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Podcast: My Favorite Mistake: Learning Without Blame in Business and Leadership
Episode: Why Political Texts Won’t Leave You Alone, with State Sen. Stephanie Pitcher
Description: In this special bonus episode of My Favorite Mistake, Mark Graban sits down with Senator Stephanie Pitcher, a criminal defense attorney (at Parker & McConkie in Utah) and Utah state senator, to discuss a modern campaign tactic that’s frustrating voters nationwide: political text messages. Senator Pitcher provides an insider’s view on why candidates rely on these texts to build name recognition, the rules governing them, and how campaigns respond (or sometimes don’t) to requests to “STOP.”
Mark and Stephanie dive into questions many of us have wondered: Is anyone really reading our responses to campaign texts? Are...