Julius Henson ordered to pay $1 million for 2010 election robocall
Source: Baltimore Sun
Political consultant Julius Henson must pay the state $1 million for putting out 112,000 robocalls intended to discourage black voters from going to the polls on Election Day 2010, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
"Voter suppression in Maryland will not be tolerated," Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler said in a statement. "The court's opinion and damages award will hopefully make political consultants think twice before using these types of illegal dirty tricks again."
Henson violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act with the "express purpose of suppressing the votes of a minority group in a contested statewide gubernatorial election," U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake wrote in a 13-page memorandum. Blake also found Henson's employee Rhonda Russell guilty in the civil case
Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-henson-robocall-fine-20120529,0,749730.story
At least Maryland recognizes voter suppression?
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I bet he's 
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These penalties need to be much more immediate and much more of a deterrence.
God knows he's not the one who "hatched" the plan, but he clearly was only too happy to stab a whole lot of people in the backs, ethically, for the right-wing.
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