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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.
Fuck you, liar. I don't listen to Limbaugh. I got a phone call claiming to be from the Sekula-Gibbs campaign at 11:30 PM. The number (since the dumbfucks didn't block off caller ID) traced back to Lampson's campaign.
Now go fuck yourself.
And they call it "flamebait" to point out how biased the media is.
Fucking leftist crapmods we have here... business as usual for Slashshit.
Republicans throw their gay rapists out.
You Demoshits keep yours in office.
Seeing as both political parties do and have done it in the past (as well as a host of other illegal and unethical election-swinging methos), I don't see what your point is, exactly.
So yeah, that's my response. Turn your goddamn phone off. If it bothers you so much, sue them over it. Don't vote for them. Write your senator (chances are, he or she is doing it too, or something just as bad). Why you think sitting around a web forum and bitching about it will help in the slightest is beyond me. But the way I see it, people like you aren't likely to do much else, so I gave you the advice I thought would be most useful to you.