OT Paying for signatures

Might I ask Tina...getting signature for what?

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Political petitions. He mentioned a couple, which he agreed with, but I don't remember what they were.

Tina

Would it surprise you to know that I know someone who travels around the country collecting signatures for a company who does this? He makes 50k/year. Barbara Dream Master

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your future plans. Woody Allen

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Barbara Otterson :

] Would it surprise you to know that I know someone who travels ]around the country collecting signatures for a company who does ]this? He makes 50k/year.

there's a job i need!

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

(Jewelry) newest creations: ----------- The measure of the menace of a man is not what hardware he carries, but what ideas he believes.-- Jeff Jordan

There's a job Starlia needs too!

Only if you like living in hotel rooms 3 or 4 weeks at a time. You have to go where they're trying to get issues on a ballot for it to be full-time work. The company pays for the room, but still..... Barbara Dream Master

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your future plans. Woody Allen

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Barbara Otterson :

]Only if you like living in hotel rooms 3 or 4 weeks ]at a time. You have to go where they're trying to ]get issues on a ballot for it to be full-time work. ]The company pays for the room, but still.....

but . . . i could sell this place. pack every thing i need [beads] into a motor home. and get paid to travel? wowzer!

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

(Jewelry) newest creations: ----------- The measure of the menace of a man is not what hardware he carries, but what ideas he believes.-- Jeff Jordan

I believe you. After all there are paid lobbyist who may or may not strongly believe in doing the job they are well paid for.

Tina

No reflections intended on your son, Tina, but I'm firmly against that way of getting signatures. Oregon voters banned the 'payment per signature' method for political petitions in November, 2002 because of the incredible amount of fraud it inspired - and as a side issue, the aggressive manner in which the practice was carried out. As Barbara mentioned in her post, people can make an incredible amount of money doing this but they don't have to have any emotional or ethical attachment to the issue they're getting signatures for. And they're often from out of state too and have no stake in the outcome of either the petitioning process or the vote on the question. Give me the old time political activist any day!

On the other hand, jobs of any kind are too often hard to find...

Mj

My feeling too. He's quite the idealist, so I'm not worried in his case, but it sure smacks of buying votes.

Tina