Here's actor Lamont Williams, likely Voice of the Illegal Robo Calls >>>

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Mon May-05-08 01:17 PM
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Here's actor Lamont Williams, likely Voice of the Illegal Robo Calls >>>

Edited on Mon May-05-08 02:16 PM by Stephanie

This has got to be the guy. He is an actor in this Norfolk, VA theater company.

http://stagenorfolk.org/pb/wp_8aee5742/wp_8aee5742.html?0.12298260624560453

http://stagenorfolk.org/pb/wp_a1b0403d/wp_a1b0403d.html?0.781787924634153

LAMONT WILLIAMS

Vice-President

A native of Norfolk, Virginia Mr. Williams was educated at Norview High School and a majored in Music at Old Dominion University. A seasoned television actor, he has made numerous appearances in such shows as the Discovery Channel�s FBI Files, The New Detectives, and The Prosecutor�s. He also landed roles in two of their two-hour �Movie�s of the Week,� including Escape From Death Row, and Code of Silence. A former model for Headline Creations, Mr. Williams has appeared in several print ads and television commercials for such clients as: Merchant Square, The 700 Club (3 different spots), The Promise Keepers, Tidewater Dodge, one regional spot for the Virginia Beach Tourist Association, which earned him eligibility with the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), and an international commercial entitled The Turning Point. He also was featured in two mini film shorts for the Virginia Department of Health, Norfolk Health District. Mr. Williams�s stage credits include performances in Terrance Afer-Anderson�s The Fifth, Crown of Life, and Rainbow Park, having portrayed two different characters in the latter production. Other stage credits include performances in Who Moved My Cheese and the portrayal of 15 different characters in We Love You, Jackie. In 1999, Mr. Williams landed the lead role in PBS affiliate WHRO-TV, Channel 15�s Virginia Pathways production of Civil Rights, an enlightening educational film targeting 4th through 7th graders at every elementary and middle school in the state of Virginia.

Will the Real Lamont Williams Please Stand Up? -- Update
By Sarah Lai Stirland May 03, 2008 | 8:05:00 PMCategories: Election '08

Who is Lamont Williams?

That's the question on many a blogger's mind since the story about the direct mail and illegal robo-call voter-registration drive broke earlier this week in North Carolina.

African-American voters in North Carolina received automated, anonymous phone calls from a mysterious man named Lamont Williams a week ago. The voice informed them that they would be receiving a voter-registration packet in the mail, and it asked them to sign and return it.

The only problem is that the mail-in voter-registration deadline in North Carolina had passed, and some of the call's recipients had already registered.

The North Carolina attorney general's office is investigating the incident, which it says may be illegal because the calls didn't identify their sponsors and offer recipients a way to opt out.

A D.C.-based voter-registration group called Women's Voices, Women Vote was responsible for the campaign, and has apologized for confusing voters.

The anonymous calls using the unknown male persona look especially strange since the voter-registration group has, in the past, used high-profile celebrities to advance their cause. And everything the group has said about its mission before this week has indicated that it exclusively targets unmarried women.

Consider this price list (.pdf), found on the group's website, in which WVWV offers to sell its database. "WVWV targets only unmarried women, including divorced or widowed women," the document reads. "WVWV has used state-of-the-art technology and data-mining and analysis techniques in order to accurately identify these women and encourage them to register and turn out to vote."

There's nothing in there, or anywhere else on its website, about the group expanding to target African-American men.

The group said Thursday that Lamont Williams is the real name of the voice performer they hired for the 20-second recording. Threat Level searched the top voice talent agencies with online databases, and didn't find Mr. Williams.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/05/calling-on-lamo.html

More info here >

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5821448