Reply #19: Okay

[sandnsea]

Here's an email I came up with - let me know if it's okay for Nancy's area. I'll just email it without saying where I live. I'll also look for any media links before I send it, or just link to TPM if there aren't any yet.



I am disheartened by the scandalous tactics in this year’s election. I have seen some pretty shocking things across our great country, from harassing the family of a campaign worker in Massachusetts to concocting stories about Mr. Webb’s novel to actually saying there’s “lying going on” from Nancy Boyda. It has been a shameless display of dirty politics and I understand it is continuing with a telephone scheme that makes people believe Democratic candidates are harassing anybody who hangs up on them.

It works like this. A robo-call is generated that sounds like it comes from the Democratic candidate in various Congressional Districts. The caller only finds out it’s an attack on the Democrat if they listen to the call all the way through. If they hang up, the machinery launches a barrage of calls in hopes of convincing them that Democrats are vindictive and attack anybody who is against them.

I hope these tactics will be exposed before election day because people should vote on the issues, not these sleazy, and childish, partisan dirty tricks.