Republican Robocall Pretexting Campaign

WCityMike writes, "In 53 Congressional campaigns across the country, including the Pennsylvania 6th, the Connecticut 4th, the North Carolina 11th, the New Hampshire 2nd, and the Illinois 6th and 8th (and possibly all races), the National Republican Congressional Committee is conducting a $2.1 million campaign to make it appear as if Democrats are spamming callers with telemarketing calls. The NRCC hired Conquest Communications Group to conduct a massive nationwide robocalling campaign with calls specifically scripted to appear as if they're coming from the Democratic candidate — in violation of FCC regulations on such 'robocalls,' which requires the identity of the caller to be stated at the beginning of the message [47 CFR 64.1200(b)(1)]. The call begins with 'Hello. I'm calling with information about,' and then says the name of the Democratic candidate. There is then a pause; if the recipient hangs up here, they will receive repeated calls back with the same message, potentially up to 18 times or more (according to one callee). If the callee doesn't hang up, they hear a smear message from the machine about the Democratic candidate. The NRCC thinks the legality of the calls is, conveniently, a 'complicated legal question that's not going to get adjudicated this weekend.'" Update 20:47 GMT by SM: Thankfully we all learned how to deal with these folks last week.

Comments

Re:"smear message"?

[megaditto]

Let me make it real easy for you: the majority party gets all the chairmanships and the subpoena powers, and a large I-strick. By voting either candidate (D or R), you give either party the absolute power.

If you want Congressional investigations into Iraq intelligence & strategy & war profiteering & gas prices, vote Democrat.

If you like the way things are, how your taxes are lower and how we have not lost any American lives to terror since 911, vote for Republicans.

Fair enough? Now personally, I would say that if you want terrorists to win, vote Democrats, but that's just me. ;-)