Just a self-serving comment to try and get this post into the "recent activity" list.

Wow, integrity in politics!

(But the link has a typo...)

Looks like the right link is here (no final "h" in the URL).

Sounds like some real heroes to me, by the way. Good stuff. Thanks for noting this, John.

Hi Guys - thanks for noticing. I've repaired the link.

I have nothing but disdain for these daily robocalls. I hang up the second I hear the hint of a political recording and all of them have been from my own party. It feels like invasion of privacy to me and the need for a land line is diminising rapidly. Applause and respect for these telemarketers that had the good sense and balls to walk off the job. Enough already!

I'm just hoping that the sleaze works against the McCain campaign. The country cannot afford to continue on this path. I'm so impressed that these people stood up to the creeps.

WOW! The US working class rediscovers the walkout as a means of POLITICAL struggle - not just struggle over wages & benefits - and in a non-union workplace, no less. The scale is very small, and the issue is not earthshaking, but I applaud these folks for refusing to work when they found out they were going to be required to tell lies to their fellow voters.

If only the folks who did the clerical work needed to close all those subprime mortgages had done the same, maybe we wouldn't be in this pickle today! And imagine the possibilities - workers refusing to make or sell unsafe products; refusing to deny clearly meritorious insurance claims; refusing to film or print false advertisements; refusing to construct unsafe buildings; refusing to load weapons onto ships and planes - the list goes on.

We have the power, folks, but we have to USE it - and voting alone will never be enough. Voting with your feet - by marching them straight out of the workplace - now that's another story!

Robocalls are indeed a blight. We frequently answer them an djust put the phone aside without hanging up, hoping to spare a few other people that day.

We don't have a home phone, and Oregon is so solidly for Obama that we probably wouldn't have gotten robo-calls anyway, but I *did* get one recently, on my cell phone, in Spanish. Somebody bought the wrong list....

I was delighted when I saw that news. Gives me hope.

Sorry, I know I saw this on the feed yesterday but I swear I thought I commented already.

Yes, definitely deserves a remake of Bud Light's "Real American Heroes" commercial. Thanks for the timely post, John, and sorry I did not get here sooner.

Rated/appreciated/albeit belatedly.

S'OK Bill, so many posts, so little time.

I have only received one robocall, for a guy running for attorney general. Lucky to be in a blue state