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Monday, November 06, 2006

Goldmark victim of harassing robo-calls in WA-05

Natasha at Pacific Views posts about deceptive automated calls targeting Democrat Peter Goldmark in WA-05. From a Goldmark campaign news release, according to Natasha:
Several individuals in Spokane and Stevens County have reported receiving multiple automated telephone messages in the last two days.

“The Goldmark campaign has not employed an automated call since Friday, Oct. 20, more than two weeks ago,” reported Goldmark campaign manager Jeremiah Levine. “And we are not planning to send another automated message during this campaign. If you receive an automated message or multiple messages, please report them to the Goldmark campaign at 838-4888.”

Cathy McMorris has been linked with a company that is making harassing phone calls intended to fool voters into thinking calls are coming from Democratic candidates. McMorris is listed as a client of Conquest Communications. Conquest Communications has been engaged on behalf of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) to make negative robocalls intended to fool and anger voters (FEC filing for NRCC, Nov 3-4, 2006).

In other districts, NRCC calls contain an automated message something like: “I’d like to tell you about candidate X . . .” If the receiver hangs up, they instantly receive another call and are targeted to receive five or six additional automated calls with the same message. The recorded message does properly identify the source at the end of the call, but few voters stay on the line long enough to hear the entire message. ...
There is currently a recommended Daily Kos diary on the topic of harassing robo-calls funded by the NRCC. The best thing would be for the media to expose this obnoxious and possibly illegal tactic, but time is running short.

As always, if the GOP can find a way to cheat and get away with it through election day, they will. Just another cost of doing business. Pathetic.

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