Do better
Thursday, Dec 18, 2025 - Posted by Rich Miller
* Good advice…
Pro tip, for anyone wondering: you don't convince us you're serious about running for governor by putting out a robocall…
Posted by Collin Corbett on Tuesday, December 16, 2025
* Make sure to listen to the end. Yeesh…
* And I’m not saying Collin is right, but the last time a statewide Republican candidate deployed pre-recorded ringless mobile phone voicemails, bad things happened…
People targeted by a campaign robocall from former Gov. Bruce Rauner since his first campaign in 2014 will be eligible to earn a portion of a $1 million settlement agreement that was reached last month in a class-action case.
The agreement would end the federal lawsuit against the former governor and his campaign entity, Citizens for Rauner, that was brought by Peter Garvey, an Illinois resident who received three prerecorded voice mails from Rauner’s campaign in 2018.
The amount owed to each person has not been determined, according to the settlement notice website, because the total number of class members and the costs of settlement administration, as well as attorney’s fees, haven’t been finalized.
The number of class members could exceed 35,000 people, according to Garvey’s lawsuit.
As part of the settlement agreement, Rauner and his campaign deny all allegations of wrongdoing and liability made it the lawsuit.
- Big Dipper - Thursday, Dec 18, 25 @ 1:45 pm:
IPI gets the law wrong so often is anyone surprised that its alum would do something illegal? And running as the party of law and order.
- Linus - Thursday, Dec 18, 25 @ 1:51 pm:
Ted, please call me. I want a piece of that forthcoming settlement (row of banned punctuation marks goes here)
- Dotnonymous x - Thursday, Dec 18, 25 @ 1:56 pm:
Mumbling indicates fumbling.
- Incandenza - Thursday, Dec 18, 25 @ 2:13 pm:
Veep was a documentary
- Dotnonymous x - Thursday, Dec 18, 25 @ 2:32 pm:
- Veep was a documentary -
Actual spit take…life is one hundred times stranger than any fiction.
- ArchPundit - Thursday, Dec 18, 25 @ 2:45 pm:
Ted’s campaign is going to single handedly create a rake shortage.
- Matty - Thursday, Dec 18, 25 @ 3:31 pm:
Since when are recorded campaign calls to cell phones illegal?
Is this a state law or an FCC rule?
- Rich Miller - Thursday, Dec 18, 25 @ 3:49 pm:
===Since when are recorded campaign calls to cell phones illegal?===
It’s against federal law to auto-dial mobile phones. That’s a big reason why polling has become so expensive. You have to hand dial.
- Candy Dogood - Thursday, Dec 18, 25 @ 4:03 pm:
===with a verbal flub that your team was too lazy or incompetent to edit out.===
Depending on the vendor being used someone, maybe even the candidate themself, just called a phone number, answered some prompts, and recorded a message.
Setting up a robocall ‘firm’ isn’t difficult or expensive. Setting up a good one and following all applicable laws is.
This probably wasn’t caused by a lazy team. It was complete disregard by the candidate and using a questionable service.
- Just Another Anon - Thursday, Dec 18, 25 @ 4:18 pm:
I suppose its possible that they got around the auto dialer prohibition by button mashing. That was my understanding of the state of the industry last I looked.
- Cornfield Cowboy - Thursday, Dec 18, 25 @ 4:19 pm:
I never got my Raunerbucks, from his calls to my flip phone. Can we file an amended compliant from the pain and distress?