cross-posted to Daily Kos
When Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman was running for president in 2003, I started getting e-mails from his campaign regularly. I had never donated to him, but I figured that he must have bought the Iowa Democratic Party’s e-mail list before he decided to bypass the Iowa caucuses.
At some point during Lieberman’s campaign against Ned Lamont in 2006, I unsubscribed from the list.
So I was surprised to find the following message from “Joe Lieberman” (sending address “info@joe2006.com”) in my in-box this morning, with a subject line of “Opting back in to the Joe Lieberman mailing list”:
You have requested to be opted back into the Joe Lieberman email list.
To confirm your subscription, please click this link or paste it into your browser:
(https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:OptIn/state:Confirm/signupId:6421/mid:4121.85946391)
If you do not wish to be added to our list, no further action is required.
What a lie. I never requested to be added back on his e-mail list, and I never would do so now that he is actively campaigning for John McCain.
He is probably just trying to build a bigger list so that he can make the case against our eventual nominee.
Talk about a guy who learned all the wrong lessons in life.
Anyone else out there get the same e-mail?
UPDATE: To clarify, this e-mail came to my other account (the one that uses my real name), not to the address that is published in my profile here and at various other blogs (desmoinesdem AT yahoo.com).
At Daily Kos, commenter josephk says
the email, as has been described and the process through which it found its way into the diarists inbox … looks more like a ‘live email address confirmation’ for a specific demographic
Live confirmed email addresses that have a certain demographic profile (in this case a Liebermann supporter) are of much more value than just a random list that is 2 years out of date
there is nothing ‘dark and nefarious’ as the diarist suggests, nor is it as innocuous as You suggest
it is just simple email marketing
Well, yes, I get e-mail marketing messages all the time, but they don’t (and shouldn’t) start with the deceptive claim that I asked to be opted into their list.