A former best buddy who stopped talking to me several years ago, completely cut me off and refuses to tell me why, sent me an email just now asking me to pass on to my email list a petition to get someone on the ballot for a county position. I know she did not mean to send it to me. At the end of her email, she paraphrases the Helen Walton quote with “It is not what you gather, it is what you scatter that matters.”   So her first email to me in years is political spam?   Indeed.