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Re: Robocall targets Hagan on earmarks

FFC1304 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:10:02 -0400

Hagan raised our taxes by $5 BILLION , the debt by $7 BILLION...she's outta control...stop her now.

Re: Robocall targets Hagan on earmarks

shimae — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:51:03 -0400

I testified with AG Cooper in DC about the impact of robo calls.

It is too bad that politicians continue to exempt themselves from Do Not Call law.

StopPoliticalCalls.org is fighting for the privacy of the American voter.

1 - Creating a Political Do Not Call Registry
2 - Testifying in the US Senate about robo calls (Sen. Feinstein’s Robocall Privacy Act)
3 - Forcing states to enforce existing robo call laws (CA, MN, NJ, etc..)
4 - Getting politicians to take a do not robo call pledge (7 have)

As I testified at the US. Senate these robo calls are an epidemic and this election cycle “phone spam” and are invading the privacy of All American Voters.

Our members are taking a stand and saying enough is enough at the National Political Do Not Contact Registry at StopPoliticalCalls.org.

Here is a quote from a member recently:

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Robocall targets Hagan on earmarks

ryanteaguebeckwith — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:41:29 -0400

A robocall attacks Kay Hagan on state spending.

The Associated Builders and Contractors' Free Enterprise Alliance is making the automated calls to North Carolina voters arguing that the Democratic Senate candidate included costly projects in the state budget.

"In the state Senate, Hagan set out securing earmarks, state funding for theater programs," a woman says in the calls. "Her pet projects cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars."

The call makes a link between state spending and earmark reform, an issue being pushed nationally.

As a budget writer from 2003 to 2007, Hagan was known for bringing home the bacon: $1.5 million for an International Civil Rights Museum, $500,000 for Greensboro's Center City Park, $500,000 for the International Furnishings Market in High Point, and $10 million for a joint Millennium campus being developed by the UNC-Greensboro and N.C. A&T State University.

Technically, state legislators do not refer to their spending projects as "earmarks," although the concept is the same.

After the jump, the script.

Robocall on earmarks