S.C. authorities arrest GOP consultant over robo-calls

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http://www.kentucky.com/2010/11/03/1508928/sc-authorities-arrest-gop-consultant.html


By JOHN O'CONNOR - McClatchy Newspapers COLUMBIA, S.C. -- South Carolina's State Law Enforcement Division arrested Republican political consultant Robert Cahaly on Wednesday over a series of robo-calls made during election season.

Cahaly was arrested in Anderson. The calls were placed in six South Carolina House districts, including two Midlands districts in Richland and Kershaw counties. The calls sounded like a poll, asking those on the phone if the district's Democratic candidates should invite U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to campaign on their behalf.

But the calls do not identify who paid for them, which is a misdemeanor violation of state law.

"SLED has determined that these illegal calls were made through a Richland County landline telephone number owned by Gadsden and Greene Strategies, which is also owned by Cahaly," the agency said in a news release.