Pre-recorded Candidate Calls Irritating Kleeb Supporters (NE)

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This is from the Grand Island Independent, http://www.theindependent.com/stories/110706/new_robocalls07.shtml , but you have to register on the site to read the article. I got it from an action alert email from the Nebraska Democratic Party:

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Prerecorded telephone messages supposedly from Kleeb, a Third Congressional District candidate, have been repeatedly calling people in Central Nebraska, and Ben Lumpkin, Kleeb's communications director, is concerned about the effects.

The messages, known as robocalls, are designed to inform voters about certain candidates. However, Lumpkin said he has received numerous complaints about the prerecorded messages calling repeatedly -- as many as six times an hour.


"Our robocalls don't do that," he said.


Lumpkin hadn't heard the complaints about recordings as of Monday night but said it had been reported that the recordings were of low quality, prompting him to believe they may be recordings of actual Kleeb recordings.


Adams County Democratic Party Chairwoman Deb Quirk, who also volunteers with the county's phone bank, said she and other volunteers had called people who were irritated at the Democratic party because of the Kleeb calls.

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Some of them said they weren't going to vote for Kleeb, or at all, as a result, she said.
"It's creating a bad environment for our volunteers," she said. "The point is to depress voter turnout."

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Of course the Nebraska Republican Party is denying they know anything about it, and so is the Republican candidate.

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