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Jan 3, 2009 Robo Award Winners Video segment by reporter Scott Hurley on the Robos! Fox TV (WI) more...
Jan 2, 2009 I hate robocalls, you hate robocalls You know, those automated calls from political candidates and their surrogates that reached absolute saturation a couple of months back. Pick the worst of them here. The Fayetteville Observer more...
Jan 2, 2009 Texan voice behind "weirdest robocall of 2008" The winner for "weirdest" robocall of the year went to Austinite Robbert Morrow, who flooded phonelines in South Carolina in January with allegations about Bill and HIllary Clinton's White House years. Click here to listen to the call. The Star Telegram (TX) more...
Jan 2, 2009 The First Annual Robos Leading the voting in the weirdest category on Dakins website was the anti-Hillary call launched and paid for by Robert Morrow, a longtime anti-Clinton activist. The call went out to some voters in South Carolina before last year Democratic primary there. Politics Magazine more...
Jan 1, 2009 Anti-Hillary robocalls nabs award South Carolina's reputation for bare-knuckle politics will get a boost because it was home to the weirdest political phone call in the 2008 presidential campaign. The Post & Courier (SC) more...
Dec 29, 2008 Two California robocalls make Top 10 Hall of Shame list Article about the top 10 Worst Robocalls of 2008. Contra Costa Times (CA) more...
Dec 23, 2008 Top Ten Robo-Calls Of The Election Year Revealed Coverage of the top 10 Robocalls of the year. Huffington Post more...
Dec 19, 2008 StopPoliticalCalls.org wins award Short story about our Mashable Open Web Award Win. by Jennifer Nycz.Conner Staff Reporter Washington Business Journal more...
Dec 18, 2008 The 'Robos' Fox news segment on the Robos! The award for the worst and weirdest robocalls of the 2008 election. Fox News (11-WI) more...
Dec 15, 2008 Turning Robocalls into a Contest Story about the Robos! The award for the best and weirdest robo call by Shawn Zeller of CQ. Congressional Quarterly more...
Nov 4, 2008 The Union Of Politics And Telemarketing -- What's Not To Like? Robocalls -- those recorded, automatically dailed phone messages -- have been lighting up phones everywhere the past few days. Nobody seems to like getting them. Some are innocuous -- the standard fare of campaigns and candidates. But then there are underhanded, unaccountable calls meant to... NPR more...
Nov 3, 2008 Campaign Calls to Cellphones Invade Privacy, Voters Say Kim Hart writes about how voters are getting millions of robo calls to their cell phones from politicians. Washington Post more...
Nov 3, 2008 Dakin dials up effort to curb the use of robocalls Article about CEO and Founder Shaun Dakin. PRWeek more...
Oct 31, 2008 Stop Calling Me! Do Robocalls work? Shaun Dakin, CEO of StopPoliticalCalls.org is interviewed. Newsweek more...
Oct 31, 2008 Some Orlando-area voters call political 'robocalls' just another form of telemarketing Ludmilla Lelis writes about robo calls in FL. Orlando Sentinel more...
Oct 31, 2008 Sixteen Great Twitter Moments Shaun Dakin (@EndTheRoboCalls) runs the National Political Do Not Contact Registry. While political robo calls to phone numbers on the Federal Do Not Call list are okay, robo calls to phone numbers on California�s Do Not Call List of any sort, even political, are illegal. When Shaun�s... Mashable more...
Oct 31, 2008 Latest Anti-Obama Robocall Hits Him On Partial Birth Abortion According to Shaun Dakin of the non-partisan Citizens for Civil Discourse, individuals in three states have reported receiving a new robocall from the National Pro-Life Alliance attacking Barack Obama on the issue of partial birth abortion. Huffington Post more...
Oct 31, 2008 As time ticks by, the calls come in By DANE SCHILLER The phone rings, and on the other end is a recording by legendary astronaut John Glenn. Another call brings a recorded message from Harris County's chief tax collector, also making an urgent appeal to voters. Houston Chronicle more...
Oct 30, 2008 Web Puts Dog-Whistle Politics on a Leash Ari Melber writes about how the internet is able to spot "under the radar" dirty tricks much faster than before. The Nation more...
