Election Correction

 Political candidates need to correct their ignorances.  Why would I want to receive recorded phone calls from someone running for office? Do they think I will be swayed to vote for them hearing a voice yapping on and on about how marvellous they are? Not without details. Not without questions. Voters aren't children. Why bother my day with a ringing call, that when I pick it up, I hear a political voice yakking on and on about how miraculously he or she will change everything for the better? Without details, these are fairy tales. Nor do I vote by looking at signage or posters with mug shots on them. These expensive things are a waste of money. If you want to knock on my door and speak to me in person, I would very much appreciate that effort. If you debate issues with your fellow candidates on media, I might be impressed with how you handle yourself in a debate which is what happens in the parliament buildings. Talking isn't action but it is the game played.  It seems that politicians think we voters are voting fingers without brains. Give me your personal presence. Give me print. Give me in the print, your platform that shows me your tactics to make things happen if and when you are elected. Provide facts and figures, and don't make promises without them. I want to see your research, hear your honesty in how you will carry out what you say and believe. Give me facts not fantasy, not pretty pictures and slogans. The bigger and more expansive the promise, the more proof I need of how you will do right and find the money to do what you say, when governments apparently work in deficit. I need hope, not dreams. I need to hear, not criticism of your fellow candidates or what happened in the past, but exactly how you plan to make changes that are advantages to me personally, if and when you are elected. One political acifianado called me and when I told her at the outset, I had no intention of sending  money, and she went on to ask me the same question for a donation, four times in different ways. No means no. My feeling is that if you want to run for office, you pay. It's your bag. Carry it.