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Published Monday, Oct. 25, 2010 | 12:19 p.m.
Updated Monday, Oct. 25, 2010 | 12:50 p.m.
This is one way for your campaign's message to be heard: The voice of former U.S. Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor woke up thousands of Nevada voters with an automated campaign phone call at 1 a.m. today.
The campaign pushing ballot question 1, regarding appointing rather than electing judges, apologized for the phone calls and blamed it on a vendor error.
“The company that was hired by Nevadans for Qualified Judges to execute the phone calls, Stones’ Phones Inc. in Rancho Mirage, CA, mis-programmed the time of day for the calls," according to a statement from the campaign. The company has been fired by the campaign PAC. It will make another round of automated phone calls today apologizing for the mistake, presumably not in the wee hours.
Question 1 on the ballot would change how Nevada picks its judges. Instead of electing judges, the governor would appoint judges from a list a committee chooses. The judge would then stand for a retention vote.
Just imagine how I felt, it was 4 am here. I'm not even registered to vote in Nevada, but because I own property there (a home we couldn't sell when we had to move) I'm still getting all these phone calls on my Florida land line. You would think they would be smart enough to limit it to 702 and 775 area codes!!!!
In other countries, judges earn their careers based on expertise and judicial experience.
This countries election of judges makes them corrupt and buyable.
The US judicial system is only fair to rich people. We need change.
That is exactly why I only have a cell phone, I don't miss listening to robo-calls and telemarketers.
Vegasvampire: Careful who you share your cell number with you may find yourself getting those calls anyway...cells are not protected...even the fairly new Do Not Call list for cells won't stop them. Luckily I didn't get this one, but I've heard from the mayor and several independant candidates.
I got the call and the apology. I was furious when the first call came in and spent some time trying (with no success) to track down the source. Then came the apology and the fact that Stone's phones (http://www.stonesphones.com/about/paul_s...) got fired"
Justice and schadenfreude.
So it's Paul and Marty Stone of Rancho Mirage, CA who own the company that called? I'd love to get a hold of their home number. I may be up a little late tonight.
I'm on both the National & State "Do-Not-Call-Lists" and I believe the law should apply to political and survey callers as well. What makes crummy politicians so special? An annoying phone call is an annoying phone call no matter who places it! This is yet another example of politicians enacting laws and then exempting themselves from being bound by them. "Separate but equal!"
Well put Bob635.