TDs harassed on their mobiles over the weekend, have you any sympathy?

PCPhoto

professore wrote: »

What possible reason could you have to need to be able to ring your politician ASAP that is more important than the problems our country has at the moment or that couldn't be handled by some other government body / civil servant ????

ah you know ... the usual - :rolleyes: - talk to the gardai to get off speeding fines or other offences, get a letter drafted up to give a good character reference before the courts...... a couple of land areas need to be rezoned...politicians can make it happen !!! (at least they could in the past)

Everyone needs to have a good relationship with their local councillor/TD

professore

professore wrote: »

Bull****. Do you see Barack Obama or any credible politicians doing this anywhere else ?

Well if you look across the water to the UK who have a similar parliamentary democracy to us a sizeable portion of the MPs time is spent in constituency work or clinics.
This mostly consists of the village attention seekers bending the MPs ear on various issues.

Elevator

humanji wrote: »

Thanks sweet cheeks, but I'm pointing out to those who think it's a great idea and think they'll get away with it that they can be traced. So all those who sent death threats will be shortly getting a knock on their door.

i was careful so as to not threaten anyone, or liable myself either

the cute hoors are smart enough to know when they can do ya for crossing a line.

I was angry enough to send them txts from my personal phone which is more than can be said for them.

I cannot believe the sympathy given to these absolute bastards and that there are people still believing "the pen is mightier than the sword"

give me a break,'Mary harness announces there's no money for cancer vaccine yet a few weeks later a new 10 miles stretch of road signed off for €10m, a few more weeks and there was suddenly €50m+ found when the pork got contaminated

these parasites should be kicked up and down the fcuking streets

Elevator

professore wrote: »

Bull****. Do you see Barack Obama or any credible politicians doing this anywhere else ?

Hugo Chavez? people can say what they like about the guy and some of it maybe right but he doesn't roll over to the yanky overlords!!

he does a slot on telly once a week answering questions from the public!

tommyhaas

Elevator wrote: »

yes and I'm sure the politicians who are too busy to do anything right have all the time in the world to read their emails,

can you see willie o dea or jackie Healy Rae working their emails. a pen and paper would be too much for these gombeens

a txt or 2 and a phonecall did in fact get straight to the intended target so all in all the leak was a job well done

let's hope it happens again and keeps happening

You'v talked about how dissatisfied you are with the performance of our politicans and thats fair enough. But you'v gone out of your way to disturb them from their work. How are they supposed to get any work done if they're continuously abused down the phone by the likes of yourself? How can they differenciate between an important work related call, and one from the likes of yourself? Im not defending the record politicans in this country, however sending abusive texts/making abusive calls is cowardly and childish, if you have a problem with them make your point either by letter/email or face to face. Dont be hiding behind annonomity and acting the hard man, keyboard warrior style

Biggins

My wife, my kids and myself are going to harassed with the bailout they have put on our heads for years/decades!

If anyone thinks I'm bothered for a few hours over their bloody phone... Not a ruddy chance!
Frankly, I know where I'd like to shove their phones!

Copper23

Elevator wrote: »

so it's come out about our beloved tds, meps etc received many phonecalls and txts after a leak of their private numbers last weekend.

those of you who got txts from me fcuking deserved them!

I wasn't the least bit surprised with the sudden barrage of private numbers that started calling fairly quick after that, oh and private numbers putting a 5 in front of my mobile number so as to by straight to my voicemail (how smart of some of you hahaha)

how do you feel about it and did you get to send any seasons greetings yourself?

Sternly worded text messages, there's nothing worse.

Noreen1

I can't believe that people have a problem with the public contacting their Public Representatives.

Fair enough, abusive texts are not a good idea - but I fail to see any reason why someone cannot contact their TD, and air their views.

If an employee fails to do their job, their employer tends to tell them so - why are TDs supposedly exempt?

Noreen

mikemac

I'm surprised at this story

Lots of public reps have their mobile phone number available on their leaflets and their website. Some have their home phone number too

And now suddenly they've been leaked?
Realy, it's been public knowledge for years

Unless some have other private numbers maybe, I'm not sure

Anyway it takes a thick skin to stand for election and a very strong chance of public rejection. Most fail in their first election.
They wouldn't be bothered over text messages.

scientific1982

I'm all for it OP, **** them.

