for Mayor.
It shouldn’t take you that long, but it is very important. As for what to say, just give them a heads-up that mail-in ballots were sent, tell them why you chose to support my campaign, and then direct them to our website for more information: www.BillFosterForMayor.com.
If you are e-mailing rather than calling, you can download a PDF of my handout card to attach to your emails here: http://www.billfosterformayor.com/download/Foster_Palm_Card.pdf
Thank you for your help in this crucial grassroots effort … I am certain it will assure our success when the votes are finally counted on September 1.
Cristina Silva, Times staff writer
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Foster just robo called me! He was rambling on about his endorsement from the Police Ben... when I hung up. I hate robo calls!
Posted by: peetbog | July 15, 2009 at 06:48 PM
The phone number was local 7276982239?
Posted by: saintpetersblog | July 15, 2009 at 06:57 PM
I see his bilboards all over the place. I also recieved a call today.
Posted by: Come On Bill | July 15, 2009 at 07:16 PM
This afternoon my teen son and I got robocalls from Foster - on our cell phones.
The first ones ever, both at the same time(within a minute, certainly). It was both surprising and obnoxious - should campaigns be allowed to robocall cell phones and burn my minutes?
NO!
Posted by: Chris | July 15, 2009 at 07:34 PM
Bill Foster for MAYOR!
Posted by: Joe | July 15, 2009 at 08:57 PM
Bill Foster is a crook!
Posted by: The Past | July 15, 2009 at 09:28 PM
If you're getting robo calls on your cell phone, it probably means that you put your cell phone down as your main number when you registered to vote. Campaigns, as a rule, have no way of knowing whether the number they have for you is a cell phone or not.
Posted by: Campaign Manager | July 15, 2009 at 09:51 PM
...foster, the old school government hound dog clings to the failed adgenda of the past (because that is always the way things have been done...and he figures this is his turn at the throne). It is in the best interests of all concerned for him to retire...watch tv, sit on the couch, gain another thirty pounds and enjoy the fruits of his working life (ill gotten or not, the only sure things in life are death and taxes...all else is for conjecture). Some know when to retire and hang it up and allow others to carry on...some do not...and they make fools of themselves...this often depends on how full of themselves they are...
Posted by: awhitewolf | July 15, 2009 at 10:09 PM
"Come on Bill" - you have Foster confused with someone else - he has no billboards.
Posted by: Glasses? | July 15, 2009 at 10:42 PM
Cellphones have specific prefixes that are for cellphones only.
Any competent political consultant knows that you always run your phone list through a filter to delete out cellphones. I ran over a million phone numbers through filters last year.
Standard industry practice.
Next time, hire a political consultant who knows what he is doing.
Posted by: Robocalls 101 | July 16, 2009 at 12:49 AM
You do have poor consultants. LOL, but the good news is the other campaigns have even worse consultants...
Posted by: Dude | July 17, 2009 at 01:39 AM
I've seen plenty of cell phones having a 727 area code. Google Voice type of thing, maybe?
My problem with Foster is that he thinks creationism should be taught in the public schools. Besides being on the wrong side of the Scopes trial, he has shown an appalling ignorance of our US Constitution.
Everyone has a right to worship as they choose, and everyone has a right NOT to have any religion foisted upon them by local Government.
Posted by: Whoops! | July 17, 2009 at 04:02 AM
You know not what you speak of. Foster wants all students to be able to exercise their 1st amendment rights to free speech in school. In other words, in case this is to difficult a concept for you to understand, if a student wants to talk about alternatives to Darwinism they should be allowed to. At NOOOO time did Mr. Foster say he wanted creationism to be taught by the public school system.
Posted by: Whoops whooped | July 19, 2009 at 07:12 PM