Update: The toll free number is owned by Families USA. They are redirecting the number to the Capitol Hill switchboard after their push for Obamacare.
I just received this email and called myself. The switchboard operator didn’t know why this was happening. I asked to be forwarded to Melissa Bean’s office. I could not leave a message, her box was full.
RED ALERT - The White House is campaigning on the Capital Hill Switchboard Line — Patriot Action Needed Now - PATRIOT CENTRAL - 090926 A
Shut it down with calls and let it ring over to the switchboard personnel and tell them what you think of it.
I am sick of O and him continuing to campaign using tax payer money and abusing his privileges. How can anyone trust or respect anyone in this “dis-administration.”
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This is from a patriot.Subject: Important: Lawyers out there…Is this legal? Bi-partisan switchboard at work
Was going to bed when I read this message and wanted to pass it on. I have already been on twitter and sent Dick Armey, John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, etc a tweet about it so will be interested to see if any reply that they knew about it.
Call 800.828.0498 and listen to the message on the capital hill switchboard. Then, share this with everyone…call the papers, tv stations and all your reps…who put the message on there? Isn’t this against the law. Aren’t they supposed to show some form of ethics. What if Bush were president and the message was keep bombing them until they convert or die?
They are definitely pushing it.
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I called the 800 number and recorded the call, asking a supervisor what was happening. (I was confused, and so were they.) It turns out that the Capitol switchboard does not have an 800 number, and that a ‘progressive’ lobbying group called Families USA owns that number and is deceiving folks, telling them they’re calling their reps. Here’s the audio of my call where you can hear the explanation.
http://tinyurl.com/CapitolSwitchboard
Families USA has set up a website called Stand Up for Health Care, where they tell you to call your member of Congress, give you talking points and then tell you to report your results.
http://www.standupforhealthcare.org/page/s/CallCongress
After some investigating this 800 number may actually be run by liberal lobbying groups duping people into calling that number instead of the regular Capitol switchboard, then they give you the pitch and forward you to the real one.
If this is the case then we need to find out the organization(s) behind this and expose them. It would be interesting to discover the legality of this. What we may need to do is call this number repeatedly because every call costs the 800 number owners money. Just make sure you don’t let the call forward to the switchboard so no tax money will be used. This is what happened after flag@whitehouse.gov was exposed. So many people spammed it that it forced them to take it down.