ROFL!!!...I saw this story as part of the daily news clippings I receive at work. I'm glad FReepers are picking these up.
There was another story I saw this morning that said that listeners to KFI last week called the governor's office to urge him to veto the air emissions legislation, but the number they called was the press office, not the legislative or constitutent service office. Consequently, a Davis staffer said that "all the calls were in vain," meaning that the press office didn't have the decency to either refer callers to the appropriate office, or didn't inform the appropriate office of all the calls it was getting on that legislation.
I've been listening to KFI every day, following this story. This is on the John and Ken show, 3pm-7pm Pacific. They've been ragging on that stupid 'greenhouse gas' bill nearly nonstop. When the Forces of Evil managed to sneak that bill through the legislature, J&K went ballistic and started urging their listeners to call Davis and urge a veto. They also had a Davis press flack on and were absolutely merciless, and actually shouting at the guy and calling the legislative supporters of the bill 'hippies'. They also scoffed when the flack said that Davis hadn't made up his mind and still needed to 'read the bill,' asking the guy why Davis didn't know what was in it by now, considering the notoriety and extreme pressure that it had gotten. The flack finally hung up on them. Then when they discovered that all the calls to the normal governor comment line we just going to voice mail hell, they gave out the press office number. The head press guy called the station management and went nuts, calling J&K 'boneheads'. They love that. On the second day, they started giving out other internal Davis administration phone numbers. The press office retaliated by call-forwarding their incoming lines to the incoming lines of the KFI press room, jamming them. Some phone company employee called to comment that that was probably illegal under Federal law, because that law requires that call-forwarding be done only with the permission of the recipient.
At one point, they gave out the phone numbers of the district offices and had people calling there, then reporting on the air what they were told. Turns out the staffers answering the phones were lying to the callers, telling them that calls had generally been running in favor. Doubtful, since the J&K listeners were about the only ones getting though. One caller reported that he challenged that statement and the staffer giggled and admitted that they've been fudging.
It's been quite a circus, and I expect the hilarity to continue today. (Infoing you on this story too, Ernest. Thought you might be amused.)