Last night I posted a diary discussing various ways in which Women's Voices. Women Vote was engaging in a cover up about its voter suppression/confusion activities in North Carolina. I pointed specifically to salon.com's piece that swallowed hook, line, and sinker many half truths being spread by WVWV.
The Salon piece (which is so good for WVWV that they're linking to it on their home page now) also contradicted Sarah Johnson's answers to Adam B's questions on Daily Kos on Thursday.
For instance, it mentions NOTHING about the second, female robocall (that nobody has complained about or even heard), blithely claiming for the first time, anywhere, that 182,236 Lamont Williams calls went out. It also claims that North Carolina residents got all the calls, even though they told us that calls were received LAST WEEK in all 24 states that their mailings went to.
Well, Wiredpublished an article yesterday in which they failed to locate Lamont Williams among the major voice talent databases. It's a decent article, although it takes the issue far too likely. It, like the Koppelman piece in Salon, makes no mentions of Sarah Johnson's promise to the Virginia Pilot that they would cease their use of anonymous robocalls nationally.
Here are just four of my, many, many unanswered questions for WVWV:
- Who EXACTLY is Lamont Williams and why did you choose him as your caller, and have him use his name but not WVWV's or the Voter Participation Center's name?
- Who was the female caller, how many households did she reach in North Carolina and elsewhere LAST WEEK, and can you please IMMEDIATELY let us hear her call?
- What firm did you use to make these calls?
- Why are you letting your spokesperson plant false or misleading information in Salon, then linking to the article on your website, before your board has the chance to hold its emergency meeting and get to the bottom of all this?