Last night I received a robocall from the office of San Diego's Congresswoman Susan Davis, inviting me to join a public townhall teleconference in progress. It told to just remain on the line to be automatically joined to the conference, or to press 2 to opt-out of any future calls. How great is that?
I stayed on the line and joined, to be treated to a few disappointing call-in questions (and Ms. Davis' responses) before my cordless phone lost reception from only 25 feet away (a 5.8 GHz Uniden with new batteries). Sadly, it's status quo for the phone, call reception seems rather unreliable in my urban abode.
The robocall recording had never given me a callback number (or option), and I don't pay for caller ID on my landline, so I had no way to call back into the teleconference. I could have tried *69, but I wondered what charges I would end up paying for that, if it would have even worked. I tried a quick Google search, but didn't find any information about the town hall teleconference on her official web site. I was getting ready to go out anyway, so I gave up. Ah well, it was cool while it lasted.
Kudos to Susan Davis for going to great lengths to interact with her constituents! Now, if only they could find a better way to filter out the paranoid wackos and senile old ladies.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
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