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Tele-Scare Calls

These are telephone calls being made by different political groups to constituents of Republican Members of Congress across the nation, including my constituents in Florida’s 22nd District. Since
January of 2005, no fewer than twelve automated phone calls have been placed from groups with
names such as WORKING AMERICA, AMERICAN FAMILY VOICES, WE THE PEOPLE, and MOVE-ON.ORG. These groups, who claim to be legitimate political organizations, disregard DO NOT CALL lists and intrude upon your homes with their unwelcome attacks on myself and other Representatives of Congress to promote their own political agendas. Their messages consist of blatantly false statements with crude distortions of the facts as scare tactics designed to frighten my constituents in District 22.

Some of these private interest groups openly acknowledge that they wish to promote their issues to the public, even if doing so means invading your homes with these “Tele-Scare” calls. In response to the several complaints I have received from my constituents who believe these “Tele-Scare Calls” have violated their right to privacy, I have introduced H.R. 4931 in the House of Representatives this past Spring. This legislation proposes to revise and improve the DO NOT CALL registry to prohibit politically-oriented recorded messages and telephone calls to numbers included on this list.

If you wish to request to be taken off these organizations’ calling lists and/or if you wish to question the validity of the statements being made by these groups, I encourage you to contact them directly. Their information can be found below.

WORKING AMERICA

AFL-CIO Working for America Institute
815 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: 1-202-508-3717
Fax: 1-202-508-3719
Email: info@workingforamerica.org

Website: http://www.workingforamerica.org/

AMERICAN FAMILY VOICES
888 16th Street, NW

Suite 303
Washington, DC 20006
(202) 393-4352
Email: afv@americanfamilyvoices.org

Website: http://www.americanfamilyvoices.org/

WE THE PEOPLE

We The People
2458 Ridge Rd.
Queensbury, NY 12804

Website: http://www.givemeliberty.org/default.htm

Website: http://www.wethepeoplecongress.org/

MOVE-ON.ORG

Website: http://www.moveon.org/

Sincerely,

E. Clay Shaw, Jr.

Member of Congress

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