Club for Growth

I am more likely to vote for you if you don't harass me.

Now, the club, the organization that is petitioning the FCC for these calls is called Club for Growth, which does align itself with conservative candidates, and unfortunately, the FCC is a more conservative political body now, so there is a good chance that the FCC does approve this measure.

A quick reminder, it's not all doom and gloom.

Here's today's Hope for Humanity.

All ABC's Jim Ryan says the three-member panel could issue a decision before elections.

The group called Club for Growth says current FCC restrictions impinge on political free speech, arguing that reminder calls about doctor's appointments and package deliveries have no such limits, that campaign messages should be treated the same way.

Even with the looser rules, call recipients would still be able to opt out.

The Washington, DC, residence of Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar searched this morning, a spokesperson for the Justice Department says as part of an ongoing criminal investigation.

And speaking of AI, in the US if a conservative advocacy group gets its way, your phone could start ringing with a lot more political messages, not from volunteers, not from candidates, but from AI.

The group, Club for Growth, has asked the FCC to allow AI-generated political robocalls to cell phones without voters' consent.

We asked reporter Dave Shepardson if these kind of calls move the needle.

If the FCC approves this, it would certainly set a precedent and you could see, you know, they're relatively cheap to send these out, and could, could it become really a, a hallmark at the end of campaigns? And the reason, the reason robocalls have been so successful over the years is 'cause they work, right? 'Cause you send out all these calls and you don't need to get that high a success rate to, to, to be, to have, to see benefits, right? And so some of these elections that are so close in these contested races, if you put out millions of calls and even you get a fraction of a fraction of a percent of people that are persuadable and, and opt to b- you know, go the other way, could that make the difference in, in the election? And I think history shows too that when any party, liberal, conservative, Democrat, Republican, finds some new [laughs] technique that's cost-effective to reach voters, it's hard not to imagine that, that everybody's not gonna follow suit and try to, try to take advantage.

And the policies he has enacted led a lot of people like this guy to feel like, "Well, finally somebody understands we are struggling out here, and it's real.

We're struggling, and you're offshoring our businesses, and we gotta call India, and we got Nigeria defrauding us day in and day out." You know, the Club for Growth just a- appealed to the FCC to increase the cap on robocalls.

Can you, can you imagine the audacity? Club for Growth and I agree on almost every candidate we've ever supported, but no, no more robocalls.

You know, I, I, I, I explain it like this: I don't think people should be able to come up to your door and knock on your door.

That's your private property.