Okay, how about looking into those robocals in Baghdad? Could they have anything to do with Dutko Direct Strategies?

THAT would be interesting.

John Blackford

Here's your Dutko site:

http://www.dutkoworldwide.com/

I emailed the five principals listed at the www.dsgop.com web-site and requested they put my phone number on their "do not call" list.

...Wait, does that mean the former House Leadership actually hired Dutko? I don't know how often the "leadership" hires lobbyists to work for it, but that seems rather odd to me.

Dutko Top 10 Clients for 2005:
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1.) American Chemistry Council -- $808,000
2.) IDT Corp -- $385,000
3.) American Pacific Corp -- $360,000
4.) Pacificare Health Systems -- $325,000
5.) Scooter Store -- $325,000 (what the...??)
6.) Western Governors University -- $315,000
7.) Parex Bank -- $304,500
8.) Federation of American Hospitals -- $300,000
9.) Motorola Inc. -- $277,000
10.) Michigan Biotechnology Institute -- $275,000

They had 85 clients who paid more than $100,000 for their services, and like I said above it's a diverse group. For instance, the United Nations paid $145,000 via the International Labor Organization -- I wonder if John Bolton had anything to do with that? Maybe, maybe not. Another odd entries in the Top 85 is the city of Sandy, Utah ($165,000 -- and they've paid somewhere around that amount for the last four or five years...). There are one or two other municipal organizations on their list, but Sandy seems to be the standout in terms of how much and how often they've used Dutko.

...Not that it proves they placed the offending calls, but they did get paid to place some calls by the National Republican Congressional Committee in PA-08, so that's a start.

Also in North Carolina in Taylor v Shuler.

I made the following post at BlueNC.com 11/6/06

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Submitted by gregflynn on Mon, 11/06/2006 - 3:32pm.

Not counting payments to individual phone bankers, the Taylor campaign has paid the following for calling:

Direct Strategies
106 E College Ave Ste 1100
Tallahassee, Florida 32301
10/16/2006 $5,636.62 PHONE CALLS
10/18/2006 $8,251.21 CALLING

In an AP article in Charlotte Observer:
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/15940041.htm

Taylor issued a news release Sunday saying that if re-elected, he will seek legislation to prohibit automated political phone calls. He co-sponsored a similar bill in 2005.

The "robocalls" have been used in a campaign that has also featured weeks of nasty TV ads.

Looks like Chuck coordinated a smear campaign with the NRCC.

The numbers for NRCC for anti-Shuler calls since 9/1/06 from politicalmoneyline.com:

$55,167 new total 11/06/06 revised.

I had to convince my ex-wife not to avoid voting and to vote for John Hall here in NY's 19th CD. She had received numerous calls before I spoke with her which led her to believe John's campaign was behind them.

I had to actuall sit down at my laptop with her to show her storeies from around the country about these same types of calls being made throughout the country before she'd believe me (she thinks I'm wayyyyy too conspiratorial until something like this proves out).

Some sort of enforcement action has to be established through legislation to go after these people to completely nullify this as an option in future campaigns.

Also, a big change in how campaigns are financed would go a long way to changing things here along with shit-canning first-past-the-post.

Oh yeah, maybe we could jettison the electoral college and do something about this nonsense of two senators from each state thereby giving less populous states the opportunity to saddle us with another catastrophe in the future.

One last thing (this is almost a late Santa list) - how about impeaching some of the people currently sitting on various federal benches for perjuring themselves during their confirmation hearings.

That's it, I'm done.

The Part That makes You want to think.

Michigan Gov. Engler Sold then Bioport, at a loss.
Michigan tax payers gave away patents.

Okay, I am talking to myself I am just Upset.

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