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Nevermypresident

(781 posts) Wed Mar 21, 2018, 11:44 AM Mar 2018

Anyone here know if this is true? Just talked to Sen. Tillis staffer, [View all]

and asked him if it was accurate that Cambridge Analytica helped with his 2014 campaign here in N.C.

Staffer said they were forbidden by Senate rules to discuss campaign matters with anyone.

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Anyone here know if this is true? Just talked to Sen. Tillis staffer, [View all] Nevermypresident Mar 2018 OP

Off the top of my head I doubt there are Senate rules to that effect. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2018 #1

Actually, they are forbidden from admitting madaboutharry Mar 2018 #2

+1 NCTraveler Mar 2018 #7

:) Hortensis Mar 2018 #12

Senator Tillis himself, has a big IT background... HipChick Mar 2018 #3

No, he's lying. What a shock. onecaliberal Mar 2018 #4

You might try mailing a letter to his office avebury Mar 2018 #5

Yep. He was one of the first. kentuck Mar 2018 #6

Senate rules? Really? Written by top men, no doubt gratuitous Mar 2018 #8

the Raleigh News observer and WRAL have had a couple of articles on this subject octoberlib Mar 2018 #9

North Carolina voters were among the first to be targeted by Cambridge Analytica octoberlib Mar 2018 #10

I think that is true....they can't use government office for campaign talk. Demsrule86 Mar 2018 #11