Watch Your Phone Lines, Democrats, Not Just in NH But Every State Primary

[ancianita]

The Republican National Committee (RNC) in recent weeks have reportedly funded thousands of automated phone calls to jam up the offices of dozens of House Democrats amid the fight surrounding the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.

The calls were recently discussed at the so-called "Off the Record" dinner ... attended by more than 12 Republican elected politicians, advisers and aides. Two unnamed sources who were briefed about the event told the Times that RNC officials discussed the phone jamming efforts during the dinner, suggested the calls were automated and admitted it was done to tie up the Democrats' phone lines.

RNC officials ... asserted that they used a vendor to survey voters. The voters that opposed Trump's official impeachment inquiry were then automatically offered to be connected to the offices of their congressional representatives, according to the officials.

The calls were not the first time members of the RNC have attempted similar phone-jamming efforts against Democrats. In 2002, the New Hampshire state Republican Party hired a telemarketing business to tie up the Democrats' get-out-the-vote phone line.

https://www.newsweek.com/rnc-funded-roughly-11000-automated-calls-jam-house-democrats-phone-lines-amid-impeachment-1469719?fbclid=IwAR3ODpwiZ53Y3bVovM8XS9ljGpRdGflD4wRf6jz7jzscWv9-2G-lXydh-v4

[Gothmog]

1. I am worried about our voter protection hotline for the Texas state party

I will raise this later this week

[CatMor]

2. Is there any dignity left in politics ...

some of the antics are so childish.

[ancianita]

3. It's high school cheating scaled up. This should be criminal.

[CatMor]

5. I agree.

[UniteFightBack]

4. Just some more efforts of the Russiapublicans to undermine democracy. Very depressing. nt

[ancianita]

6. It is. But maybe just channel it into notifications to DNC state headquarters. And call the FBI.

The FBI is familiar with Republican crimes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_New_Hampshire_Senate_election_phone_jamming_scandal

Police in Concord, the state capital, were notified by Democratic workers on the day of the election that they were receiving repeated telephone calls, terminating after five seconds, which were interfering with their efforts to reach voters and offer rides to the polls. For at least an hour and a half at midday they were unable to make any outgoing calls. Verizon was later able to stop most of these calls, but whoever had made them had violated state laws against telephone harassment.

State authorities found the calls came from out of state, and so brought in their federal counterparts. They were eventually traced to Mylo Enterprises, a Pocatello, Idaho-based company that ran phone banks.

The New Hampshire Union Leader reported on it February 7, 2003.[1] The story forced the resignation of state GOP executive director Charles McGee shortly afterward, when he admitted lying to the paper. Later, prosecutors said that he had come up with the idea of disrupting Democratic communications after seeing a flyer put out by the Shaheen campaign with the numbers. Drawing on his military background, he decided to disrupt "enemy communications" and called several telemarketing firms he knew to have Republican sympathies.

MSNBC's Steve Kornacki discovered the same shit in New Jersey.

Steve Kornacki of politicsnj.com discovered[2] that [Allen] Raymond, a New Jersey native, had worked for James Treffinger, a former gubernatorial candidate then under indictment for a phone scandal during that state's 2001 Republican primary for the senatorial nomination, in which calls were made smearing two of his opponents. A prominent figure in that indictment, possibly a co-conspirator, was an unnamed Republican consultant believed to be Raymond (during the later trial of James Tobin, the prosecution said that GOP Marketplace had worked for a Senate campaign in New Jersey and that that work had led to a criminal indictment).