Some things you just can’t make up.
In a year in which Republicans are blasting immigrants and trying to exploit xenophobia for political gain, Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN) is denouncing the phone bank calls made in support of his campaign by the NRCC because the live callers have such heavy Indian or Hispanic accents.
Souder complained that the only thing he could understand in one of the messages, which was left on his daughter’s answering machine, was “Hayhurst,” the name of his Democratic opponent.
The NRCC calls were supposed to attack Hayhurst as “bad on immigration” or as a proponent of higher taxes. Here’s the immigration call script:
âThe United States now is home to 11 million illegal immigrants, and the number grows every year. But instead of protecting our borders, congressional candidate Tom Hayhurst supports citizenship opportunities for illegal aliens.â
According to the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, Souder said “he was especially exasperated that a phone message about immigration was delivered by people with heavy accents.”
Now, here’s the kicker. Typically, the NRCC would use automated robocalls to deliver this kind of message. But because robocalls are illegal in Indiana and because the Indiana Attorney General has already successfully sued one GOP 527 group, the Economic Freedom Fund, to stop such calls, the NRCC is being forced to use live callers, a task which it has apparently outsourced.
Just too rich.
