Hear for yourself WVWV's Robo Caller "Lamont Williams" / NC Dem Leader Suspects Voter Suppression

[mod mom]

Hear a recording of "Lamont Williams":

http://www.democracy-nc.org/nc/spprncall.wav


WVWV SPOKESPERSON SARAH JOHNSON SAID BACK IN FEB THAT THEY WERE CORRECTING THEIR INFORMATION AND THAT IT ONLY PERTAINED TO VIRGINIA:

Steve Stone of the Virginia Pilot (Feb 9, 2008) reported:

"Sarah Johnson, communications director for the organization, said Friday that not including information about the source of the voter registration effort was "absolutely an accidental omission."

She said the group was changing its nationwide phone alerts to make clear who is coordinating the effort.

Johnson said that of all the states where the effort is under way, Virginia was the only one where there had been reports of problems.

-snip

http://hamptonroads.com/2008/02/state-police-investigate-possible-voter-registration-scam


BUT THE RECORDED CALL WAS RECEIVED JUST RECENTLY IN NORTH CAROLINA:

Local Democratic leader who received Women's Voices robo-call suspects voter suppression


As I've explained to several people, and as was reported on WTVD, the call I recorded and sent out was received at work, on the voicemail line that my wholesesale bread customers use to place their orders. I also received a call from the Obama campaign on the same line, two days prior to the call in question. My hypothesis about this -- and it remains a hypothesis, since I have no further empirical evidence -- is that both the Obama campaign and the WVWV were trolling around for unregistered voters.

The bakery where I work is in downtown Durham, in voting precinct #17, a low registration/high population (if you correlate voter reg w/Census data) district that looks like a hotspot for voter registration, going strictly by the numbers. The Obama campaign targeted this area with a robo call that emphasized same day registration/early vote. It was clear, concise, and contained all the necessary contact information.

The follow-up call from WVWV was anything but, and in my opinion, was designed for one purpose and one purpose alone: to sow confusion and suppress the vote.

I look at it this way. As a poster on another site noted when they posted the script for one of WVWV's radio/tv ads, they clearly know how to construct an informative and effective ad piece. Now let's look at what they did for this robo-call: an organization whose stated mission is registering single women to vote, an organization that notes, on its web site, the sponsorship of several noted female celebrities, this organization did not send out an informative, inspiring ("Hey ladies, it's time for women to stand up and be counted!") call using the voice of Christine Lahti or Julia Louis-Dreyfuss (a couple of their celebrity sponsors). Oh no, they sent out a dull, obscure, and mis-informative call using the voice of.......some guy named Lamont Williams.

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http://southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2008/05/local-democratic-leader-who-received.asp


SO WHAT IS IT-GROSS INCOMPETENCE OR MALFEASANCE? MORE QUESTIONS NEED TO BE ANSWERED!

[myrna minx]

1. K&R n/t

[Spazito]

2. I have come to the belief that it is BOTH....

Incompetence in that they had the SAME spokesperson, two and a half months and many states later, try and sell the ""absolutely an accidental omission." Competent malfeasance perpetrators would, one would think, at least ensure they had a different spokesperson to try and sell the lie this time. They can't even claim "the left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing".

Malfeasance in the fact they changed NOTHING from Feb to now, knowing in Feb the damage they were doing.

[redqueen]

3. Malfeasance. Has anyone in the press contacted her campaign for comment?

Hah... kidding... I know DAMN well they haven't. :rofl:

[mod mom]

5. This is a very well funded group-they should be able to be well versed on each state's

voting laws. If you consider they ignored the warnings from authorities that they received in Virginia back in early February, and couple this with continued erroneous information being given out....


Funny how the media is intent on focusing on the Wright controversy and ignore this. :mad:

[RiverStone]

4. OK, so what is NC doing about it to ensure that...

...voter suppression does NOT happen?

That is, before Tuesday? :shrug: