Not at Home
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11/10/2006
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Topeka Capital-Journal
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There may be a way to eliminate one annoying aspect of political campaigns - those annoying phone calls with the recorded message supporting or opposing a candidate.
We should demand that our state legislators and members of Congress determine the legality of adding provisions to the state and federal Do-Not-Call lists to preclude political recordings.
New Hampshire is already having some success with such a law, although the effectiveness apparently hasn't been tested in court.
The New Hampshire attorney general's office has said that the National Republican Campaign Committee had agreed to stop calling homes on the federal Do-Not-Call registry. A spokesman for the NRCC declined to confirm the agreement.
New Hampshire state law says political campaigns may contact people on the Do-Not-Call list, but can't use automated recordings.
The state and federal Do-Not-Call lists have reduced the number of commercial phone calls we get at home. Now let's stop the politicians from bothering us at home.
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