A press release from the Illinois General Assembly: Suburban lawmakers sponsor legislation to combat robo-calls Springfield, IL… Several suburban Republican senators are calling for legislative action on a bill that would put stricter consequences on those who are behind the … Continue reading
Category Archives: Robo-Calls
A friend of McHenry County Blog writes, “I live in Lake in the Hills. Jack was nice enough to robo call us that he just won an injunction against the lith sewer dept wasting our money and claimed if we … Continue reading
Republican District 6 County Board candidate Orville Brettman announced his candidacy via robo-call last night. Here is the text of his message: Hi .. My name is Orville Brettman and I’m running for the McHenry Country Board. Today June 5th … Continue reading
In the lead-up to the Nunda Township meeting last week, Township Trustee Mike Shorten utilized the following robo-call to encourage people to attend: Good afternoon… Once every four years the Nunda Township Board sets salaries for elected officials for the … Continue reading
Sunday McHenry County Republican Party Chairman Sandra Salgado made a robo-call pointing out that, contrary to a mailing from one of Lying Jack Franks supporters, Mike Walkup was the Republican candidate for McHenry County Board Chairman. Tonight a fake group … Continue reading
GOP McHenry County State’s Attorney candidate Patrick Kenneally robo-called the county urging people to vote. Probably didn’t offend as many people as most robo-calls do. … Continue reading
A Political Action Committee calling itself the “Independent Real Estate PAC” is making robo-calls. It is not a committee registered with the Illinois State Board of Elections, so who knows whose behind it. In any event, the phone call announces … Continue reading
The following robo-call from the McHenry County Republican Party went broadly across McHenry County Sunday afternoon. It was to correct the Lying Jack Franks mailing sent by an Illinois Realtors PAC. The voice was of GOP Chairman Sandra Salgado. Are … Continue reading
Republican State Rep. candidate Allen Skillicorn mailed out this rebuttal to a mailing and at least one robo-call from his Democratic opponent Nancy Zettler about a week and half ago. Skillicorn points voters to a web site called “ZettlerFackCheck.org.” … Continue reading
There have been comments about the large number of robo-calls attacking real Republican candidate for State Rep. against Jack Franks, Steve Reick. Here’s one from Barb Kelly: Suddenly received 2 glossy mailers and multiple robocalls with low blow personal attacks … Continue reading
The teacher union forces behind Democrat Arne Waltmire’s candidacy for County Board have made the following robo-call: Hi, this is Kate calling from Illinois Citizens for Accountability to let you know that Republicans Democrats and Independents finally agree on one … Continue reading
There was a big crowd at the Cary Village Board meeting Tuesday night. Part of the reason was the robo-call made by Cary Matters yesterday. The text is below: Did you know that the Village of Cary approved low income … Continue reading
I don’t know whether pitchforks and torches will be in evidence at tonight’s meeting of the Cary Village Board, but the group calling itself Cary Matters was placing robo-calls urging people to attend the meeting. You can read my article … Continue reading
The robo-call came the day before the election, Monday, at 1:25 PM from 202-220-0202. Here’s the text, read by a man with a deep voice: Dear Neighbor- Don’t be fooled. Michael Walkup is a long-time Democrat. In fact, as a … Continue reading
Got pretty much the same negative message about Presidential candidate Rick Santorum this morning that I got yesterday morning. Same “Santorum is not Pro-Life” message the middle of last week. Funny how McHenry County Pro-Lifers went to hear Newt Gingrich … Continue reading
The SuperPAC supporting Mitt Romney called me today and, in a voice that sounded like a gerbil on speed, told me all sorts of bad things Rick Santorum had done. “Santorum has a record. Don’t ignore it.” Less than an … Continue reading
This time from Paul Caprio, Executive Director of Family PAC. Here it is: FAMILY-PAC BLASTS QUINN TAX HIKE PROPOSAL Paul Caprio, Director of Family-Pac, today called proposals by Democratic leadership in Springfield to increase the state individual income tax by … Continue reading
The “news” at Congressman-Elect Joe Walsh’s first post-election Town Hall meeting in McHenry County was that he would not vote for the compromise tax bill being considered in Congress. But the take-away message was that constituents should expect a lot … Continue reading
Here is the direct mail piece designed to “close the sale” with voters. 4,700 in all. It would be interesting to compare the endorsements above with the ones Provenzano listed when he announced his candidacy last July. In an email … Continue reading
Not today. Today I heard this ever-so-positive ad on radio driving to pick up my son from school. But Friday night’s and Saturday’s phone calls were something else. A woman’s voice comes on the answering machine: “Hello. I’m calling with … Continue reading