from DailyKos: Hard data on voter-suppression robo-calls

What disgusting, power-hungry thugs they are. I hope there are many prosecutions.

2812 Emerywood Parkway, Suite 103
Richmond, Virginia 23294
Ph. - 804-358-0560
Fax - 804-213-0797
http://www.conquestgroup.com

:hi:

activities. These activities are being documented by online researchers as we speak. Your company may want to cease these illegal calls, because they violate a number of federal laws.

have received your contact information and will be calling you to discuss the Federal laws you have violated in service of the Republican party.

Have a nice day and don't forget to vote on Tuesday!

If you will be voting for a Republican, press one. :evilgrin:

(And repeat)

it may yet backfire on the Republicans!

the time crunch.

from the comments below that above diary:

According to the Oct 06 FEC filing (1+ / 0-)
Recommended by: sbdenmon
There are three companies contracted at the end of October to provide "Phone Banks".


They are:
Conquest Communications, Richmond VA
8 oppo campaigns:
Brown, GA-04
Marshall, GA-08
Mahoney, FL-16
Lucas, KY-04
Murphy, PA-06
Bean, IL-08
Shuler, NC-11

Direct Strategies, Tallahassee, FL
5 oppo campaigns:
Arcuri, NY-24
Wulsin, OH-02
Murphy, PA-08
Carney, PA-10
Burner, WA-08

Feather Larson & Synhorst DCI
3 oppo campaigns
Walz, MN-01
Madrid, NM-01
Courtney, CT-02

will be back in a moment.

Are they operating illegally?

http://www.sunbiz.org/COR/2005/0504/70256627.Tif

^^^They filed a voluntary dissolution on 4/28/2005!!!!!!! They are in deep shit for operating without a business license!!!

interesting.

They didn't file an annual report for 2006!!!!

http://www.sunbiz.org/scripts/cordet.exe?a1=DETFIL&n1=P98000060148&n2=NAMFWD&n3=0000&n4=N&r1=&r2=&r3=&r4=DIRECTSTRATEGIES&r5=

what do you think is more likely?

How big is this?

be back in a second.

change in business structure. They added a holding company or something. The new company is definitely related because it has the same CEO. Sorry :blush:

that would have been interesting.

If these calls are intended to harass potential Democratic voters, then the calls are illegal. You would have to prove the intent beyond a reasonable doubt, but it could be done.

They did a similar thing up in NH, with the express purpose of jamming a phone being used by a Democratic GOTV line.

They were charged, prosecuted, and convicted.

Lots more... check it out.

You'll see some familiar names.
http://www.conquestgroup.com/Clients.htm

I wonder why?

Snips from ALL of the management bios:
Lets hope we see this list in another capacity soon.

Victor A. Gresham
Gresham has been an innovator and leader in putting technological advances to work for Republican and conservative causes.

In the early years of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, Gresham served as Political Director for the National Conservative Political Action Committee, NCPAC. In 1984 Gresham left NCPAC to work on President Reagan’s reelection effort,

David S. Johnson
Prior to founding Conquest and Bold Stroke, Dave served as Executive Director of the Republican Party of Virginia for three years.

Prior to joining RPV, Dave was with the National Republican Congressional Committee in a number of capacities for eight years.

Also at the NRCC, Johnson was a regional field representative in the Northeast ('87 '88) and South ('89 '90), and a Research Analyst / Earned Media Specialist in the Western states ('85 '86).

Winfree W. Chewning, Jr.
He is a member of the National Association of Republican Campaign Professionals. Chewning, his wife Susan and their two children are active members of the West End Assembly of God.

Broc B. Johnson
Johnson has served as a legislative aide to members of the Virginia House and Senate, and was responsible for many of the Virginia GOP’s successes in 1993 as a field representative for the Republican Party of Virginia.

you know they are desperate when they are willing to throw years and years of career away on an election.

I'm in one of those targeted districts, and we had a couple robo-calls yesterday. Thanks to all for the contact information as my number is a "Do Not Call" number and we'll be reporting Conquest Group. We're also gonna call their corporate number...maybe I'll just keep calling and calling. Maybe other DU'ers who are getting these intrusions into the electoral process and our private lives should return those calls. My bets are the company operates out of a boiler room.

they only need a couple of phone lines and a couple of computers with automated dialing software. Not much to scrap together.

This sort of thing happened in reverse during New Hampshire's 2002 election. Instead of harassing voters, they harrassed voter turnout lines for the Democratic Party in that state.

projects.

Do we have any projects?

http://www.conquestgroup.com/ContactUs/Contact.cfm

Republican Party of Florida

Shaw, Clay (FL-CD22)

Keller, Ric (FL-CD08)

Buckhorn, Bob (FL-Tampa Mayor)

Naugle, Jim (FL-Ft Laud Mayor)

Daves, Joel (FL-WPalm Mayor)

Reeves, Jim (FL-HD02)

Teel, Christine (FL-Ft Laud Cmr)

Troutman, Baxter (FL-HD66)

White, Michael (FL-HD43)

Hammond, Michael (FL-HDxx)



http://www.conquestgroup.com/Clients.htm

I'd also pass it along to KO and Air America and anyone else who will listen.

I don't have the ear of lawmakers and the media. ;-)

:)

More seriously, it's possible that this will be a story today and some ethical law(wo)man will take action. In the absence of that appropriate response, we'd do well to think what we can do.

Gregory cut him a little short - but it was put out there.

so, I called Jim Walsh's office and told them that because of the call, I was going to vote for his opponent. Then I wrote an email to a local channel to tell them of the robo calls and that it's happening all over the country. It probably won't change anything, but it did feel good.

zalinda