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Title: Neo-Nazi Robocalls Target Andrew Gillum In Florida Governor Race
Post by: TomSea on September 01, 2018, 11:33:50 am
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Neo-Nazi Robocalls Target Andrew Gillum In Florida Governor Race
By Mary Papenfuss
POLITICS

08/31/2018 09:04 pm ET

The ugly call features a speaker who pretends to be the black candidate, using an exaggerated dialect, as drums and jungle sounds play in the background.

Florida voters started receiving ugly robocalls Friday targeting Democrat Andrew Gillum, the African-American candidate for governor, that are linked to a neo-Nazi website in Idaho, the Tallahassee Democrat reported.

In the automated phone calls, someone speaking in an exaggerated dialect pretends to be Gillum as drums and jungle noises can be heard in the background.

Read more at: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/neo-nazi-robocalls-target-andrew-gillum-in-florida-governors-race_us_5b89bc9fe4b0162f47236bd0 (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/neo-nazi-robocalls-target-andrew-gillum-in-florida-governors-race_us_5b89bc9fe4b0162f47236bd0)
Title: Re: Neo-Nazi Robocalls Target Andrew Gillum In Florida Governor Race
Post by: TomSea on September 01, 2018, 11:35:30 am
My first reaction is maybe this is some dirty trick from the left but the article says it is from a known website. What jackasses to do this kind of stuff!  Infuriates me and some of this happened in 2016 too.  Straight-ahead racism.

Moved to the Florida board, it's not worth national I don't think in case anyone cares to chime in.