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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGabriel Joseph III, president of FreeEats = spam text message sent out to thousands of Wisconsin
FreeEats can make up to 3.5 million phone calls a day. "We generally talk to more people than watch television, listen to the radio, or read the newspaper combined," says Joseph.
FreeEats is also known as Advantage Research, ccAdvertising, Data Research, Election Research, fec Research, fecads, Political Research, and Public Research. It has been accused of disguising or "spoofing" its caller IDs; Joseph has reportedly said his company has "thousands" of aliases.
Parting shot: Joseph warns Mother Jones: "If someone writes something that I dont like, I can make their life...I can make them understand a few things if I choose."
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/12/i-robo-caller
From Blogging Blue...
Conservatives ramp up dirty tricks leading up to June 5 recall election
Just one week before voters head to the polls to cast their votes to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker, conservatives seem to be pulling out all the stops in their attempts to defend Gov. Walker.
This week a spam text message was sent out to thousands of Wisconsinites attacking Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, Walkers Democratic challenger in the recall election, as a union puppet. Heres a copy of the text message:
Heres the full text of the message, in case you cant read it off the image above:
FRM:WI@obamasaliar.com
SUBJ:Union Puppet
MSG:Tom Barrett is a Union Puppet who will give Union Thugs everything they want. Call & ask why 414-271-8050
Information Ive received seems to point to the spam text message having been sent by ccAdvertising, a political phone and text-messaging vendor with a history of sending unsolicited messages. According to one report, the parent compant of ccAdvertising is actually FreeEats, a company that according to a report by Daniel Schulman of Mother Jones has operated under different names while engaging in similar voter suppression behaviors in other states across the country.
http://bloggingblue.com/2012/05/30/conservatives-ramp-up-dirty-tricks-leading-up-to-june-5-recall-election/
Woody Woodpecker
(562 posts)He's knowingly spamming people.
aquart
(69,014 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,815 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)would love to see this shitbird eat those words.