Oct 29, 2008 Battle for the hearts, minds and ears of voters Article about the US election and robo calls. The Age (Australia) more...
Oct 27, 2008 Sexy Robocall Flogs 'Green Republican,' Flouts Law Story about the Sexy Robocall in CA. Wired more...
Oct 27, 2008 Campaign Call or Sex Hotline? Interview with Shaun Dakin. KCBS Radio (CA) more...
Oct 25, 2008 Even if you're on Do Not Call registry, political calls are legal Story about robo calls in Colorado by Amy Hamilton. Daily Sentinel (CO) more...
Oct 25, 2008 TV Segment in San Francisco on Robo Calls Video segment on robo calls in San Francisco, CA with StopPoliticalCalls.org KRON 4 more...
Oct 24, 2008 A Brief History Of Robo-Calls Shaun Dakin Quoted in Time. Time Magazine more...
Oct 23, 2008 Robocalls flood phone lines in battleground states Story on robo calls. Shaun Dakin, CEO and Founder of StopPoliticalCalls.org, is quoted. CNN more...
Oct 23, 2008 Election Day brings invasion of robocalls Story on robo calls with Shaun Dakin interviewed. CNET more...
Oct 23, 2008 CNN Interview of Shaun Dakin Carol Costello interviews Shaun Dakin for a segement on robo calls. StopPoliticalCalls.org more...
Oct 22, 2008 Can 'robocalls' sway U.S. voters? Good story about robo calls and their lack of effectiveness. Toronto Star more...
Oct 21, 2008 Big Union Robocall Hammers McCain For "Getting Rid Of The Rules For The Fatcats On Wall Street" StopPoliticalCalls.org breaks news on Union robocall. Talking Points Memo more...
Oct 21, 2008 Women's Group Pays $100,000 Fine For N.C. Robocalls WVWV.org, an advocacy group, paid $100k for robocalls made during the NC primary in 2008. Wired.com more...
Oct 21, 2008 AFL-CIO Hits McCain On Economy In New Robocall Union hits McCain on Economy Robo call in OH Huffington Post more...
Oct 20, 2008 Voters Fed Up With Political Phone Calls TV Segment on Political Calls with StopPoliticalCalls.org. Video link available. WBNS 10 TV (Columbus, OH) more...
Oct 20, 2008 New McCain Robocall Stars ... Sarah Palin! Article about robo calls. The story includes a StopPoliticalCalls.org member, Carol Johnson from Wisconsin. Talking Points Memo more...
Oct 20, 2008 Campaigns Take Flak For Using Robocalls Story about robo calls with Shaun Dakin interviewed. Audio available. NPR more...
Oct 20, 2008 CNN Segment on Robo calls with Veronica De La Cruz TV Segment with StopPoliticalCalls.org. Video Link available. CNN more...
Oct 16, 2008 GOP, McCain Appear To Dominate Robocall War Sam Stein. While Barack Obama may be drowning out his opposition on the airwaves, spending copious amounts of cash on television advertisements in key markets, evidence suggests that John McCain is well ahead in one form of political outreach. Huffington Post more...
Oct 16, 2008 John McCain's Campaign Robots Hit the Phones John McCain's campaign appears to be using robocalls at three times the rate that Barack Obama's campaign is, according to anecdotal evidence collected by Shaun Dakin, an anti-robocall activist in Virginia. Wired more...
Oct 16, 2008 Wave Of McCain Robocalls Reported, Some May Violate State Law The McCain-Palin campaign and the Republican National Committee launched a massive robocall campaign on Thursday designed to alarm voters about Barack Obama's past association with former radical Bill Ayers. The committee may be violating state law in the process. Huffington Post more...
Oct 15, 2008 "Terrorist" Calls In PA? Shaun Dakin of the National Political Do Not Call Registry flags a call that one of his members from Pennsylvania received this week. The Atlantic more...
Oct 10, 2008 (Video) Putting An End To Political Calls Local Kansas City, MO segment on StopPoliticalCalls.org NBC Action News (MO) more...
