Lamont Williams: Come on Down!
Wired has the best stuff on the juicy scandal still percolating with D.C.-based Women’s Voices. Women’s Vote, which admits to being behind some high-tech “anonymous” phone calls going to primarily black households in North Carolina. The calls from a Lamont Williams imply improper voter registration and give instructions on re-registering, only the voters there have not necessarily improperly registered and the instructions to wait for a packet in the mail and send in another application would put voters well past the deadline to vote in Tuesday’s primary. Virginia State Police investigated similar robo-calls before VA’s primaries last February, also sourced to Women’s Voices. Women Vote.
The group’s president (and Duke grad, no less) is Page Gardner of Northern Virginia, who has been making the rounds in this hamster-wheel primary to talk about the impact of single women. According to the Institute for Southern Studies and OpenSecrets.org, Gardner has contributed $6,700 to Hillary Clinton in one form or another in 2005 and 2006. Her total contribution to the Obama campaign: $0.
Gardner does have a response to all of this: “We apologize for any confusion our calls may have caused.” That may not be enough for the Attorney General.
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May 1st, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Can’t trust a Duke grad. Trust me on this.
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:01 am
See Facing South’s website, they are the ones who investigated and traced the anonymous calls to WVWV.
You see, the calls were made with phones that blocked the identity of the callers, and the call itself did not identify the organization sponsoring the calls, nor how to contact that organization.
This group has caused chaos in at least 10 other states, and waited until 2 weeks after the deadline for mail in registrations to tell voters that they would receive a form in the mail that they must complete AND THEN THEY COULD VOTE.
IF WVWV really wanted people to register to vote, they would have told voters that they could register to vote in person right now at early voting sites through May 3rd.
But instead, they created chaos.