Respect I, Because I Is Providers Pertinent Information!

Now I’m a forgiving guy. I make my share of spelling and grammar mistakes. If a typo or two slips into an e-mail or you botch the spelling of “received”, well, that happens. This, however, is bad. It shouldn’t have gone out, no matter if the candidate is a long-shot with no campaign budget at all. Political campaigns don’t have control over quite a lot, but they can always manage their social media contacts. Every one of those contacts — e-mail, Twitter, Facebook, or telephone — needs to be professional (though not necessarily deadly serious)

I have no doubt that whoever sent me this e-mail is (probably) young, and very earnest. He or she is probably new at this. My guess is this is his or her first shot as running media for a campaign and he or she wants to make a good impression. This didn’t do it. Not only is the grammar horrible, but it reads like the kind of blast-mail a poor new media person would send to several different blogs all at once. I get no sense that the person who sent this to me spend any time on The Shack except to find my address. I trashed the e-mail. I don’t have a ton of interest in talking to this person’s candidate, but I could be persuaded otherwise if he or she sent me a better e-mail. The next one should be more kind to the English language and give me some indication that the writer knows what I’m doing here. Heck, I bet with a little investigation, the campaign might even discover I have a podcast!