Chamber Of Commerce Airs Democrat's Home Phone Number In Attack Ad

[brentspeak]

Incredibly, the anti-US Chamber of Commerce continues to enjoy non-profit tax-exempt status as a 501(c)(6) organization.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/08/julie-lassa-chamber-commerce-ad-phone_n_756058.html

Posted: 10- 8-10 02:45 PM

Wisconsin Democratic congressional candidate Julie Lassa is calling on her opponent to denounce a new attack ad by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that displays her home phone number and tells viewers to call and tell her to "stop voting for job-killing tax hikes."

"Sean Duffy's special interest backers crossed a line in their attacks that http://www.wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=213740">put Julie and her family at risk to harassment and abuse," Lassa campaign Manager Rick Fromberg said in a statement. "Sean Duffy should let it be known to his outside special interest groups that there is no place for these kinds of attacks in Wisconsin elections."

According to a person close to the Lassas, the family had to unplug their phones the day the ad went up and her two daughters can no longer answer the phones because of all the calls.

The ad points to Lassa's votes to raise taxes and displays her phone number on screen at the very end. A spokesman for the Chamber pointed out that Lassa's home phone number is already publicly available on her state legislature home page, listed as her "district telephone." When The Huffington Post followed up and asked whether the Chamber knew that that number was actually her home phone, we did not receive a response.

"Julie is known for her outreach to her constituents and she's made government accountability and transparency a cornerstone of her work in the public sector and part of her campaign for Congress," said a staffer on the Lassa campaign. "The Chamber made a conscious and deliberate decision to use her personal number and not her office number. This is a breach of privacy and it abuses values that Julie holds dear, and the commitment she's always made to the Wisconsin families she represents."

[msongs]

1. well bipartisan is .......good right? nt

[Newsjock]

2. A domestic terror organization

Receiving foreign funding, aiming to intimidate and terrorize U.S. citizens on soil of the homeland!

[quinnox]

3. Jesus, they have no shame

Whats next from these bozos, pics of her sunbathing at the beach and her home address in another ad?

[glinda]

4. dirty

[DBoon]

5. like nobody would ever do somethign like cut the gas line to her home

Something like that would *never* happen, right