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Tea Party Group Plans Obama Phone Bank SabotageThe Obama call tool allows supporters to make cold calls from home, but a local Florida Tea Party leader is using the phone list to pitch Romney. Think of what we could do if 100 of us did this for an hour each day.
Posting on the website, Meetup.com, the group's founder Dr. Joe Magnant, a vein specialist practicing in Fort Meyers, Fla. asked Lee912 members Thursday to use the Obama phone list to campaign for Romney.
Magnant suggests callers make the case directly for the Romney-Ryan ticket or just mark the voter as "already called" ("This will remove them from their call list," Magnant explains).
On the message board, Magnant lays out his plan, in all caps, as follows:
In a second post Thursday afternoon, Magnant tells group members that they shouldn't be "intimidated" by the prospect of placing calls. "I just made 25 calls or responses in less than 5 minutes on my desk top between procedures in my office," he wrote, also in all caps. "Think of what we could do if 100 of us did this for an hour each day from now until the election."
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rubycramer/tea-party-group-plans-obama-phone-bank-sabotage
librechik
(30,676 posts)did Citizens United do this too??
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)If the campaign is opening up the call rolls to anyone who goes to the site without vetting them, then I don't see how it could be illegal.
Underhanded, immoral, dirty, no good, etc, etc and etcetera, absofuckinglutely.
I wonder if the numbers are being harvested for telemarketing?
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)I know physicians who feel that their lucrative practices will be threatened by the healthcare reform measures. What it boils down to ultimately for Romney supporters is greed.
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)The stories I could tell are hair raising. The AMA keeps driving up the cost of health care by keeping us in a constant shortage of doctors...we have fewer doctors per capita than any other industrial nation.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)Sabotage? Not to mention stealing information? Aren't these things illegal?
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)trip your sister-in-law
IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)or here
http://www.vitals.com/doctors/Dr_Joseph_Magnant.html
Citizens can also send him some personal love here:
info@weknowveins.com
or here:
P. 239.694.VEIN (8346) F. 239.936.6272
OhZone
(3,212 posts)conspiracy to commit a crime?
louis-t
(23,297 posts)Voter fraud much? Attempting to impersonate an "eligible voter" is voter fraud.
IDoMath
(404 posts)If you haven't seen it, look for the article about abortion opponents walking off the protest line to go into abortion clinics to have abortions. "Well, that's different. These other women are all sluts."
I think this is the one;
http://www.prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org/articles/anti-tales.shtml
William Seger
(10,779 posts)IDoMath
(404 posts)Dishonest, unethical, poor sportsmanship certainly but probably not illegal, at least not in a criminal sense.
This is the security risk of crowd-sourcing. The campaign *might* try to sue users who abuse the tool but there is little point in that.
Anybody got a copy of the Terms & Conditions for subscribers?
louis-t
(23,297 posts)having to do with an election is voter fraud. Laws are continually being updated to accomodate new technology. Let's hope this gets some attention.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)If he really did find a clot that was missed or if he found a "clot" that fattens his bank account.
Habibi
(3,598 posts)Beartracks
(12,821 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)Dread Pirate Roberts
(1,896 posts)Some publicity about his activities "between procedures" seems to be in order. It's not a problem if its the truth, right Doctor? Think if 100 of us got the word out about this Albert Schweitzer of varicose vein treatments.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)most of the people on the phone lists are already Dems who plan to vote for Obama anyway