Independent group targets Huckabee opponents with SC push polling [View All]

[brooklynite]

Source: Pine Bluff Commercial

COLUMBIA, S.C. - An independent political group plans to make phone calls to 1 million households in South Carolina using an automated system that disparages Republican presidential Mike Huckabee's opponents despite a state law that says such practices are illegal in this early voting state.

Common Sense Issues, a Colorado-based organization, does not have a direct connection to the former Arkansas governor, the group's executive director, Patrick Davis, said Friday. However, the nonprofit group is financed and run by Huckabee supporters.

Davis said the calls to South Carolina, which began last weekend, are legal under federal law and constitutionally protected free speech.

"We are sending those calls into South Carolina from outside the state," Davis said. "The federal law is the law that we're riding on."

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