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Freedom's Watch targets 30 Dem-held seats with robocalls on military pay

Submitted by Soren Dayton on Wed, 06/04/2008 - 17:38
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Freedom's Watch is targetting 30 congressional districts held by Democrats with robocalls attacking Democrats record on military issues. Listen to the robocall here.

The districts are:

AZ-05, AZ-08, CA-51, CA-11, CT-2, FL-16, GA-08, IL-08, KS-02, LA-06, MD-05, MD-08, MS-01, NH-01, NV-01, NY-20, OH-18, PA-07, PA-10, PA-08, PA-12, TX-22, TX-23, CT-05, KY-03, NH-02, PA-04, WI-08, NY-19, IL-14

With the exception of MD-08 (Rep. Van Hollen, the DCCC Chair), these are districts that many analysts think that the GOP can apply pressure and/or seats that the Dems took in 2006.

The calls, featuring Beverly Perlson, the founder of Band of Mothers, discuss the Congressional Democrats leaving for vacation while the troop funding bill has not been passed. Mrs. Perlson has written about this at NRO.

 

The script is after the jump.

Hello, I'm Beverly Perlson calling for Freedom's Watch.

My son, John, just returned from his 4th tour in Iraq and Afghanistan- and I'm tremendously proud of him.

But I'm not proud of Congress...

Last week, Congress left for vacation without providing our troops the funding they need.

As a result, Admiral Mike Mullen, our nation's highest-ranking military officer, warned our troops' paycheck were in jeopardy.

This is one military mom who takes it personally.

I'm not just embarrassed by our ungrateful and irresponsible Congress - I'm angry.

And no matter your view on the war, you should be, too.

Call Congressman Chris Van Hollen at 301-424-3501

Tell him to wrap up his vacation, get back to work, and vote to pay our troops.

Paid for by Freedom's Watch. 202-379-3742

 

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I don't know if this is going to have much impact.

Submitted by St. Louis Conse... on Wed, 06/04/2008 - 18:30.

Certainly, I and others on this site think this is a legitimate issue, but I don't know if your average voter is going to get fired up about  military pay.

Plus...

Submitted by Kevin Boyd on Wed, 06/04/2008 - 20:02.

People just get annoyed with issue-related robocalls. A better way to get the message across is running radio or TV ads in those districts.

Yeah, I've gotten two calls

Submitted by amerpun on Wed, 06/04/2008 - 20:17.

Yeah, I've gotten two calls already.

The downside of this of course

Submitted by RedMango on Wed, 06/04/2008 - 20:24.

Is that Obama can easily say without batting an eyelid that he will triple troop salaries and leaving the GOP in the position to get caught trying to stop such budget-busting insanity.  Then Dems would say, "See!  They want to starve the military." 

Let's have something that doesn't require spending more money. 

Good Grief

Submitted by texicali on Wed, 06/04/2008 - 21:23.

we have an independent group TRYING to do something positive for our troops and yall want to go ho hum?  This is a good time for robocalls and this is a good cause and an important point.....it would be a good move for McCain to push this as well and not let the Dems take any lead in this endeavor with their blatant hypocrisy

Freedom's Watch is Stupid

Submitted by Shawn Parker on Thu, 06/05/2008 - 09:47.

No, I am sorry.  No, I am not sorry. 

I can't think of a more worthless organization that we have on the right.  Yes they have tons and tons of money, but they waste it on crap like this that does nothing.  Because  - goodness knows that people love Robocalls.  This is  such a waste...  I wish Freedoms Watch would just go away, they haven't made a positive influence on any race and have only  brought in outdated tactics and messages that have hurt the Republican brand.