As if there aren't enough political ads on television or left in our mailboxes, we now get the added joy of political texts spamming up our phones.
Personally, I have received myriad unwanted political texts for weeks from Tom and Nancy and Erin and Olivia, among others. Tomorrow is the election day, but can I do anything NOW to stop the texts?
According to the information on the Wisconsin Do Not Call Registry, political messages are legal as long as they are "peer to peer" – meaning they are sent one at a time and coming from a person.
However, you should be able to make them stop, peer to peer or one by one, if you send STOP back to the sender or block the number as you might any other caller. Seems tedious, but maybe it's worth a try?
Molly Snyder started writing and publishing her work at the age 10, when her community newspaper printed her poem, "The Unicorn.” Since then, she's expanded beyond the subject of mythical creatures and written in many different mediums but, nearest and dearest to her heart, thousands of articles for OnMilwaukee.
Molly is a regular contributor to FOX6 News and numerous radio stations as well as the co-host of "Dandelions: A Podcast For Women.” She's received five Milwaukee Press Club Awards, served as the Pfister Narrator and is the Wisconsin State Fair’s Celebrity Cream Puff Eating Champion of 2019.
