Republican "fake phone call" scandal spreads to Philly

[giza]

Read more here from the Philadelphia Daily News.

This makes 5 states in total where the Republicans are "robo dialing" people, pretending to be their Democratic candidates. And those are only the states that we know about.

It's sleazy, dishonest, and unethical. In short, it's what I've come to expect from the Republican party. Clearly, their motto is "stay in power at any cost".

Those of you who are in the U.S., please vote on Tuesday.

Comments

[silver-huskey.livejournal.com]

It's my policy to hang up on recorded messages, unless I deem them as worth listening to. 99% of such messages don't make the cut, especially political ones. Aren't the nasty attack ads on TV enough for both sides? (Though the Republican ones are extra nasty and insulting.) I definitely look forward to voting on Tuesday. Then with the exception of the mayoral race next year, it'll be nice to get a short break from nasty politics.

Sadly, being a journalism major, I HAVE to follow these political campaigns. X_X

[kellic.livejournal.com]

I've got my absentee ballot submitted. Fat lot of good it will do. I've been looking at my voting record over the last 10 years. Not one person I've voted for has won. Not at the local, state, or national level. Not one. I should have voted Republican this year.

[rexxwolfe.livejournal.com]

Well heres to hope Giza though admittidely I dont think a open minded free thinking candidate will be in office for some time. It will get worse before it gets better

[duncandahusky.livejournal.com]

Yay for Americablog! :-) I'd missed this in the weekend news, but I wish I could say I was surprised.

Speaking of winning at any cost, I just came across this gem over at BoingBoing:
An ABC News undercover investigation showed Army recruiters telling students that the war in Iraq was over, in an effort to get them to enlist.

ABC News and New York affiliate WABC equipped students with hidden video cameras before they visited 10 Army recruitment offices in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

"Nobody is going over to Iraq anymore?" one student asks a recruiter.

"No, we're bringing people back," he replies.

"We're not at war. War ended a long time ago," another recruiter says.

Wow. Just wow.

[simbab.livejournal.com]

Our Republican candidate for governor is down 36 points in the latest poll. He has accused the Democrat in the race of supporting NAMBLA. Jon Stewart, sharp wit as usual, had this to say when they were taping at OSU last week:

"How many points down in the fourth quarter do you have to be to play the NAMBLA card?"

Evidently about 36. But it's to be expected from Ken Blackwell, who has run his campaign directly from the Bush-Rove playbook. At least in this case it is failing miserably.

[danruk.livejournal.com]

i was never particularly politically involved when down in the states, the same holds true for canada now that I'm there. but is it so wrong to think.. 'hey.. I"m glad i'm not down there for the political b.s. going-ons'?

[triggur.livejournal.com]

As alarming as this is, what I find even more unbelievable is that the mainstream media aren't running it as a story. The phone company can sure as heck track these people down, it certainly represents fraud on a huge level so the police should be concerned, and yet... nothing's happening?

If anything happens it'll come out as a tiny page 12 footnote a couple weeks after the election.

[giza.livejournal.com]

Don't be so sure. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/16/AR2006051601712.html)

[triggur.livejournal.com]

So... four years after the fact, someone was held in some way responsible... but all those phone calls to the whitehouse never added up to anything?

Doesn't sound like much accountability to me.

[wendingo.livejournal.com]

As someone who has had to make political calls before (only to supporters who actually wanted to be heard from! I refuse to telemarket) it is a terrible job to begin with. But it always carries a risk of backfiring. Catching someone at a bad time, in the middle of running out the door. While dinner is on the table. It seems someone as finally found a way to use that annoyance to there advantage.

The Dems should get the word out, make a big deal, and force mainstream to better cover this sleeze. These are the kind of tactics I would expect in a class election, not a major position.