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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."
Wait a second........she's a Democrat. Never mind.
http://california.evoter.com/kolakowski
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
Oh noes! That's socialism!!! The people of California are being robbed! I mean, it's not like the federal government provides any services to individual states or to the entire nation as a whole, or to individual residents of states that aren't accounted for in the amount that "the state receives in federal funds". I'm sure that amount considers defense of the country (which California is a part of), California's share of the benefits of federally funded research (not just the amount of that money spent in California), all kinds of federal food subsidies, the taxes that California charges to recipients of federal funds through all manner of federal programs, etc. Nope, it's just the evil federal government (irony aside, the Federal government is pretty terrible in lots of ways, but I don't think it's actually any worse than most state governments) stealing from poor old California. Boo Hoo!