Dirty Tricks Used against Gray Campaign

[jsteele]

Apparently someone has been calling DC voters with a phone disguised to appear like it belongs to the Gray campaign (Gray's campaign number shows up in caller ID). The caller simply hangs up when the phone is answered. A Gray press release says the following:

The Vince Gray For Mayor telephone numbers have been hijacked by someone who has masked their telephone number identification with the campaign’s number.This person is making prank calls to residents. Hundreds of residents have called into the campaign office, complaining that someone is contacting them from the campaign and hanging up. Verizon security control and the Metropolitan Police Department have been notified of the calls, and authorities are seeking to identify the person or persons responsible. We ask that anyone who receives these calls to contact Verizon security control at 1-800-483-6922.

[Anonymous]

If this gets traced back to the Fenty campaign, it won't be pretty.

[Anonymous]

In your wet dreams. Keep smoking that bong you lit at your Aerosmith concert. Or just play, "Dream on", and start jacking off. Enjoy.

[Anonymous]

If it's fraud, it won't be too hard to trace down. You can mask your phone number and caller ID info, but the phoe records always have the underlying source.

That said, if Gray is using call center software, sometimes it pre-dials numbers and queues them. If they do that, there is a certain probability that some person answers when their phone rings and there is no available staffer in the call center to take it right away, leaving the person with nothing but silence. I'd hate for them to make a big deal out of this and then find out that it was an innocent mistake by some phone system programmer.

[Anonymous]

To Jeff. So are you voting for Gray or Fenty? I'd love to hear your reason for why you picked one over the other.

Also, I saw 2 Fenty ads on TV today, one with a small business owner and the other with Jack Evans. Fenty has staked his claim in being business friendly, open to new residents. I'll take that "asshole" but effective leader any day.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:To Jeff. So are you voting for Gray or Fenty? I'd love to hear your reason for why you picked one over the other.

None of the above. If Fenty were just an asshole, I could put up with it. However, he is running the city as if it's his family's business. Gray simply lacks leadership. While I understand that politicians like to see which way the wind is blowing before making a decision, Gray actually waits until the wind has already blown him someplace. So, neither one of these guys is getting my vote.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:... So, neither one of these guys is getting my vote.

That raises the question: Will you protest by not voting in the mayoral primary or by voting for someone who will almost definitely lose but comes closer to your idea of an acceptable candidate? If the latter, who? Similarly for November.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:... So, neither one of these guys is getting my vote.

That raises the question: Will you protest by not voting in the mayoral primary or by voting for someone who will almost definitely lose but comes closer to your idea of an acceptable candidate? If the latter, who? Similarly for November.

I'll definitely go to the polls for the primary because there are other important seats on the ballot. Most likely I'll leave the mayoral choice blank because the minor candidates are even worse. In November, I'll vote Statehood/Green for mayor.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:I'll definitely go to the polls for the primary because there are other important seats on the ballot. Most likely I'll leave the mayoral choice blank because the minor candidates are even worse. In November, I'll vote Statehood/Green for mayor.

Speaking of S/G, based on what little I have seen so far, I can imagine voting for Ann Wilcox for Council Chair, but do you consider Faith a serious choice for mayor?

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:do you consider Faith a serious choice for mayor?

Well, based on the statement in the other thread that we should have a mayor who is "F-able", I believe she is my only choice.