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Remember the attack of the NRCC robocalls in the waning days before the 2006 election? Simply replace the words "Melissa Bean" with "Paul Hodes" and I'm sure your memory will be refreshed:
Rep. Melissa Bean , D-Ill., testified that the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) spent roughly $60,000 to place more than one million "robo-calls" in her district in October and November of 2006.
Bean, who won a second term with just 50.9 percent of the vote, said the calls were designed to leave the impression that they were sponsored by her supporters and not the NRCC.
The message began with a recorded voice stating that the call contained information about Melissa Bean . Some voters hung up before listening to the entire message, which eventually identified the NRCC as the sponsor, and called Bean's office to complain.
"They would describe how the calls woke up their babies interrupted their dinner, kept leaving them messages on their cell phones that were received late at night or forced them to run to grab the phone and all they would hear is 'Hello, I am calling with information about Melissa Bean ,' for the second, third, fourth time a day," Bean told the subcommittee.
Legislation is being considered that would prohibit this slimy tactic from those who are in the Do-Not-Call registry.
This is already the law in New Hampshire, as an article about the phony Hodes' robocalls makes clear.
In light of this, if you're on the Do-Not-Call list, and you get a primary related political robocall (as Iowans have been getting from a group supporting Huckabee), you should blog about it here so we can track these petty little crimes. In 2006, they were partially successful at first because it took some time for the dots to be connected (though a pre-BH Mike Caulfield was onto it before most).
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