Oct 9, 2008 Stop The Calls StopPoliticalCalls.org featured on local NBC segment. NBC 4 TMJ4 (WI) more...
Oct 4, 2008 Starting a Nonprofit Organization Interview with Shaun Dakin, Founder and CEO. Gaebler.com more...
Oct 3, 2008 Politicians' robocalls a napper's nightmare Editorial about robo calls. StopPoliticalCalls.org is mentioned as part of the solution. The Columbus Dispatch (OH) more...
Oct 1, 2008 Proposition 7 supporters making illegal robocalls, watchdog says A Nov. 4 ballot measure that would mandate a large increase in California's renewable energy usage is in violation of a state law on robocalls. Shaun Dakin, who is attempting to create a national do-not-call registry for political calls, said he's received 13 complaints about robocalls from... Politicker more...
Sep 30, 2008 Fox.com Tech Tuesday Fox.com Tech Tuesday talks about how you can stop political robo calls and mentions StopPoliticalCalls.org as a solution. Fox News more...
Sep 30, 2008 Radio Segment on 104.9 FM The River (OH) StopPoliticalCalls.org mentioned on air. 104.9 FM The River (OH) more...
Sep 24, 2008 It's an Election, Not an Invasion Letter to the editor regarding CEO Shaun Dakin's op-ed in the Washington Post 9/13/2008. Washington Post more...
Sep 21, 2008 Campaign tech breaches voters' right to privacy Op-Ed by Shaun Dakin Herald-Tribune (FL) more...
Sep 20, 2008 Do Not Robo Call Letter to the Editor from Shaun Dakin. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R., N.C.) was the first to sign our pledge and we now have six state and national politicians who have signed a no-robocall pledge. Wilmington Star-News (NC) more...
Sep 18, 2008 Political No Call List Letter to the editor from Shaun Dakin. McCook Daily Gazette (NE) more...
Sep 17, 2008 How To Stop Political Robo Calls StopPoliticalCalls.org was the website of the week at WTOP radio. WTOP Radio (DC) 103.5 FM more...
Sep 16, 2008 Support a campaign and lose your privacy Op-Ed by CEO Shaun Dakin about robo calls and a voter privacy bill of rights. The Cleveland Plain Dealer more...
Sep 15, 2008 Political Do Not Call Registry blocks robo-calls from candidates The 2008 election is heating up locally, statewide and nationwide, and there is a way to at least keep candidates from ringing your phone off the hook every night, thanks to the Political Do Not Call Registry. Jacksonville Daily Progress more...
Sep 15, 2008 Stop Robocalls The recent article about robocalls was well-timed. The general election in Florida is in full swing and it looks like Florida will once again help decide the presidential election this fall. That means voters can expect to be bombarded with political robocalls. Lakeland Ledger (FL) more...
Sep 14, 2008 Group wants limit to political calls One exemption for the National Do Not Call Registry is for political organizations, who may contact households on the list. But a new list targets political calls, too. Last year, a nonprofit organization called Citizens for Civil Discourse created the National Political Do Not Contact... The Herald-Mail more...
Sep 13, 2008 A Privacy Shield Against the Campaigns Op-Ed in the Washington Post by CEO Shaun Dakin about A Voter Privacy Bill of Rights. The Washington Post more...
Sep 12, 2008 Watchdog says Gerber violating state law on robocalls A congressional candidate in the Bay Area is willfully ignoring state law against using automated "robocalls" for his campaign, according to a watchdog on political communication. Politicker more...
Sep 12, 2008 Gerber inspires �Do Not Call� complaint GOP congressional candidate Nick Gerber of Moraga apparently didn�t get that memo about California�s largely unenforced ban on robocalls. Contra Costa Times (CA) more...
Sep 12, 2008 Despite Do-Not-Call entry, calls keep coming Q. My phone number is listed with the national Do Not Call Registry, but I keep getting calls from charitable organizations and people taking surveys. What can I do? Miami Herald more...
Sep 11, 2008 How to Join the Political 'Do Not Call' List TV News Segment about StopPoliticalCalls.org. Online video available. ABC WXYZ 7 TV (MI) more...
