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Today's Second Idiot(s) Nomination
It's 2 a.m. Do you know whom you're voting for? Not for someone so incompetent as to hire someone to awaken me in the middle of the night. That question confronted 3,000 voters across Peekskill, Cortlandt and Yorktown (NY) who were jarred awake by a campaign call for Democrat Domenic Volpe. Volpe is seeking to unseat county Legislator George Oros, R-Cortlandt, in Tuesday's election. "First of all, I hate those recorded messages," said registered Democrat Eileen Curinga of Montrose. "But secondly, I didn't know whether this was sabotage or just stupidity. Either way, its not right that somebody calls at 2 o'clock in the morning." The 30-second call attacking Oros over legislative pay raises targeted Democrats, Independence Party members and unaffiliated voters. Oros said he has heard from 40 people, many who thought the call was from him because they hung up before it finished. "I'm calling on him to contact all these people at a reasonable hour to apologize for waking them up and to assure them that the call came from his campaign and not mine," Oros said. Volpe said Next Big Thing, the Leesburg, Va.-based robocalling firm that issued the call, mistakenly programmed it to go out at 2 a.m. instead of 2 p.m. He said he'll apologize personally to each of the 150-plus people who called him to complain. "That was not the purpose of the call, to smear him (Oros) in any way," Volpe said, noting he, too, got the call at home. "It was just an issue-oriented robocall. The fact that it started at 2 a.m. is really the tragedy in this situation. My name ends the call, so it's not like it was only his name on the message." James Seirmarco, a registered Democrat from Buchanan, thought at first that he might have been singled out for the call. "My wife said it was because I had a George Oros sign out front," he said. Posted by: GK 2007-11-02 |
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