http://www.stoppoliticalcalls.org StopPoliticalCalls.org Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:21:45 CDT en-us http://www.stoppoliticalcalls.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/259359 http://www.stoppoliticalcalls.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/259359 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:02:42 CDT Not everyone is a fan of the calls. After working the phones during the 2004 presidential campaign, and taking a lot of heat from the people he called, Shaun Dakin decided to act. His Washington-based organization is trying to stop what he calls these unwelcome intrusions into people's lives. "This is yet another law that politicians have written for everyone else and have exempted themselves from the law," said Dakin. Dakin points to a study done at Yale that claimed robocalls were... http://www.stoppoliticalcalls.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/257152 http://www.stoppoliticalcalls.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/257152 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:53:12 CDT Shaun Dakin has created an online registry at StopPoliticalCalls.org in hopes of stopping robocalls from political candidates. His group, Citizens for Civil Discourse, distributes its "National Political Do Not Contact Registry database to politicians, political action committees, advocacy organizations and many other exempt groups and asks that they not call those voters that have registered," the website says. http://www.stoppoliticalcalls.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/257093 http://www.stoppoliticalcalls.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/257093 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:52:05 CDT They just spam us into oblivion, and it's really phone spam," said Shaun Dakin, the man behind the effort to create the National Political Do Not Contact Registry . Dakin said he's collected more than 160,000 phone numbers so far, about 5,000 of them from Arizona. http://www.stoppoliticalcalls.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/257095 http://www.stoppoliticalcalls.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/257095 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:54:45 CDT U.S. Senate candidate John Dougherty, who is facing former Tucson City Council member Rodney Glassman, former state lawmaker Cathy Eden and labor organizer Randy Parraz in the Democratic primary, says you won't be getting any robocalls from him: John Dougherty, Arizona Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, is speaking out against "robocalls." The automated phone calls that use computerized auto-dialers to deliver pre-recorded marketing messages are widely considered a nuisance.... http://www.stoppoliticalcalls.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/256927 http://www.stoppoliticalcalls.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/256927 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:45:09 CDT Local NBC news in Atlanta, GA about robocalls. Shaun Dakin is the Director of the National Political Do Not Call Registry. He says the group is in discussion with one Georgia congressional candidate who has vowed not to call voters with robocalls. Dr. Jody Hice is running as a Republican in Georgia's 7th Congressional District. If Dr. Hice is one candidate thinking of nixing the robocalls, he would be the only one. The automated calls are as much a part of the political season as... http://www.stoppoliticalcalls.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/256844 http://www.stoppoliticalcalls.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/256844 Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:35:08 CDT Guest on the first half is Kyle Roberts, CEO and President, Smart Media Group and in the second half Shaun Dakin, Founder The National Political Do Not Contact Registry. Topics on the show today include the Meg Whitman for Governor campaign in CA, targeting voters online as well as through traditional means, and use of phone and mobile, social media and other innovative ways to get a campaign message out. http://www.stoppoliticalcalls.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/254164 http://www.stoppoliticalcalls.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/254164 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:06:48 CDT Depending on volume, the calls cost approximately one-quarter of 1 cent each, far less than direct mail or media advertising, said Shaun Dakin, CEO and founder of the nonprofit, non-partisan Citizens for Civil Discourse, a group devoted to eliminating robocalls by asking politicians to voluntarily abstain from the practice. Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10152/1062194-58.stm#ixzz0pccokbCU