TPM Muckraker: NRCC Robo Calls Hitting 20 House Districts

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NRCC Robo Calls Hitting 20 Districts

By Paul Kiel - November 6, 2006, 11:15 AM

Over at TPM, we've been keeping tabs on the robo calls being done by the National Republican Campaign Committee all over the country.

In each case, the calls begin with "Hi, I'm calling with information about (insert local Democratic candidate here)," and then continues to provide negative information about the candidate. Counter to FCC rules, which require that the caller identify themselves early on in the call, the calls only reveal that they are paid for by the NRCC at the end of the call. You can listen to one of these calls (from New York's 19th district) here. There are more than a few reports of voters getting frustrated by repeated calls they believe to be from the Dem candidate.

The firm conducting the calls is Conquest Communications, and reviewing the NRCC's independent expenditures filed with the FEC over the past week shows Conquest active in 20 different House races. The full list of expenditures, which includes the incredibly cheap price tags for these calls which reach hundreds of thousands of voters, is below the fold.

(Click on link above to see the entire list and hear robo call in Tammy Duckworth's district.)

[Hav]

1. .

Yes, they are scum and there was never any doubt about it.
I guess that many just don't listen anymore after being called too often so that they don't get to know that it's paid by the Repubs. Oh the outrage if they were the ones on the receiving end.

[Doctor_J]

2. Rove is a piece of human filth

I hope he contracts colon cancer in a location where there is no pain medication.