Citizens for Civil Discourse
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Citizens for Civil Discourse, also known as CCD, is an American non-profit, non-partisan organization that accepts Robocall block requests from citizens via their website.{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/23/robo.calls/index.html |title=Robocalls flood phone lines in battleground states|work=CNN.com | date=October 23, 2008 | accessdate=April 30, 2010}}{{cite web|url=http://www.todaystmj4.com/features/call4action/30567724.html |title=Stop The Calls |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120102026/http://www.todaystmj4.com/features/call4action/30567724.html |archivedate=2008-11-20 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/tech-q-and-a-i-am-serious-and-dont-call-me-shirley |author=Guy R. Briggs |title=Tech Q and A: I Am Serious. And Don't Call Me Shirley|work=Foxnews.com|date=September 29, 2008}}{{cite web |url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10073249-38.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.0 |title=Election Day brings invasion of robocalls|date=October 23, 2008|work=CNET News}} Shaun Dakin, the group's CEO, was a former campaign worker for John Kerry during the 2004 presidential election.[http://www.stoppoliticalcalls.org/ht/display/ArticleDetails/i/23669/pid/700 States target political robo-calls] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323115101/https://www.dakinassociates.com/ |date=2019-03-23 }}, Stateline.org, May 22, 2008
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Stop Political Calls is the name of the organization's website to compile a database of the "National Political Do Not Contact Registry". Automated calls for political purposes are not illegal, and the requests in the database have no legal standing. As of late October 2008 after heavy media coverage nationwide, the block requests were voluntarily supported by only three Democrats[http://www.stoppoliticalcalls.org/ht/d/sp/d/sp/i/206/pid/206 Democratic signers of pledge] and three Republicans.[http://www.stoppoliticalcalls.org/ht/d/sp/d/sp/i/207/pid/207 Republican signers of the pledge] Of those six, only three of the politicians were actually on the November 2008 ballot.Virginia Foxx (R), David Crimmens (R) and Nancy Boyda (D) were the only three actually on the ballot November 2008. Boyda and Crimmens were defeated. Foxx was re-elected.
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