Our invitation to Del. Joannou, returned to sender
By: Rob
Published On: 4/10/2007 8:32:34 PM
Our invitation to Del. Joannou to participate in our endorsement process, sent to his House email address, got the following response (private info redacted):
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: failure notice
> From: MAILER-DAEMON@smtpout13-02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net
> Date: Mon, April 09, 2007 7:48 am
> To: lowell@raisingkaine.com
>
> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at
> smtpout13-02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net.
> I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
> addresses.
> This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
The rest of the email (including the invite) is on the flip.
Maybe the House server was down? Maybe Joannou doesn't have a working official email? We're not sure. But the Joannou supporters may want to alert the Delegate as soon as possible.
In any event, community voting on our Light v. Joannou endorsement starts tomorrow.
(UPDATE: It's likely he just doesn't have email. I just sent another email and got a failure reply. Plus, check out the email listed in his bio: "NO EMAIL".)
> --- Below this line is a copy of the message.
>
> Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 07:41:26 -0700
> From: lowell@raisingkaine.com
> Subject: Raising Kaine endorsement
> To: DelJJoannou@house.state.va.us
>
> Del. Joannou: On April 4, Raising Kaine announced that it would be
> making an endorsement in the 79th House of Delegates district. We
> invited both yourself and Henry Light to come on Raising Kaine and make
> your case to our raaders. Mr. Light took us up on the offer right away,
> and we'd love to have you come on our blog as well. What we'd like to
> hear is your case for why we, as the largest online Progressive
> community in Virginia, should endorse you for re-election. We will be
> making our decision this Friday, so if you could get back to us as soon
> as possible, that would be great. Thanks very much.
>
> Best,
>
> Lowell Feld
> Raising Kaine
Comments
Go Figure (Waldo Jaquith - 4/10/2007 8:40:13 PM)
Del. Joannou is the only member of the General Assembly for whom I have never been able to locate an e-mail address for
his page on Richmond Sunlight. In fact, he's the
only legislator whose e-mail address isn't made obvious in all of the places where e-mail addresses are found on the General Assembly's website. I figure I spent a good half hour trying to find out how people could e-mail him before I just gave up.
Completely out of touch (Eric - 4/10/2007 9:13:43 PM)
A person in his position - serving the public - absolutely needs to have an email address in this day and age. He doesn't have to be a fan of the newer technology, but to completely shun it is ridiculous.
I had a boss a number of years back who didn't like email so she'd have her secretary print all of them for her (Lowell, you probably know who). But even she could be reached via email.
No email (Vivian J. Paige - 4/10/2007 9:08:56 PM)
Joannou doesn't do email at all.
Thats just it, no email (Sean Holihan - 4/10/2007 9:15:57 PM)
The Virginia Partisans are also going to endorse one of these men and are going to send them each some questions. I, of course, found no email for Del. Joannou so I called his law office. I was instructed that the best way to contact him was through snail mail.
Out
Of
Touch.
why would you ever send that to a state email? (demo925 - 4/10/2007 11:21:27 PM)
Perhaps you didn't know but it's not proper and is in fact illegal to use a state email address for anything overtly political. I'm going to say that an email regarding the possible endorsement of a candidate by a registered PAC might not be the best thing sent to a government account.
Because (Sean Holihan - 4/10/2007 11:45:47 PM)
They are routed to go to the home office after session is over with.
I'm pretty sure that no one cares.
Are you sure? (Vivian J. Paige - 4/10/2007 11:47:48 PM)
Maybe some are but I sent a couple of emails to the official addresses and they were never received.
They're supposed to (Sean Holihan - 4/11/2007 12:18:41 AM)
When I was getting everything set to go for Del. Brink, we were instructed to provide an email address for the IT people so that the capital email could then be forwarded to the home office email.
But I reckon not everyone does that. Kinda odd.
Illegal? (Susan P. - 4/11/2007 7:50:20 AM)
Del. Joannu may not use his office e-mail (if he has one) for this purpose, but there's certainly nothing illegal about a constituent or citizen attempting to contact him by this route. That's why the e-mail address is posted, so he can receive citizen input. He can choose to re-route it to comply with his requirements, but not to use it at all is pretty shocking. Even Bob Tata and Harry Purkey have e-mail.
Fortunately, the choice of Joannu is NOT a permanent, fatal error -- it can be corrected by the voters.
Brink's didn't work (Vivian J. Paige - 4/11/2007 9:28:48 AM)
His was one of the ones that I tried.
Now that is weird (Sean Holihan - 4/11/2007 9:39:38 AM)
I set that up for him before I left. All mail addressed to his Richmond email should go to his home office. That's the message I recieved from the IT people up in Richmond anyway.
That makes absolutely no sense at all. (Lowell - 4/11/2007 7:55:10 AM)
People e-mail and call their representatives all the time to discuss things political. For instance, if you e-mail your representative because you want him to vote a certain way or have "overtly politcal" advice, is that illegal? Of course not...millions of people do it every year. Honestly, where do you get this stuff from?
74th (Bill Kuster - 4/11/2007 3:02:53 AM)
Another good race to endorse in would be the one with Benny Lambert's son and a disbarred lawyer challenging ex-councilwoman Jackie Jackson.
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