Sentences with phrase «as robocalls»

These calls are sometimes referred to as robocalls.

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As if «robocalls» aren't annoying enough, companies want to change the law so it's legal to make them to your cellphone.

And by vowing to never answer my phone again, I might be a terrible journalist, but I'm at least doing my part as a member of the robocall resistance.

And he has been responding with robocalls that cast the PAC as a «single - issue, out - of - state» organization.

Former Vice President Joe Biden has recorded a robocall as part of a get - out - the - vote effort in the key 37th Senate district in Westchester County.

In the last - minute robocall Cuomo recorded for «my friend» Meng, which her campaign just released this evening, Cuomo notes he is a «Queens guy, as you know, born and raised» and therefore knows «what it takes to represent our Queens neighborhoods and families,» adding:

One factor behind this evolution is that fact that the internet's main rivals as communications channels (general - audience broadcast advertising, phonebanking / robocalls and direct mail) are all gradually losing effectiveness as a result of a variety of factors including increased competition for viewer attention, cable channel proliferation, cell phone ubiquity, and overall junk - mail resistance.

At the same time, there has been a nationalized push on the race, with Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee and Emily's List becoming involved as well as former Vice President Joe Biden recording a robocall.

Here's the robocall recorded for Democratic NY - 26 candidate Kathy Hochul by former President Clinton as the party pulls out all the stops headed into the home strech of tomorrow's special election:

As Liz reported earlier, Hanna signed onto the bill sponsored by Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, but the correct paperwork was yet to be delivered to the Brooklyn lawmaker's office at the time of Koch's robocall announcement.

The news of the robocall comes almost simultaneously with word that Owens, like Democrat Dan Maffei in central New York, has filed a court order to impound ballots ahead of tomorrow's vote — a sign that the race against Republican Matt Doheny will be as close as the public polls have suggested.

On the heels of his endorsement from Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday, former President Bill Clinton has recorded a robocall for Rep. Charlie Rangel's campaign as he seeks a 23rd term in office.

Fo far, the mayor has stopped short of reclassifying Skelos and his conference as reform enemies and unleashing a torrent of negative robocalls against them.

Quinn campaigned for the line, going as far as to record a robocall for the new party and urging voters to support it.

Stuart Appelbaum, the head of the retail workers» union who is a Kathleen Rice backer in the AG primary, says he got a robocall this weekend from state Sen. Eric Schneiderman's campaign denouncing the Nassau County DA as a former Republican and saying he's «one of us.»

Democratic Senate candidate Regina Calcaterra's campaign has posted the audio of a robocall received by a resident of the 1st SD that reveals the Republicans were trying to gague public reaction to a possible government shutdown over the weekend even as they signaled a willingness to provide votes to avoid it.

After declining the offer, DiMarzio targeted her with robocalls as she ran for reelection against Republican challenger Anthony Nunziato in 2008, saying she did not have Catholic values, Markey said.

«She's really got all the technology and people working on it, as opposed to just robocalls,» said Watertown Mayor Jeff Graham, an Independent who was backing Stefanik.

As the special election in the NY - 9 comes down to the wire, former President Bill Clinton and Gov. Andrew Cuomo recorded robocalls for Democrat David Weprin.

Shaun Dakin, a voter privacy advocate and longtime critic of political robocalling, flagged the Obama app last week as a «total privacy fail.»

While Mayor Bloomberg has recorded a robocall on his behalf, as did President Bill Clinton over the weekend, most people have shied away from Rangel as he has become a national target for Republicans.

At the same time, the group this week reported an additional $ 13,870 was spent on robocalls in support of Jackson, as well as $ 21,300 in Facebook and digital advertising.

The candidates themselves and the parties backing them have continued to spend as well, including a robocall in which Mel Brooks urged voters to back his great nephew Kaminsky, but won't need to disclose their last - minute spending until May 16.

Some who had expressed early support for the bill were said to be wavering amid what council members described as a torrent of robocalls and fliers in certain districts in opposition to the measure, which would cover retail stores, grocers, bodegas and many street vendors.

If such a thing as a do - not - call list exists, then robocalls should also be regulated in the same way.

As Liz blogged earlier this morning, the governor cut a robocall for Democratic hopeful Chris Fahey, an aide to Rep. Brian Higgins who is running in the 145th AD.

While some caucus attendees received a letter in the mail from Helsmoortel, asking for Republican caucus support for himself as a supervisor candidate and Fred Costello and Leanne Thornton for the Town Board, Ciarlante used robocalls, those modern - day annoying pre-recorded telephone messages.

It also involves robocalls to Pennsylvania voters to «help you welcome your newest Democrat senator» that use audio from Specter's old campaign ads - audio featuring what the NRSC describes as «glowing support» from former President George W. Bush.

Teachout's campaign paid $ 70,000 to Signia Marketing for robocalls, $ 40,000 to the Progressive Campaign Change Committee for voter ID information, as well as $ 9,105 to Kantor Davidoff for legal services.

Whether tests are designed by the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SCAC) or the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), schools nationwide are most likely beginning those additional meetings, signing legal documents full of security warnings, and sending out robocalls with such sage wisdom as «Get sleep.»

Troutman discusses the implications of hot TCPA topics such as the Reyes Decision and the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act.

Broadly speaking, the TCPA prohibits the use of automatic telephone dialing systems (colloquially known as «robocalls») to dial a consumer's cellular phone without the consumer's prior express consent.

To provide an answer to the titled question, this month Lawyer Monthly reached out to the Law Offices of Scott Warmuth, where Attorney Nathaniel Clark explains, with a complex court judgment as the foundation, the ins and outs of autodialing and robocalls in the US.

May 30, 2013 - Connecticut's motor vehicle department, insurance regulatory office and attorney general are warning drivers there about robocalls seeking personal information, saying they've used DMV - supplied data to identify them as being eligible for lower insurance rates.

(Even as we wrote this, we got a robocall on our cellphone.)