SWARTZ CREEK, MI -- A Swartz Creek man has filed a lawsuit claiming that a conservative-leaning political action committee violated federal law by calling him with recordings from high-profile conservatives soliciting money and railing against Obamacare.
Andrew Campbell filed the lawsuit Dec. 6 in Flint U.S. District Court against the Restore America's Voice Foundation and it's political action committee after Campbell alleges he received more than a dozen unsolicited calls on his cellphone from the organization that featured recorded messages from prominent conservatives such as Glenn Beck, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and former Arkansas Governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee.
.....In his lawsuit, Campbell claims that the calls violated the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act, signed into law by President George H.W. Bush in 1991, placed limits on telemarketers and prohibits calls being made that include a recorded voice to any cellphone number without the consent of the individual being called.
......Flint-native Mark A. Dotson, a professor at Cooley Law School in Lansing, said recent changes have strengthened the act, forcing telemarketers to have written consent from individuals prior to placing marketing calls.
Dotson said written consent is not needed for political and informative calls, but questioned the legality of political messages that ask an individual for money without written consent.
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