As the 2020 election activities – particularly the Presidential contest – start to accelerate, campaign operatives need to remember that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) applies to political outreach to prospective voters.
President
Trump’s campaign organization received one such reminder of sorts last week
when three Minnesota citizens brought a TCPA class action in the Federal
District Court in Minneapolis, alleging that Donald J. Trump For President,
Inc. had texted their cellphones without consent. The case is Dan Pederson, Connor Olson and Shell Wheeler
v. Donald J. Trump For President, Inc., Case 0:19-cv-02735, United States
District Court for the District Of Minnesota, filed October 18, 2019.
The
Plaintiffs complain that the Defendant “has devised and implemented a campaign
marketing strategy which includes the transmission of text message through use
of automatic dialing systems [ATDS].” Two of the Plaintiffs asserted that they
received unwanted texts from a ten-digit telephone number
Article source: https://tcpaworld.com/2019/10/21/trump-campaign-organization-a-tcpa-target/
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