"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast" -Oscar Wilde |
"The liberal soul shall be made fat, and he that watereth, shall be watered also himself." -- Proverbs 11:25 |
As widely reported, the FBI is investigating complaints that "phony callers tried to intimidate Virginia voters" as well as misdirect them to incorrect polling places. According to MSNBC, Sen. George Allen's campaign manager Chris LaCivita stated the calls "sure as heck [are] not coming from the Allen campaign."
However, LaCivita is a former lobbyist and associate with the DCI Group, a public affairs company with a history of vote tampering via the telephone, with techniques like push-polling and phone jamming.
In addition, Friends of George Allen, the Senator's principal campaign committee, has made numerous payments to emotive, LLC, a VA firm with connections to the DCI Group, and that offers their clients "direct response fundraising and voter persuasion."
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Although a full accounting has not been completed, Allen's campaign paid emotive, LLC $6000 on 6/26/06 according to their expenditure filings with the FEC.