Indiana Gets A Robocall (But Not From A Candidate)

As I posted last week, robo calls in Indiana are illegal.  No question about it.  Both commercial and political robo calls are illegal and the AG will go after anyone who does it.

I wondered if one of the campaigns would make a mistake and get caught as AG Steve Carter fully prosecutes robo calling cases to the fullest extent of the law.

I would not mess with AG Carter.

Now it looks as if someone hasn't received accurate legal advice and will pay for it.

What is not clear, however, is if this is a robo call that went into Indiana (the audio is very poor and there does not seem to be a date and time stamp on the call).

This is the story from the Politico's Ben Smith:  (Update from Ben at this link)

National Right to Life goes after Obama in an Indiana robocall "asking you to vote against Barack Obama."

Clinton and Obama are more or less indistinguishable on abortion rights, both in their support for access to abortion, and in the way they talk about the issue.

The call attacks him for promising to sign federal legislation that would make it harder for states to impede abortion, and for voting against a (complicated) bill in the state legislature that would have more heavily regulated late-term abortions to the end of saving, the call says, "the lives of babies who survied late term abortions."

Former Indiana Rep. Tim Roemer, a pro-life Obama backer, said the group is playing politics.

"National Right to Life is running these calls because they know that Senator Clinton will be the easier Democrat to run against in the general election—and this is their way of giving her a helping hand in this tough primary battle," he said in the emailed statement.