Targeting those robo-calls

The Senate Commerce Committee on Monday passed a bill sponsored by Sen. Jim King of Jacksonville to curtail pre-recorded political "robo calls" to voters, even if they paid a fee to get on the state's "do not call" registry. But despite the vote, the issue appears dead for this session because there is not enough time left to maneuver the bill for floor votes. "This is probably a two-session issue," said King, a former Senate president who plans to file the bill again next year.

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[Carol Dudash]

As a Republican, I am very disappointed and disturbed with the politics that you people are playing.
You know we have (Florida) population have a very serious problem with the amount of people leaving our state. You people sit there in you ivory towers and continue to debate this very serious problem of property tax while our economy falls flat on its face.
I am a realtor, and our market is so stagnet it is appalling. You folks don't seem to get it. While you continue to argue when there are some very lucatrive alternatives in place, our market continues to become worse and worse, along with the economy.
You all know this is such a serious problem, and yet you drag it out while people are leaving and moving to beter
econmical condtions. This was a great place to live, but the politicians are making it impossible to survive due to the lack of fast response to numerous issues, property taxes, homeowners insurance, etc. You all have had enough feedback and yet you still sit and debate while our folks continue to leave with very little coming to Florida as a result of these issues.
We need to vote people in that will make necessary changes quickly. Mr. Rubio presented two great options and now the Senate sits and wants to undermine his proposals. Rolling back to 2005 is a joke!

Did you ever hear about staying on topic?
There are plenty of chances here to make that point, but this is not one of them.
The anti-robo-call bil is great. People do not understand how they can get such calls when they are on the do-not-call list, and I've heard so many say they are so angered by the calls they will vote against the caller.
I know it's cheap, but there must be better ways to get a message out than this annoyance.

Property taxes must come down!!

NOT HERE! but since you insist, the Senate MUST stay on its course, and save the people from Rubio's bad plan. It leaves too many people without help.
As for the robo-call bill, go Jim King!

RINO Dudash:
Do you understand the free market? Temporary market dislocations are part of the deal. You have no vested right to all the money you think you need without interruption.
I'd like to buy lots of property, but it seems to me that if we have a lot of people moving and selling that just creates a better opportunity down the road.
Unlike you, I have patience and don't expect government to create marketplace opportunities for me.

12:39 pm --You obviously work for the government . . .

I can't believe the realtor whining. There were no complaints last year, which everyone with any sense knows was an articifically inflated market. Now you think there should be more government intervention to save your paycheck and get tot back to those crazy levels.
You rake it in when the market's good, and that means you have to take it when the market dives.

I'm 12:39, and I am most definitely not a government employee.
But I'm also smart enough to know a House of fools' tax proposal when I see it.

It's about time that our elected officials start listening to their constituents on the topic of Robo-calls rather than listening to all of the old school, lazy political consultants who rely on this outdated and ineffective tool.

How many times have you heard someone say "Oh, I just got a political robo-call and it was such a great experience"?

Never.

And then how many times have you heard people complain they got a robo-call, especially on their cellphone?

Some polls show that over 80% of recipients of robo-calls had a hostile reaction to them. That's a landslide in any election.

I was involved with on a political campaign in 2006 that placed hundreds of thousands of robo-calls. And we had literally countless complaints via email and phone calls from the recipients of those robo-calls.

Angry voters who wanted the campaign to reimburse them for the 40 cents that we cost them on their cellphones.

Robo-calls don't work.

And they make your voters really mad.