Text message to wrong district


Democratic candidate Scott Murphy got an unexpected volunteer today, in the form of woman fuming about a text message she received this morning from Republican challenger Jim Tedisco’s camp.

Niskayuna resident Clara Mehserle says she received a text message on her cell phone this morning that said: “Jim Tedisco needs your vote! Polls open until 9 p.m. YOUR VOTE MATTERS. Paid for by Tedisco for Congress.”

One large problem: Mehserle doesn’t live in the 20th Congressional district. She’s a registered Democrat. And she thinks she’ll have to pay for the message because it came from a phone system outside her Verizon network.

As a result, the substitute teacher said she called Murphy’s headquarters in Clifton Park to volunteer going door to door today. She said she called Tedisco’s headquarters and left a message about her complaint.

“I’m so ticked off by it,” Mehserle said. “Why are they targeting Schenectady County residents?”

A call to Tedisco spokesman Adam Kramer about the text message wasn’t immediately returned this afternoon.

Lauren Stanforth

3 Responses

  1. albany_punk says:

    Tedisco is probably to the point where he’s thinking, “If I can live outside the district and run, people outside the district should be able to vote too!

  2. FOJ4LIFE says:

    anybody think she wase’nt goinmg to help out anyway? a “substitute” teacher trying to make her bones is more like it.suprise suprise suprise she,out of some phony moral indignation and outrage is makeing the supreem sacrifice of injecting her self into this critical race, I find it disingeniouse and in bad taste for the TU to run this the day befor election, whats tommorow, Tedisco “beats his wife” and eats small children, anybodys else think this stinks?…..Carl in Rensselaer

  3. AlbanyCityRepublican says:

    News to anyone who cares about this issue: mobile phones are MOBILE!!!! Someone getting a wrong text message can happen since cell towers have no clue what congressional boundaries exist. Also, people are terrible at updating their address info so the issue is why does this not happen more often. Mehserle, use the stimulus dollars and pay the dime for the text message. The government takes more from your purse but this text message is what really ticks you off. Please move on.