I'm SHOCKED!!

I'm SHOCKED!!

This doesn't sound like the Clintons, at all!

PS - I'm hosting a house party for the Hillary-O'Reilly Slugfest.  I'm sure she's going to knock his lights out!

Apparently not from Camp Obama.

...always going in the gutter to make false claims and playing the race card as this diary shows.

Is a shame.

Obama himself acknowledges his dirty negative campaign, but decides to stay in the gutter.

When this is all done, the one thing that won't be associated with Obama is honesty.

Did you go to the site? Check it out; this is a real story affecting voters, unlike, say, Wright.

This is despicable. And it it is serious. You can continue to talk about Wright. I certainly don;t care. But an organized effort to disenfranchise African-American voters on the part of people sympathetic to Clinton will not go over well among Democrats and, particularly, superdelegates.

Desperation is, indeed, an ugly thing.

Yes, there is a recording of the calls.  You'd have known that if you had bothered to check.

besides the people who made them ALREADY admitting that they they are responsible for the robo calls, yes there is audio of the calls

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

Some have also questioned the ties between Women's Voices operatives and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton. Gardner, for example, contributed $2,500 to Clinton's HILLPAC on May 4, 2006, and in March 2005 she donated a total of $4,200 to Clinton, according to The Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org. She has not contributed to the Obama campaign, according to the database.

Women's Voices Executive Director Joe Goode worked for Bill Clinton's election campaign in 1992 as a pollster; the group's website says he was intimately involved in "development and implementation of all polling and focus groups done for the presidential primary and general election campaigns" for Clinton.

Women's Voices board member John Podesta, former Chief of Staff for President Bill Clinton, donated $2,300 to Hillary Clinton on April 19, 2007, according to OpenSecrets.org.

I was a huge fan of WVWV -- their work in 2006 was important and helped us win races.  This is stunning.

Let's see:

1. Yes, there are recordings.  And it's been on the news already in NC.

2. Maggie Williams is on their advisory board.  That is an indisputable affiliation to Hillary Clinton.  PLUS...

3. John Podesta, one of their board members, used to work for Bill Clinton.  AND...

4. Joe Goode, their executive director, worked for Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign.

5. It's not just NC.  It's a whole slew of states: Virginia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Florida, Louisiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Arkansas.

To me, the single most damning thing on this list is the presence of Maggie Williams.

Is there a recording of these calls to prove the allegations being made?

Um.... several, actuallly.

. Also, many who have received the calls -- like Kevin Farmer in Durham, who made a tape of the call that is available here -- are already registered. The call's suggestion that they're not registered has caused widespread confusion and drawn hundreds of complaints, including many from African-American voters who received the calls.

Do you people read diaries, much less links?

Yeah there are recordings.

lay off that Kool-aid will ya! and stop smearing people without proof. for someone so intellectually challeneged and lacking honest rational thought here is the full story of Wright at NPC:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcal derone/0408/Press_Club_President_respond s_Reynolds_pitched_Rev_Wright_two_years_ ago.html

National Press Club president Sylvia Smith responded today to a Daily News article reporting that club member Barbara Reynolds, a Hillary Clinton supporter, organized yesterday's breakfast talk with Dr. Jeremiah Wright Jr.

Smith said by phone this morning that she still doesn't know if Reynolds supports Clinton, and doesn't care either way.

"Reverend Wright is newsworthy, period," Smith said. "

http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcal derone/0408/Press_Clubs_Reynolds_Im_not_ a_Clinton_supporter.html

As I reported earlier, Reynolds had pitched the idea two years ago to have Wright speak at a club luncheon, but the speakers' committee did not go forward with the idea. In June 2007, Reynolds helped bring Wright to the club for a panel discussion that was no sponsored by the NPC.

So it seems incorrect to say that Reynolds offered to help bring Wright to the club solely because of the current primary race. She's a Howard University professor of divinity, ordained minister, and knows Wright personally. And she's been involved with putting on Wright events, with other church leaders, in the past.

p.s. not that any of the above really matters because people like you will still spew hatred and dishonest lies come what may.

Wright is now 'controlled' by Hillary?

Now I've heard just about everything.

Literally.

Everything.

Must be Obama's "kitchen sink" strategery.

a ventriloquist and put all of the wrong words in Wright's mouth.

