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Ms. Toad

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1. No more than when anyone else uses texts for political messages.

Reply to EllieBC (Original post)

Mon Nov 5, 2018, 10:27 PM

Nov 2018

Political calls (and likely texts) are exempt from the do not call registry.

BUT lists of voters, sorted by party, are public records. Anyone can get those, and match them up presumably the same way Move-On does to use for political purposes. I'm pretty sure we got robo calls from POTUS in the last election urging us to vote for Hillary.

Same thing.

(I don't like it - I'd like my phone to be truly exempt - but it is not new or nefarious for teh president to allow his name to be used to promote candidates he likes.)

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Texts from the giant talking yam???? [View all] EllieBC Nov 2018 OP

No more than when anyone else uses texts for political messages. Ms. Toad Nov 2018 #1

It's so gross. EllieBC Nov 2018 #3

I agree that everything about him is gross. Ms. Toad Nov 2018 #4

did he send during oval office time? dawg day Nov 2018 #2

No one received a text from Trump obamanut2012 Nov 2018 #5

Would it be spam then? Or like Robocalls? EllieBC Nov 2018 #6