Trumpet of Patriots candidate quits over spam texts, ‘false promises’
Mark Aldridge, a Trumpet of Patriots candidate in the South Australian seat of Makin, has resigned from the party because he doesn’t like its spam SMS texts, among other reasons.
Taking to Facebook on Monday night, Aldridge said he “[does] not support various aspects of the upper management actions”, including the party’s use of SMS marketing.
Recent spam texts from the party are beginning to frustrate a number of Australians.
Let me get this clear: Mark Aldridge joins a team calling themselves “Trumpet of Patriots” and he doesn’t like their marketing strategy.
Did he not see the party ads from the last election?
Does he not know who runs the party?
What was he expecting?
I find it totally inappropriate that someone I personally don’t know is bombarding me daily with text messages I’m not interested in.
Trumpet of Patriots have gone about their campaign completely the wrong way and if they had any chance at all of winning this election they have totally blown it away and serves themselves right.
I think he may have forgotten to tell the party, as I just received a SMS saying “Cut immigration by 80%, vote for Mark Aldridge in Makin for Trumpet of Patriots https://V7.top.au.org Auth by H Fong of Trumpet of Patriots”