I’ve had multiple reports over the last week that South Dakota Democrats have taken to sending SMS Spam messages as a recruitment tool to get people to run for office.
The curious messages started popping up last week when one correspondent sent me a snapshot of the text that his daughter received:
The note accompanying it, indicated his “daughter just received this text message. She is not politically active in any way she gets this text out of the blue. They must be really desperate.”
This was followed up a couple days later with another message, with a similar take on candidate recruitment:
You can see the disdainful reply they received.
With state and local races quickly coming into the forefront over the next 60 days, I suppose for the Democrats who have long been in dire straits, they have little to lose by sending text messages out to random people to try to get them to run for office.
God knows the traditional methods of recruiting candidates have largely failed them over the years.
South Dakota Democrats. Making 2024 “The Year of the Rando.”
Got one of those exact messages the other day. My reply left no doubt I was not interested.
Read an ad on craig’s list and reddit.
They’ve been sending these for a while. I got mine a month ago.
I know of two people that go these…one doesn’t even live in South Dakota and the other isn’t even a registered democrat…
i think they just got some text list from the dark web or something. i just deleted mine, seemed phake to me.
I received one as well. I offered to run for a price. The text I received back from Dan was “I’m a volunteer and I don’t get paid”. Apparently they want you to to get involved, but there isn’t a compensation for it. I spent the next couple of hours sending them crap texts, mostly memes from FB, until they blocked me. I guess I was bored as a newly retired guy and it was entertaining for me.
LOLLOL i have some acquaintances who are Dems. They were so giddy the last few cycles when they got these texts. “yeah, I was asked by the party to run but I didn’t want to.”
Sure, Jan.
I received one about 2 years ago, I’m sure after the short texting back and forth that the person who sent it is probably still talking to a therapist.