As we first
blogged about here, there is a mysterious number showing up on people's CallerIds as of late.
That number: (571) 522-1180. And if you do a public Reverse Phone Number Look Up on you get the following Results:
Fecr
street address not available
Braddock, VA 22302
(571) 522-1180
AND
Ccabiz
street address not available
Braddock, VA 22302
(571) 522-1180
Who owns this number? "CcaBizis is in fact ccAdvertising
SoapBlox Colorado, a blog I help run where this was originally reported, has been getting about 3-4 Google Searches per hour for this number. Most have been from Colorado, some have been from Ohio, and now we're starting to see people from California search for this number.
What do all these states have in common? They all have odd-year elections that spell doom for the future hopes of GOP power in these states. Colorado has Ref C & D, which if it passes, will be a stake in the heart to Norquist's TABOR amendments (which he is pushing in other states too). Ohio has the Reform Ohio Now ballot initiatives, to take power away from the entrenched and corrupt GOP in the state. California has initiatives that the Gropenator is pushing, that if fail, could spell the end of Arnold's political viability.
But what I want this post to be about is this company ccAdvertising.
Why? Because the GOoPs love 'em, and they use them. Let me take more from my first post about this group:
ccAdverstings's about section claims:
ccAdvertising is fundamentally a survey and database company, which utilizes a patented (patents pending) Interactive Voice Response - Speech Recognition (IVRSR) medium it created called, ccAdvertising.
If you look at ccAdvertising's Press Release Page, you can download a word doc called Election Research 18-Targetd State Survey Bush Versus Kerry - Oct 25, 2004 Compared To Election Day Results which claims:
On October 25, 2004, Election Research completed the "sixteenth and final survey" in a series of surveys conducted as part of an Election 2004 program. During a 24-hour period from October 24, 2004 through October 25, 2004, Election Research surveyed 249,970-homes in the 18-states targeted by both the George W. Bush and John F. Kerry 2004 Presidential campaigns. This universe translated into 13,887-homes per state.
That's a lot of push-polls.
I've been doing some more searching on them, and look what I've found.
- Pete Sessions (R-Tx) used ccAdvertising, spending $10,000.
- In 2000, Colorado Conservative Voters and Club for Growth spent $100,000 doing polls through this group.
- The Attorney General of North Dakota is bringing charges against ccAdvertising saying:
Whether the enforcement of NDCC 51-28-02 as to interstate political polling calls is preempted by Section 2 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended by the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991.
4. This company sponsered a 'meet & greet' with GOP congresswoman Cathy McMorris
And this is in about 10 minutes of google searching.
Folks, I'm posting this because if dKos is good for anything, its doing research. Isn't that what Gannon/Guckert taught us?
So let's use our collective power and start collecting all the info we can on these guys. Push-polls are the most disengious form of politicking out there, it's dispicable and deplorable, but happens in the shadows so no one is ever held account for them.
It's time for that to change. And you can help.