Surprise text message from Sanders campaign...

[cynatnite]

My husband forwarded me a text message that he received from the Sanders campaign asking for support.

Thing is, he's never signed up for anything like that or with any political campaign. He's never signed up for anything that allows for text messages except for our cell phone bill. That's it.

He was really put off by this mostly because he doesn't care for politics and he felt is was rather intrusive.

Is this what the Sanders' campaign does now? Send out spam text messages?

[redstatebluegirl]

1. Well he is a "democrat" so the DNC most likely shared their list with them.

[cynatnite]

4. He's not registered with the DNC or any other organization...

We don't get why he got this.

[yesphan]

2. I got one from

Bloomberg. Don't know how they got my number.

[George II]

3. He's got that "Bernie App" that encourages followers to send them contact information....

....of their friends.

If you have any friends who are avid Sanders fans then chances are one of them might have sent your information to them.

I don't know much about texts, can they be blocked?

[cynatnite]

6. It's possible that's how it happened...

He put a block on them already. It really aggravated him because he felt it was intrusive.

[patricia92243]

7. I think if you reply STOP they will be blocked.

[customerserviceguy]

19. I block all texts to my phone

Got something to say to me? Call me, and if I want to talk to you, I'll pick up. Otherwise, you get my YouMail, which I have to thank someone here for informing me about.

[left-of-center2012]

5. Lists of voters?

I think they're public.

[MineralMan]

10. Most of those don't have phone number data.

More likely it's from signing up for something online and supplying your phone number. Those lists are for sale. That's why I don't sign up for anything or make donations online through middleman websites. They're just collection points for your contact information.

[MineralMan]

8. My wife has been getting those texts.

I haven't.

That's probably because pretty much all of my signing up for things has been with my landline number. That is now disconnected. I haven't given out my cell number to anyone in any way involved with politics, and don't plan to.

My wife is annoyed, because she gets more than one text every day from someone pushing Bernie. She's not going to vote for Bernie. She has texted that back to those texters, which stirs them up to send even more texts.

It's an election year.

[Gravitycollapse]

9. Literally every campaign does this. I've gotten them from Sanders, Bloomberg, Yang, etc.

Kind of surprised you haven't gotten any at all the last few election cycles. It's standard procedure now.

[TDale313]

11. The texting has become a big thing

I’ve received them from many of the campaigns (mostly candidates I am supporting or have supported in the past)

I have no idea how the Sanders campaign got your husband’s number- but I do recall that last time they would ask supporters for contact info of friends or family who they should reach out to. Not a fan of this practice, but that’s possibly what happened.

[Codeine]

12. While I'm not a fan of "all sides do it"

in this case they literally all do it. I’ve gotten texts for Bernie, Pete, Elizabeth, and Joe so far this cycle. I don’t respond to any of them.

[krissey]

24. I have not had a text from anyone else. Emails flood. No text, but Sanders.

[democrattotheend]

13. I've gotten many texts from them too

But I volunteered for him in my state in 2016, so I am not surprised by it. As I mentioned in another thread, everyone who has texted me has been perfectly polite when I tell them I am not supporting him this year in the primaries. Nothing like the stories on the news.

I think I have gotten texts from other candidates in the past whom I have never volunteered for. Every time you sign up for a candidate's list or something with a Democratic group, they usually have something where you consent to your info being shared with other candidates or groups. I get on e-mail lists constantly for candidates I never signed up for. It's annoying but it's the nature of the beast.

[cynatnite]

18. He wouldn't complain had he signed up for something like that...

but he did not. He stays away from all things political...

Well, other than me.

Seriously, I would not use his phone number for this stuff because I know it would piss him off. He gets enough grief about politics with his own family which is why he wants nothing to do with it other than when he goes inside a voting booth.

[CentralMass]

14. For those of us registered with his campaign, we get regular texts.

To my knowledge you must text the campaign a keyword to register to recieve text messages from the campaign . I did so in 2016 at the mega-rally on Portland, Oregon.

[cynatnite]

16. My husband did not register with any organization...

I'm registered with the DNC and I've never gotten a text.

It was suggested above that there's an app for the Sanders' campaign. We think it was a friend or family member that offered his phone number.

[CentralMass]

21. That could be it.

[krissey]

23. Not true

[WhiskeyGrinder]

15. Lists get shared and sold all the time.

[cynatnite]

17. He's not on any list, political or otherwise...

He gets texts regarding our cellphone account and that's all he's ever signed up for.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

20. He's not registered to vote?

[krissey]

22. I got a text too. I am very particular about who texts me. Texts has me stop what I am doing.

I did a bit of lecture not to invade my space in this manner, then stated I had no interest at all in Sanders.

I was bothered too.

[msongs]

25. sanders campaign is going after more $, that awful stuff that is bad bad bad except

when its for his campaign

[MarianJack]

26. I got one also.

I didn't sign up for it.

I didn't support him in 2016.

I don't support him now.

I don't like him.

I don't trust him.

If he's nominated I'll vote for him but he would lose in a coast to coast landslide that would make 1972 look like 1960.

No thank you.

RESIST!

[SWBTATTReg]

27. You raise a good point, about the intrusive texts. In my case, I made a 'one time' donation ...

to one of the candidates on Feb. 8, 2020, and by today, Feb. 18, 2020, I have rec'd 70 emails from this organization, 70!!! This single handily is the most email I receive all year!! I'm tempted to out them, but in all fairness, I won't ID them, but I'm really kind of pissed a little bit. It's a little much.