TPMMuckraker Robo-calls: January 2010
Robo-calls
Conservative Robocalls In MA Senate Race May Be Designed To Bamboozle Voters
Zachary Roth | January 18, 2010, 6:36PM
MA Senate candidate Joe Kennedy (I)
Are conservatives trying to hoodwink low-information voters with a last-minute, under-the-radar robocall campaign in the Massachusetts Senate race?
Boston reader A.F., a registered Democrat, received a recorded call recently from Right March PAC, a right-wing PAC led by Dr. William Greene, a conservative activist.
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American Future Fund
Conservative Group Backs Off Effort To Undermine Robo-Call Laws
Zachary Roth | January 13, 2010, 12:32PM
A shadowy conservative group is backing off its effort to undermine state laws restricting robo-calls.
Lawyers for American Future Fund Political Action (AFFPA) informed the FEC yesterday afternoon that they were withdrawing their request for an advisory opinion on whether those state laws were pre-empted by a less restrictive federal law. AFFPA had argued in its request that the state laws were indeed pre-empted, and indicated that it planned a barrage of robo-calls for 2010.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (1) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (3)Topics: American Future Fund, DCI Group, FEC, Robo-calls, Voting
American Future Fund
Shadowy Conservative Group Still Working To Undermine Robocall Laws
Zachary Roth | January 6, 2010, 2:37PM
Despite setbacks, a shadowy conservative group isn't backing off its bid to undermine state restrictions on political robocalls, as it gears up to unleash a barrage of such calls in 2010 races.
In October, as we reported, the American Future Fund Political Action (AFFPA) argued in a brief to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) that state laws restricting robocalls are pre-empted by a more lenient federal law. AFFPA informed the FEC that it planned to make such calls in Congressional races this fall.
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