[papasmurf]

Per Palmetto Scoop dot com

This the company doing it...ccAdvertising.

The firm that’s been doing the calls on Common Sense Issues’ behalf is ccAdvertising (also known as FreeEats.com). And their legal record isn’t encouraging. That company has already lost twice in federal court. In 2004, they challenged North Dakota’s do-not-call law and lost (they’d made approximately 235,000 calls polling a range of GOP hot-button issues). The company was fined $20,000. And in 2006, they challenged Indiana’s do-not-call law and lost (the group made 400,000 calls attacking Rep. Byron Hill (D-IN)). [PAUL KIEL - TPMmuckraker]

[Petronski]

The company was fined $20,000.

Any campaign willing to sink to this level would gladly pay that (or multiples thereof) to get the calls made. Twenty grand is just a cost of doing business.

The fines should be increased by an entire order of magnitude (or two), and there should be jail time attached.

Meantime, see this:

Actual pushpoll call

Someone had the foresight to capture one.