... is on their board.

Really.  Maggie Williams isn't currently a Clinton employee?  So she's managing Clinton's campaign for free, is she?

They pulled the same crap in multiple states. The Virginia State Police investigated the calls. This is a big story, whether you like it or not.

sure maybe if it were one state

but many the add these to the diary

In Arizona last November, election officials were "inundated with complaints" after Women's Voices sent a mailing erroneously claiming that recipients were "required" to mail back an enclosed voter registration form. Many who received the mailing were already registered; the mailing also gave the wrong registration date. Secretary of State Jan Brewer denounced the group's tactics as "misleading and deceptive." A similar mailing in Colorado that month "[drew] fire and caused confusion," according to a state press release.

* In Wisconsin, state officials singled out Women's Voices for misleading and possibly disenfranchising voters, stating in a press release [PDF]: "One group in particular -- Women's Voices. Women Vote, of Washington, D.C. -- apparently ignored or disregarded state deadlines in seeking to register voters," sending in registrations past the January 30 deadline and causing "hundreds of Wisconsin voters who think they registered in advance" to actually not be.

* Michigan officials ended up "fielding tons of calls from confused voters" after Women's Voices did a February mailing to "380,000 unmarried women" -- including numerous deceased voters and even more that were already registered. Sarah Johnson of Women's Voices "seemed confused by the confusion," the Lansing State Journal reported.

* A 1.5 million-piece Women's Voices mailing in Florida falsely stated: "To comply with state voting requirements, please return the enclosed application." Pasco County's elections supervisor called it "disingenuous"; another said it created "a lot of unnecessary panic on behalf of the voters," reported local newspapers. Sarah Johnson of Women's Voice said, "I'm sorry to hear that."

* By March, Women's Voices was backing off the erroneous "registration is required" language, but there were still problems. For example, a mailing in Arkansas allowed that "registering to vote is voluntary," but a clerk in Washington County reported that "the majority [of forms] sent back to the county come from registered voters, causing needless labor for office employees."

boy they sure seem to have alot of well-intentioned but quite inept accidents huh?

The call is deceptive because the deadline has already passed for mail-in registrations for North Carolina's May 6 primary. Also, many who have received the calls -- like Kevin Farmer in Durham, who made a tape of the call that is available here -- are already registered. The call's suggestion that they're not registered has caused widespread confusion and drawn hundreds of complaints, including many from African-American voters who received the calls.

The calls are also probably illegal. Farmer and others have told Facing South the calls use a blocked phone number and provided no contact information -- a violation of North Carolina rules regulating "robo-calls" (N.C. General Statute 163-104(b)(1)c). N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper further stated in a recent memo that the identifying information must be clear enough to allow the recipient to "complain or seek redress" -- something not included in the calls.

It is also a Class I felony in North Carolina "to misrepresent the law to the public through mass mailing or any other means of communication where the intent and the effect is to intimidate or discourage potential voters from exercising their lawful right to vote."

This is classic voter suppression, just as in Florida in 2000 or in Ohio in 2004.

The call's suggestion that they're not registered has caused widespread confusion and drawn hundreds of complaints, including many from African-American voters who received the calls.

Read. The. Article.

It's very disgusting, in an informative sort of way.

It has been reported that AA voters are the ones primarily rec'ving the calls in North Carolina.

But, thanks for your indignant bullshit, it really added to the conversation

You need to read more carefully. From the article:

First, a quick recap: As we covered yesterday, N.C. residents have reported receiving peculiar automated calls from someone claiming to be "Lamont Williams." The caller says that a "voter registration packet" is coming in the mail, and the recipient can sign it and mail it back to be registered to vote. No other information is provided.

The call is deceptive because the deadline has already passed for mail-in registrations for North Carolina's May 6 primary. Also, many who have received the calls -- like Kevin Farmer in Durham, who made a tape of the call that is available here -- are already registered. The call's suggestion that they're not registered has caused widespread confusion and drawn hundreds of complaints, including many from African-American voters who received the calls.

The calls have been denounced by the N.C. State Board of Elections, as well as by voter advocacy groups including Democracy North Carolina, which called them "another in a long line of deceptive practices used in North Carolina and elsewhere that particularly target African-American voters."

   Linda...can you not read? Or is that your attention is just short?

  Read the whole article.