Dear Bill and Ri–
Well–the national GOP has apparently switched tactics this year–in 2004, the windshields of cars outside St. Joe’s Cathedral in Manchester had 3 separate GOP flyers on pre-Election Sunday!
This year, NH GOP true-believers can’t even fill up a meeting with Laura Bush but the national party is rolling in money–so this year’s last-minute stunt is 300,000 deceptive robo-calls coming in from Virginia.
The call starts off on an upbeat note–“I’m calling with some information about Paul Hodes….”, giving the impression that the Hodes campaign is sending out robo-calls, three or four in a day to the same household, some coming as early as 5 o’clock in the morning. Irate letters to the Concord Monitor say, “I’m voting for Bass because Hodes is making these robo-calls.”
Only Hodes isn’t making those robo-calls–the National Republican Congressional Committee is. If you listen all the way to the end of the robocall, which nobody does because we’re all sick of them–well, read the Concord Monitor story for more:
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061105/REPOSITORY/611050397
Still, I had a wonderful time today, up in NH, despite the naked windshields of churchgoers’ cars. There was frost in the morning, sunshine at noon, and takeout burritos from my favorite restaurant (Shorty’s in Manchester) to take home to Frank. I visited Manchester, Concord, and Nashua–met lots of energetic and pumped-up Democrats of many ages, saw two Republican headquarters closed up and shuttered.
But no windshield flyers, so I just hope that the many kind people who went out to look on my behalf had as many other consolations as I did. Now let’s get big media onto those 300,000 deceptive robocalls!
xxxx
Betsy