Sep 10, 2008 NBC TV News Segment on Political Calls Local TV Segment about StopPoliticalCalls.org (No video) NBC KGET TV 17 (CA) more...
Sep 10, 2008 Political Do Not Call List TV segment about StopPoliticalCalls.org NBC WDTN Dayton (OH) more...
Sep 9, 2008 Registry pushes back against political robo-calls From the morning e-mail ... The National Political Do Not Contact Registry (NPDNC) reports on its efforts thus far to quash political robo-calls: The Sun News (SC) more...
Sep 7, 2008 Do Not Call list does not apply to campaigns Horvath is not alone in her frustration. The Citizens for Civil Discourse, a nonpartisan, nonprofit group, has started a National Political Do Not Call Registry. Shaun Dakin, chief executive officer and founder of the group, which is based in Washington, D.C., hopes someday the registry at his... The Times Herald (MI) more...
Sep 7, 2008 Fed-up voters can register for no-call list The Blade's Aug. 28 editorial about robocalls was well-timed. The general election is in full swing and it looks like, again, Ohio will be a "battleground state" that may determine who is the next president. That means voters can expect to be bombarded with political robocalls. I started a... Toledo Blade (OH) more...
Sep 7, 2008 TV News Segment on Political Calls TV segment on nightly news in Cleveland, OH. Cleveland newsnet 5 (OH) more
Sep 6, 2008 Take back your phones from the politicians at election time Letter to editor by CEO Shaun Dakin about AG Jay Nixon and his attempt to regulate robo calls ahead of his campaign for Governor. St. Louis Post-Dispatch more...
Sep 5, 2008 Tired of political phone calls? Get on the list Local TV segment on StopPoliticalCalls.org WMBF-TV Myrtle Beach, SC more...
Aug 31, 2008 Editorial - Stop Political Calls In CA Editorial about StopPoliticalCalls.org The Modesto Bee more...
Aug 29, 2008 Irked by robo-calls? There are options Editorial about robo calls. Jackson Citizen Patriot more...
Aug 27, 2008 Political Do-Not-Call List Latest John Matarese of WCPO's Don't Waste Your Money does a segment on StopPoliticalCalls.org ABC News (WCPO) Ohio more...
Aug 26, 2008 Off the Hook: Candidates Have Your Number CBS News.com story about robo calls with quotes by CEO Shaun Dakin. CBS News more...
Aug 21, 2008 Feds crack down on robo-calls (politics excepted) Interview with Jon Gordon, host of Future Tense. NPR more...
Aug 19, 2008 FTC targets prerecorded telemarketing drivel Story about the FTC rule change that includes StopPoliticalCalls.org Network World more...
Aug 15, 2008 Automated campaign phone calls under scrutiny Full story on the state of robo calls in the nation and Ohio. Cleveland Plain Dealer more...
Aug 14, 2008 Just don�t do it - Attack of the political robo-callers. Cosmo Garvin, columnist, writes about robo calls in CA. Sacramento News & Review more...
Aug 13, 2008 How Do Candidates Get Your Contact Information? (Video) Local CO story about how voters get their phone numbers on lists that candidates buy. ABC News - KRDO - CO more...
Aug 11, 2008 Group targets Minnesota in campaign to stop political robo-calling Twin Cities pick up on StopPoliticalCalls.org in MN. Twin Cities Daily Planet (MN) more...
Aug 11, 2008 Robo Calls Short radio segment with CEO Shaun Dakin interview. KOMO News Radio (WA) more...
Aug 7, 2008 Group seeks ban on celebrity 'robocalls' Detroit News article about StopPoliticalCalls.org Detriot News more...
Aug 5, 2008 Move to curb recorded celebrity phone calls Story about CA robo calls in the SF Chronicle. San Francisco Chronicle more...
Aug 5, 2008 KSRO Talk Radio Interview Live drive time interview on talk radio with Shaun Dakin. KSRO Radio 1350 more
Aug 5, 2008 Today's Fresh Meat Mention in this blog's "Fresh Meat" section. California Majority Report more...
Aug 5, 2008 Man wants no-call list for politics United Press International pick up on StopPoliticalCalls.org UPI more...
