Peter Roskam’s robo-call service seems to be calling up a storm these days judging from the number of hits I’m getting on strings like ” why is Peter Roskam calling me” and “stop roskam calls”. Roskam’s latest taxpayer-funded misinformation campaign is a series of “Tele-Townhall” events where Roskam purportedly wants to hear his constituents concerns regarding healthcare reform. Roskam’s mind is, of course, already made up regarding healthcare reform. He is going to do everything in his power to see that universal coverage never happens. These events are designed to scare susceptible voters into siding with him.
My suspicion is that these events are rigged to give Roskam a sympathetic audience. Why? Because 3 times in the past month or so, I have ANSWERED a robo-call to hear Roskam’s recorded voice telling me that Roskam is presently talking to my fellow constituents about healthcare and that he’s sorry that he missed me. This happened again just yesterday when he hosted his most recent event. So my theory is that Roskam has a phone list for his constituents which he cross-references with primary voter rolls or campaign contribution data or even just zip code demographic data to determine who may and who may not be a safe participant. “Safe” receipients get invited into the conference. Unsafe recipients, like me, get the “sorry I missed you” message. And Roskam can still say he called everyone.It would be no great feat to accomplish this with a minimal knowledge of relational databases.
So that’s my theory. I can’t prove it and I might be dead wrong. But Roskam has a history of playing dirty in campaigns and that history raises my suspicion level.
Would be very interested to hear from anyone their thoughts on this or their experience of one of these meetings. Would also be very happy to hear from Peter Roskam his explanation of the “sorry I missed you” calls.
Related posts:
- Taxpayer-funded Junk Mail from Peter Roskam on Healthcare Reform
- Peter Roskam’s 5 Principles for Healthcare Reform
- Why Are My Tax Dollars Being Used for Peter Roskam’s Campaign Mail?
- Peter Roskam Email Enrages Constituents
- Is Representative Luis Gutierrez Really Going to Unite with Peter Roskam to Kill Healthcare Reform?
