The call came in on my fax line, which is not listed anywhere, so I guess they were doing random calling.
It was a recorded message asking me to take a 45 second query. As far as I could remember it went like this:
Are you registered to vote?
Are you planning to vote in the March 31 election to fill Kirsten Gillibrand's seat?
Do you support Tedisco?
Do you support Scott Murphy?
Then the lies and misrepresentations started:
Does it bother you that Scott Murphy advocates raising taxes on senior citizens to pay for Social Security and Medicare?
Does it bother you that Scott Murphy is a businessman, but he hasn't paid all the taxes he owes the government?
Does it bother you that Scott Murphy thinks it's OK to let Wall Street excutives keep there bonuses?
(I said no to all the "questions" they asked.)
Then I decided to mess with their heads. Every answer I gave below is a lie.
Do you think of yourself as Pro-life? Yes
Do you consider yourself a Republican? Yes
Do you agree with the NRA that is important to protect the rights of gun owners? Yes (I was close to gagging now)
Then the call asked some 2 demographic questions - age and gender.
At the end they did indicate the call was paid for by the Jim Tedisco campaign.
The "Panic at Tedisco" continues. After finding their lead gone and now trailing, the NRCC drags Osama Bin Laden and 9/11 out of the bag of dirty tricks and now we've got robo push polling.
