Friday, August 7, 2009

Grassroots my (gr)ass: Robocalls Now Urging Town Hall Protests?

By GottaLaff



I don't know about you, but my robocall resources are nonexistent. Anyone else out there in grassrooty world have access to robocalling? Hands? On second thought, don't raise your hands, just feel free to shout me down and throw punches:

Marty Kady reports that yet another town hall meeting — this one held by Dem Rep Ann Kirkpatrick of Arizona — was overrun yesterday by protesters.

But this detail from Kady’s story jumps out:

Sources say the protesters showed up after a robocall — it’s unclear from whom — went out to Arizona voters encouraging them to show up at the event. The event was supposed to involve one on one chats with Kirkpatrick, a freshman member of Congress. [...]

Turns out that the anti-reform group Conservatives for Patients Rights called on activists to get out to this town hall on its Web site. But a CPR spokesman denied to me that his group was behind the robocalls.
So the question is, whodoneit?

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