I just received an email from my local Senator (D) addressed to my teen daughter – who I can assure you does not get involved herself in politics, and also does not utilize my email address. It addressed her by first and last name – both of which are quite unique.

He has scheduled two town halls to talk about “health Care reform” or as he calls it the “affordable health choices act”

I will have to trace it back – anyone want to give me pointers -is it even worth it?

govdelivery.com is utilized by government “entities” to disseminate information on behalf of “governments”.

They were contacted by Fox and of course now have “no comment.

Fishier, fishier, fishier.

Thank God this could never happen with our National Security. They probably diverted resources from the White House web-site to protecting Internet security, which allowed this little toe-stub to sneak through No harm, no foul, heh heh.

We must be at least 100 times safer now than we were under Bushhitler.

Of course, there’s also a slight chance the WH CIO was out shop-lifting instead of manning the internet barricades.

And who exactly are these “third parties” they speak of?

Are they the third parties that ratted out friends, family, and neighbors to flag@whitehouse. gov?

Dang those third parties anyway, they just mess up everything :-)

Avocacy groups are forwarding email addresses? Isn’t it illegal to reveal a person’s email address just because they signed a petition? You can bet it this was an advocacy group and it was a conservative group, the White House would be quick to say who it was.

Never mind that this happened just days after Americans were told to “snitch” on their family, friends and neighbors over “fishy” rumors that the White House can’t let Americans hear.

The only thing “fishy” is this excuse being put out by the Chicago White House.

Nah, not in this White House.

From Fox News:

White House Passes Blame on Unsolicited Health Care E-Mails

The White House for the first time Sunday seemed to acknowledge that people across the country received unsolicited e-mails from the administration last week about health care reform, suggesting the problem is with third-party groups that placed the recipients’ names on the distribution list.

In a written statement released exclusively to FOX News, White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said the White House hopes those who received the e-mails without signing up for them were not “inconvenienced” by the messages.

“The White House e-mail list is made up of e-mail addresses obtained solely through the White House Web site. The White House doesn’t purchase, upload or merge from any other list, again, all e-mails come from the White House Web site as we have no interest in e-mailing anyone who does not want to receive an e-mail,” the statement said. “If an individual received the e-mail because someone else or a group signed them up or forwarded the e-mail, we hope they were not too inconvenienced.”

The White House previously would not answer questions on how the e-mails landed unsolicited in so many inboxes. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Thursday said he couldn’t give an answer until he saw who received the e-mails because he doesn’t have “omnipotent clarity.”

Yet the White House ignored repeated offers from FOX News to share with the administration such e-mail addresses, to help determine how the recipients ended up on the White House distribution list.

Shapiro said Sunday that those recipients can unsubscribe if they want, “by clicking the link at the bottom of the e-mail or (telling) whomever forwarded it to them not to forward such information anymore.” He said the White House is trying to correct the problem.

“We are implementing measures to make subscribing to e-mails clearer, including preventing advocacy organizations from signing people up to our lists without their permission when they deliver petition signatures and other messages on individuals’ behalf,” he said.

One possible reason for the confusion is that advocacy groups, when dealing with online petitions, are sending in their membership lists whenever they make contact with the White House – the e-mail addresses affiliated with those members could then become embedded in the White House distribution list. The White House indicated its Web site managers are going to seek out and block online petitions so that people can only sign up for information individually. …

http://www.foxnews.com/politic.....se-e-mail/

Yeah – “whoopsie” and “If you don’t like it you can unsubscribe.”

Perhaps this is the next step in the White House’s plan to pay for Health Care – emails for “discount” Viagra™ will be next. :-)