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California Judge Routes Campaign Robocalls Through Colorado
Thomas Hawk writes "Victoria Kolakowski, a current sitting law judge at the California PUC, is running for Alameda Superior Court judge in California. As part of her campaign she is robodialing people in California with a pre-recorded message. The only problem is that in Califorina robodials are actually illegal unless first introduced by a non-recorded natural person who gains consent to play the call. Ironically, the agency set up to protect our privacy and enforce this law, the California PUC, is the very agency where Kolakowski works today. Kolakowski originally apologized for the calls but then later deleted messages on her Facebook account from people objecting to her use of these calls. Now Kolakowski is trying to argue that because 'technically' she is routing her calls through Colorado from outside the state that her robodials are actually legal."
Politician thinks the rules only apply to other people. News at 11.
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Well, now we know who not to vote for...
"You want to know how to help your kids? Leave them the fuck alone." -George Carlin
How stupid is she?
Honestly, It's not so much about the legality of it. It's the negative publicity. These things are illegal because people find them really really irritating. If you're trying to hawk holidays or something then you probably haven't heard of the company in the first place, so even if you go with someone else they haven't lost anything but for a candidate in an election, a vote for the another party is another vote they have to make up for elsewhere.
So are you saying that if the person who fires the gun in is in a different state than Victoria Kolakowski, it's not illegal?
If you're not in California, start your robodialers!
Contact:
Kolakowski for Judge 2010 (FPPC No. 1324175)
285 Hanover Avenue, #1
Oakland, California 94606-1260
(510) 465-2988
I am still trying to understand why anyone seems to think that annoying people with robocalls is the way to garner support from those people.
Judges and law enforcement officials in Canada aren't elected. They're appointed by our elected officials, and I'm more than happy they're focused on their actual jobs and not wasting months every few years shilling for votes based on overblown high profile cases.
Judges cannot be counted on to do there jobs properly if they're worried a controversial decision which upholds the current laws, but is hugely unpopular with the voting public, will cost them their job.
in my past life, I worked for a company responsible for the stuff used to create/implement "touch-tone hell."
When will organizations get a clue - if people don't want to be called, you're only going to piss them off by calling them, and the results will be counter-productive. If you piss me off by making me spend my valuable time going though some poorly designed menu system, only to run into a dead end/disconnect, you can bet that when I do get in touch with a human, I'm going to make sure they get to spend lots of their paid time handling my call.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
Indeed, but seeing a politician break the law is like seeing a doctor smoke, a priest rape a kid, my parents doing it, a cop assaulting someone... it just hurts more.
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Something is not right with our society's morals... This line should be part of a psychological test, 'which of these does not belong'.
Did your parents truly commit a crime in conceiving you? I can understand that you do not relish the prospect of observing them in the act but to compare it to the actions of the pope's minions or police violence is a bit overboard.
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