TOM FEENEY MAKING PRO-CURTIS ROBOCALLS?

Ridiculous, you say? It's apparently true, as numerous calls and complaints have begun to come into our office about it, and The Orlando Sentinel just called looking for a comment from Clint Curtis.

This from Clint yesterday:

He did this last time too. In the robocall strategy, they are only effective if they go to answering machines between the hours of 10am and 2pm. He always runs them at night and leaves in live calls during dinner hour. Robocalls run at dinner time actually hurt rather than help. Last year I received about 500 complaints from people who were bothered by the robocalls and did not realize that they were being sent by Feeney instead of me. He must have just started the calls because I haven't started receiving the angry calls and e-mails yet. (Note: that began today.)

Last time he also sent out a flyer that looked like it came from me in the areas I was strongest, acting like the primary was already over. That reduced the primary voting numbers by 10%. The strategy is fairly common.

All the polling shows that Feeney would beat Kosmas by over 20 points, so I doubt he has any problem running against her. He definitely would prefer a race against her. He knows that in a rematch between us with the great increase in funds, he will have trouble surviving the election.

He is trying the old endorsement by the devil gives you the other
candidate, that's all I can think.

We've heard from people in the Feeney camp that Feeney would much prefer to run against Kosmas than Curtis, but one has to wonder about that. Since Feeney, ahem, "defeated" Curtis in 2006, one would assume that he'd figure he can do it again -- and also that he'd prefer to go up against Curtis than Kosmas, who has raised over $1.2 million so far and can blitz the district with advertising. The truth is, we can only speculate on why Feeney's doing what he's doing.

An audio recording of the robocall (with legally required Feeney attribution at the end!) can be heard on Brad Blog HERE.

From Wikipedia: Robocall is American pejorative jargon for an automated telemarketing phone call which uses both a computerized autodialer and a computer-delivered recorded message. The implication is that a "robocall" resembles a telephone call from a robot.

Brother, sounds like everyone is running scared of Clint Curtis--Kosmas, Feeney, adn the DCCC. And with good reason. God forbid a real reformer actually gets into office and shines a light on all the scandals, lies, scams and payola which constitute politics as usual for both parties. Please contribute today!