Elevator

feelingstressed wrote: »

I'm surprised at this story

Lots of public reps have their mobile phone number available on their leaflets and their website. Some have their home phone number too

And now suddenly they've been leaked?
Realy, it's been public knowledge for years

Unless some have other private numbers maybe, I'm not sure

Anyway it takes a thick skin to stand for election and a very strong chance of public rejection. Most fail in their first election.
They wouldn't be bothered over text messages.

for people who weren't botheredthey were doing a lot of calling back, putting a 5 between the prefix (085/6/7) and your number gets you straight to voicemail which is what some of them were doing!!

the stupidity of someone recieving a txt from anonymous, then blocking their number to call you back to see who you are. as if I'd answer hello, youre through to blank blank, how may I help you today?

had a lovely little chat with Mary "completely useless at trade missions" Caughlin and I have to say that I would not be able to control myself in her presence! the balls on the woman would make me do the riverdance on her. the flipping cheek of her, demanding I give her my name,'ya sure Mary, I'm so sorry you had a hand at ruining the country while swanning off to trade missions etc (make sure you pick up some leaflets so you can look like you're working!!). blank blank is anam dom!!

they're all a pack of gee bags in the dail and we got to tell them so!!

boo fcuking who!!!

mikemac

Why would you call Mary Coughlan and not give your name?

If you are a constituent she'll listen to you or there are clinics you can go to

professore

Elevator wrote: »

Hugo Chavez? people can say what they like about the guy and some of it maybe right but he doesn't roll over to the yanky overlords!!

he does a slot on telly once a week answering questions from the public!

I have no problem with this ... in fact this would be great. What I have a problem with is people calling them 24-7 about local or personal issues.

professore

PCPhoto wrote: »

ah you know ... the usual - :rolleyes: - talk to the gardai to get off speeding fines or other offences, get a letter drafted up to give a good character reference before the courts...... a couple of land areas need to be rezoned...politicians can make it happen !!! (at least they could in the past)

Everyone needs to have a good relationship with their local councillor/TD

I know all this, I grew up in Brian Cowen's constituency so have seen it all.

I would agree that a councillor should be the main point of contact rather than the TD as he is more local.

Elevator

feelingstressed wrote: »

Why would you call Mary Coughlan and not give your name?

If you are a constituent she'll listen to you or there are clinics you can go to

I txt her and she rang me back a half hour later, she was thick as fcuk that she had to take in what was in the message!! I'm sure her personal assistant handles (deletes) any dodgy emails on her behalf.

Mary Caughlin is a fraud and is a tragic waste of a seat in the dail!! the way she looks down on any member outside of fianna fail is disgusting and she'd sit there laughing and joking at times (what have you got to laugh about you CNUT?!?, maybe laughing at how ye are still in power and yer complete bull**** is still fooling most!!)

most of the time she sits there with the blankest look on her face,

she was livid that I, a member of the public who should be licking her hole would not giver my name, guess what Mary? just cos ye got crazy resources at yer disposal doesn't mean ye control everything!!

this is the mentality of all our world leaders and they need to be stopped immediately!!!

Run_to_da_hills

00112984 wrote: »

Ultimately this is just going to cost tax-payers yet more money as we're the ones who'll pay for the new (i)phones and numbers these TDs are bound to demand.

I would certainly agree, the I phone 4 is quite expensive.

PeterIanStaker

They deserve all the harassment they get, because of the hames they've made of things.

mickydoomsux

Elevator wrote: »

I txt her and she rang me back a half hour later, she was thick as fcuk that she had to take in what was in the message!! I'm sure her personal assistant handles (deletes) any dodgy emails on her behalf.

Mary Caughlin is a fraud and is a tragic waste of a seat in the dail!! the way she looks down on any member outside of fianna fail is disgusting and she'd sit there laughing and joking at times (what have you got to laugh about you CNUT?!?, maybe laughing at how ye are still in power and yer complete bull**** is still fooling most!!)

most of the time she sits there with the blankest look on her face,

she was livid that I, a member of the public who should be licking her hole would not giver my name, guess what Mary? just cos ye got crazy resources at yer disposal doesn't mean ye control everything!!

this is the mentality of all our world leaders and they need to be stopped immediately!!!

You're a sad little coward.

Craebear

Delighted for them.