Beto O'Rourke's being sued over campaign text messages

It looks like the political full-court press ahead of the midterms has gotten on the nerves of some voters deep in the heart of Texas who’ve filed a suit against Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke over text alerts. 

A class-action lawsuit filed by a Collin County, Texas resident claims he’s been inundated with “Beto For Texas” texts that violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCP Act,) because he never gave the campaign permission to send him those messages.

The resident claimed he tried to text back or call the the number associated with the texts but, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, “the calls resulted in error messages or disconnected dial tones.” That, the lawsuit claims, proves the campaign is using automated messaging, which the TCP Act forbids.  Read more…

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