With just under a year until the 2008 election, U.S. Rep. Shelley Moore Capito is already bearing the brunt of automated phones calls to voters in the four-term Republican's 2nd House District.
The recording from the "Campaign to Defend America" says Capito "continues to support an endless American quagmire in Iraq's civil war," while "Democrats in Congress want to bring our troops home through responsible redeployment."
The pro-Democrat campaign is part of Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, a coalition of a dozen like-minded groups.
SourceWatch has more details on that umbrella organization, while the campaign is/was looking for a CFO.
The robocalls quickly followed Wednesday's vote on an Iraq funding measure, which also earned Capito a scathing press release from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Capito decried the legislation as a "politically motivated" maneuver "that would undercut the decision-making power of commanders on the ground in Iraq," The Charleston Gazette reports.
Arguing that "we’ve seen hopeful signs of progress on security and localized political reconciliation," Capito in her statement said "now is not the time to pull the rug out from under our troops, who are performing admirably and achieving results."
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My guess is that a majority of West Virginians are against surrenduring to in Iraq. As the success of the plan Rep. Capito supports becomes more obvious, those robocalls will cut against those who paid to make them. The irony is that while the bill she voted against calls for all troups to be out by the end of 2008, even the top two Dem presidential candidates admit that they'd keep some troops there through the next election in 2012.
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