Aug 3, 2008 Hang Up Editorial about robo calls in California. Santa Rosa Press Democrat more...
Aug 3, 2008 Robo Calls Are Illegal In CA Editorial about political calls in CA. The Modesto Bee more...
Aug 2, 2008 Lisa Vorderbrueggen column: Robocalls aren't just annoying -- they're illegal too Lisa Vorderbrueggen column about illegal robo calls in CA. Contra Costa Times more...
Aug 1, 2008 NPR Radio Interview - Patt Morrison Shaun Dakin debates Moses Ross of the American Association of Political Consultants in a live call in show on NPR KPCC. National Public Radio - KPCC 89.3 more...
Jul 30, 2008 'Robocalls' violate state law Story by DC Mercury News Reporter Frank Davies about StopPoliticalCalls.org actions in California. San Jose Mercury News more...
Jul 30, 2008 Bill would limit automated poltical calls Article about StopPoliticalCalls.org and Sen. Feinstein's efforts to limit robo calls. The Bakersfield Californian more...
Jul 30, 2008 How to Prevent Illegal Political Robo-Calls Radio segment on StopPoliticalCalls.org in CA. KCBS radio in San Francisco more...
Jul 30, 2008 Stop Political Calls A great mention for StopPoliticalCalls.org on local ABC news KGO ABC News - KGO - CA more...
Jul 30, 2008 TV News Segment on Political Calls Segment on TV 20 in California. TV 20 - KBWB more...
Jul 29, 2008 Kucinich's California robo-calls spark complaints Story on StopPoliticalCalls.org complaints about Kucinich making robo calls in CA that are illegal. Cleveland Plain Dealer more...
Jul 28, 2008 Interview on XM 130 POTUS 08 Interview with Shaun Dakin, CEO and Founder, StopPoliticdalCalls.org about the California Public Utilities Commission code that outlaws robo calls in Ca. XM Radio more
Jul 28, 2008 Group seeks to goad California utilities officials into stopping political 'robocalls' Politicker CA article about StopPoliticalCalls.org action in California. Politicker more...
Jul 25, 2008 Lawsuit Threat Over California Robo Calls The NPDNC will be challenging the CA Public Utilities Commission to enforce the existing code that makes robo calls in CA illegal. Politics Magazine more...
Jul 25, 2008 Political Robo Calls Are Illegal in California: You Can Help Enforce the Law and Protect Your Privacy Good story about our California initiative in a leading CA politics blog, the CA Progress Report. California Progress Report more...
Jul 25, 2008 Steve Scauzillo: How to turn off political 'robocalls' t's July, so people may have forgotten receiving a deluge of annoying, intrusive automated calls from candidates during the presidential primary in February, usually at dinner time or when your favorite show is on TV. Shaun Dakin, a marketer who founded the Web site StopPoliticalCalls.org,... Pasadena Star News more...
Jul 25, 2008 Dear candidates: Quit calling me Ever get annoyed by those recorded phone calls � �robocalls� � from political campaigns? You might want to check out a fellow named Shaun Dakin, the CEO and founder of something called The National Political Do Not Contact Registry. Here's the group's Web site. Fresno Bee Editorial Page more...
Jul 25, 2008 Russ Minick: Dear candidates, quit calling me Russ Minick: Dear candidates, quit calling me � Ever get annoyed by those recorded phone calls � "robocalls" � from political campaigns? You might want to check out a fellow named Shaun Dakin, the CEO and founder of something called The National Political Do Not Contact Registry. Minick blog �... San Joaquin Valleyfornia more...
Jul 23, 2008 Anti-Robocall Crusader Pushes For a Crackdown on Political Phone Droids Dakin, the founder of the non-profit National Political Do Not Contact Registry, is launching a new initiative to push California regulators to enforce its little-noted robocall rule. Wired.com more...
Jul 21, 2008 Yes, Virginia, there IS a political 'do not call' list BoomerGirl story about StopPoliticalCalls.org BoomerGirl more...
Jul 20, 2008 Do-not-call registry for robo-calls Letter to the Editor South East Missourian more...
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