Racist robocalls tied to neo-Nazi group target Andrew Gillum

[DonViejo]

Source: The Tallahassee Democrat



Jeff Burlew, Tallahassee Democrat Published 12:54 p.m. ET Aug. 31, 2018 | Updated 2:02 p.m. ET Aug. 31, 2018

Robocalls against Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum that say they were paid for by a neo-Nazi group in Idaho are going out to voters in Tallahassee.

The automated calls are narrated by someone pretending to be Gillum and using an exaggerated minstrel dialect with jungle noises in the background. The calls end with a disclaimer that they were funded by The Road to Power, an anti-Semitic, white supremacist website and podcast linked to Scott Rhodes of Sandpoint, Idaho.

According to the Des Moines Register, a sister paper of the Tallahassee Democrat, the group has been linked to other robocall campaigns in Charlottesville, Virginia, Oregon and California.

Terry Kant-Rauch, a Tallahassee realtor, received one of the robocalls this morning in the voice mail of her cell phone. Kant-Rauch, a Democrat who happens to have a biracial daughter, became emotional after hearing it, she said.

Read more: https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2018/08/31/racist-robocalls-tied-neo-nazi-group-targets-andrew-gillum/1157860002/

[SergeStorms]

1. Well that didn't take them long....

to scrape the bottom of the barrel. You had to know the racists, you know - Trump supporters - would be out of their minds with a Black man hoping to become the Governor of Florida.

[hibbing]

2. Deplorables doing the deplorable n/t

[kimbutgar]

3. I wonder what the caller ID number is?

All day I get these robo calls. Can’t block them enough on my phone.

[Midnight Writer]

4. Guilliani did this against David Dinkins. Hired people to call white voters using "black dialect",

being intentionally rude and offensive, and urging them to vote for Dinkins.

Worked for Rudy. He floated right to the top of the Republican toilet.

"America's Mayor", indeed.

[hoosierspud]

5. Scott Rhodes lives in Sandpoint, ID.

He has been linked to multiple racist phone calls and acts in that town as well as those noted here. The
Spokesman Review, Spokane's newspaper, has printed a bunch of articles on his antics.

[BadGimp]

6. Things will get a lot worse I predict.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. I'd love it if that shit backfired.

[BlueWI]

8. These tactics need more sunshine put on them.

The Republican Party needs to reject these tactics in the sunshine or face the outrage and public shame that these tactics deserve.

[riversedge]

9. Nice wish but the Repug Party is All In with the stinking Trump swamp.

[BlueWI]

10. To assume that change is impossible makes the status quo inevitable.

Shifts in public opinion have occurred before and can happen again. It takes persistence, good communication, and confidence that change is possible. Political positions of the parties have realigned on racial issues within 50 years.

Who knows what's possible until we give it our best efforts.