How did Ted Cruz / The Weekly Standard get my email address? (Vanity)

Me | 4-1-2015

[Citizen Zed]

I like most of the policies Cruz is pursuing, but I feel uncomfortable receiving a signed email from him to an email address I only share with family asking for money. What's up with that?

[mountainlion]

Someone sells e-mail addresses to groups.

[MeganC]

Some one of your contacts probably signed up for something on Facebook and they ended up sharing your contact info via Facebook.

Happens to me quite a bit.

[rstrahan]

If you use Gmail, Yahoo mail, etc, they sell the mailing lists. They can bounce your name against your search priorities (FR for example) and sell a list of people likely to support a conservative candidate. Same if you searched liberal sites such as Mother Jones, Democrat Umderground, etc.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

It’s no uncommon for candidates to “rent” lists complied by the RNC or from candidates from previous campaigns.
I still get appeals that contain a mishmash of my name and wife’s name from 2006...

[CGASMIA68]

google sucks yahoo sucks.actually they all suck

[Rusty0604]

You have an email exclusively for family members asking for money?

[thackney]

Sorry about that, I thought you wouldn’t mind.

And I still need another $50....

[Georgia Girl 2]

Well if you can’t sleep at night over it you can request that they take you off the list. Its usually somewhere in the body of the email.

[Jewbacca]

[Citizen Zed]

That’s true too. LOL

[JRandomFreeper]

Some people specialize much more than others.

/johnny

[Tijeras_Slim]

"I told him."

[Citizen Zed]

I’ve tried to unsubscribe from The Weekly Standard many times. Do I have to call Bill Kristol?

[MinuteGal]

I started to get the emails last week, also....now, just about every other day, as a matter of fact.

I, too, am curious as to how his campaign got my email addy. The web-sited source at the bottom appears legit.

Since it's Ted, I really don't care...just nosey, that's all.

I've been on my congressman's e-mailing list for a long time......I'll bet our elected pols share lists with each other routinely, hmmmm.......

Leni

[G Larry]

You have a special e-mail for your family to ask you for money?

[Citizen Zed]

The family even texts me for money. I’m glad no one else does.

[USS Alaska]

I like most of the policies Cruz is pursuing, but I feel uncomfortable receiving a signed email from him to an email address I only share with family asking for money. What's up with that?

If you use a public email server {unlike hildabutch} anyone with semi-technical skills, can get your email address.

Why are you "uncomfortable", because you just found out that your email address is not private or because Cruz axed you for $10?

[Georgia Girl 2]

Couldn’t hurt. :-)

[Defiant]

Jim Robinson assumes that anyone here would want to give to Ted Cruz. Now go do it! But only after you give to the Freepathon.