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UPDATED: Tamara Davis Brown Takes “Do Not Robo Call” Pledge
Thursday, June 10, 2010
UPDATED: Tamara Davis Brown Takes “Do Not Robo
Call” Pledge
For Immediate Release: June
10, 2010
Tamara Davis Brown, a
candidate for Prince George’s County Council in
District 9, today announced her pledge not to
conduct “robo calls” to voters in her district.
She is one of many candidates that has taken
the pledge since the non-profit Citizens for
Civil Discourse launched the National Political
Do Not Contact Registry.
“I take
every person’s vote very seriously. If I
am asking them to take a personal action in
voting for me, I believe I owe them a personal
effort to reach them, explain my platform and
ask for their support,” stated Davis Brown.
“Robo calls are a low-cost way to introduce a
candidate to thousands of residents, but I
believe voters deserve better than just hearing
a recording. They want to make a more
informed decision about their representative. I
am depending on my years of grassroots advocacy
and proven track record of results to win their
vote—not merely name recognition—and that can
not be conveyed by a
recording.”
By pledging not to use
robo calls, voters in District 9 will not have
to worry about receiving intrusive,
pre-recorded phone calls from Tamara Davis
Brown during the campaign. From now until the
primary election on September 14, 2010, Davis
Brown and her team will personally canvas all
of District 9 to inform voters about her
candidacy.
Additionally, she
encourages voters to opt out of receiving
robocalls by registering their phone number
with the National Political Do Not Contact
Registry website, www.StopPoliticalCalls.org.
The National Political Do Not Contact Registry
fills a void in the Federal Trade Commission’s
National Do Not Call (DNC) registry. Because
the First Amendment protects political speech,
political calls are specifically excluded from
the Federal DNC.
Shaun Dakin,
founder and CEO of www.StopPoliticalCalls.org,
expressed his enthusiastic support for Davis
Brown’s pledge. “I started the National
Political Do Not Contact Registry to help
residents protect their privacy by eliminating
invasive, automated calls from politicians
asking for their vote. I applaud Tamara Davis
Brown for making the pledge and affirming that
it is time for these calls to
stop.”
For more information on the
National Political Do Not Contact Registry,
please visit www.StopPoliticalCalls.org. To
learn more about the candidacy of Tamara Davis
Brown for District 9 County Council, please
visit www.tamaradavisbrown.org, or follow her
on YouTube, Twitter, or
Facebook.
For more information,
please contact Jennifer Harris, Communications
Manager for Tamara Davis Brown, at 703.582.4110
or e-mail
communicationsmanager@tamaradavisbrown.org.
