If you already have set this up for a previous campaign it’s just the minutes.

Does your technical expertise in the area of programming telephone systems allow you give us an idea of what it might cost to put together a robocall campaign like this?

I’m up to 8 anonymous calls now, on my cell. The type of message, the frequency, the non-local origin of the calls, and the anonymity has a very negative impact, and at this point I believe I will vote contrary to their suggestion. That means a yes vote on the charter amendment.

As much as it pains me, if the calls are political, they are exempt from fines and personal recovery you could receive from non-political calls. That being said, when I sent a demand to one political organization, my calls stopped. I did not recover monies, but I did stop the problem.

The letter I sent to the organization is linked in comment #6.

Bottom line: they are specifically exempt. That being said, you can always sue anyway and who knows.

Thank you “Ann Arbor Chronicle” for helping me to know some of the background on this!

I appreciate the continued updates on the phone calls — I haven’t a actually received any, something I attribute to starting with a “clean” cell phone number a few years ago and signing up for the no-call registry at the same time.

Wonder if the tone of the calls has changed in response to feedback they’ve heard?

When you say that you “have voted,” it’s probably worth noting that what you mean is that you’ve voted by absentee ballot. (Right?) That will surely seem pedantic, and I only bring it up because there might be a random reader or two who read that and think, “Oh, dang, I missed the election … oh, well, never mind.”

Like the previous robocalls, this one failed to mention that it is being paid for by companies that charge the city money to run these notices in newspapers, and who stand to profit directly from a particular outcome of the vote.

I have voted “yes” on both proposals. If a particular industry profits from a City charter requirement, fine. If that industry has a trade group, fine. If they want to encourage me to vote a particular way on an issue, fine. But the minute they fail to disclose WHY they’re campaigning so heavily – that they have a monetary interest in the outcome – they’ve lied to me, and I’m very likely to vote against them.