Did McCain Hire Same Firm To Do His Robo-Slime That Targeted Him In 2000?

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Did McCain Hire Same Firm To Do His Robo-Slime That Targeted Him In 2000?

By Greg Sargent - October 17, 2008, 6:02PM

Can it be that John McCain hired the same outfit to robo-slime Barack Obama that hit McCain himself with the scurrilous robocall campaign in 2000 that he decried at the time as "hate calls"?

Yes, according to Christopher Schoff, an official with the Democratic Party in Minnesota, also known as the DFL.

Schoff tells me he got one of McCain's calls on Tuesday night, the one saying Obama put "Hollywood above America." Only in this case, the call wasn't robo; because such calls are illegal in Minnesota, the McCain call was a live person reading from a script.

Schoff says he cut off the person reading to him and asked the name of the company. He was told it was DF King, in Brooklyn, and was sent to a supervisor.

Schoff says the supervisor then told him that the company had been subcontracted for the calls by a larger company called FLS Connect that had been hired by McCain's campaign to do the calls. (Calls to FLS weren't immediately returned, and it may be tough to nail all the particulars of this down completely before FEC filings are available.)

And who is FLS Connect, you ask?


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[BrklynLiberal]

1. He DID hire the same guy who headed that slime machine...

Talk about selling your soul...

[LiberalEsto]

2. Ed Schultz played a robo-call on the air today

It was sickening -- it implied that Obama's terrorist pal William Ayers bombed the U.S. Capitol and Pentagon. If I were Ayers, I'd be lawyering up to sue for slander.