Feeling chipper with the Chipster
We noted our birthday a couple of weeks ago. Apparently word of this reached one of our solons, who took time out to send us a card, which arrived at Blog Central yesterday:
Not only that, but he's paying attention:
This sort of thing cheers us up no end.
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Comments (12)
But yours was signed "The Shields Family" mine was more personal it was signed "Chip." I guess he likes me better, as Tommy Smothers used to say.
Posted by phil | January 31, 2013 8:00 AM
Am I the only one who thinks this is creepy?
Posted by Ex-bartender | January 31, 2013 8:52 AM
Am I the only one who thinks this is creep?"
Nope! Taxpayers are paying for the card and Shields loses my vote.
Posted by lw | January 31, 2013 9:03 AM
That's not exactly what I meant lw, but I get your point too.
I assume Jack and Phil have not joined the Chip Shields Birthday Club, so where did he get their DOB? Presumably from voter registration info. Is sending out disingenuous election porn (sorry Chip, that's what it is) the proper use of this data? I find it rather invasive and stalker-ish. It reeks of Big Brother, IMO.
Posted by Ex-bartender | January 31, 2013 9:41 AM
How about "he got the birthday" from this BLOG?? I think the whole thing is kind of adorable and hilarious.
Posted by sally | January 31, 2013 10:08 AM
Did he get Phil's birthday HERE too, Sally? And that looks like a generic PRE-PRINTED birthday card. It's doubtful he had it printed up just for Jack. Geesh.
Posted by Ex-bartender | January 31, 2013 11:15 AM
Yep The Chippster Sent both my wife and me a big Happy birthday postcard, we both thought it creepy too. The DOB most likely came from the nosy Driver's License Department in the great state of Salem.
Posted by phil | January 31, 2013 11:32 AM
Point taken, Ex-bartender. But he obviously looks at the blog. "Don't call it election porn" was a personal message -- probably kind of a lie, too, generally speaking. :=)
Posted by sally | January 31, 2013 1:56 PM
Expect more creepy. Once these public servants / Hollywood-for-the-ugly crowd get way into mashing up FB data with public databases etc they'll be able to really creep you out. Big Data meets your neighborhood city/state politician, who like Chip, is just trolling for votes and does not really wannabe your friend.
Posted by Harry | January 31, 2013 3:57 PM
Oh, don't over-think it -- sometimes a nice gesture is just that.
Posted by Old Zeb | January 31, 2013 4:53 PM
The certainty that taxpayer funds are being used comes from where, exactly?
Posted by Cary | January 31, 2013 5:52 PM
In the late 90s, a friend of mine was in the California state Assembly. I accompanied him to a seminar for elected officials at the Asilomar Conference Center. One of the meetings touched on this very subject – sending birthday greetings to constituents. It was suggested that maybe the birthday greetings could be in the form of “proclamations,” which could be framed. For example, declaring “Jack Bogdanski Day” or something like that.
Maybe this practice has only now reached Oregon.
Posted by Pamela Fitzsimmons | January 31, 2013 10:23 PM