Update [2008-5-6 19:11:48 by PageGardner]:

There seems to be many questions related to the 'robo' call itself that we made and the press release we distributed preceding our mailing, here is our best attempt to answer some of them.  

Cross posted on my personal blog

UPDATE: antirove looked at the timestamp on the pdf that was posted by TPM - "File Create and Modify Dates=4/29/2008 9:17:20 PM"  

That's Tuesday.  Meaning Page Gardner was LYING when she said they had sent a press release out to North Carolina media in advance of their mailing.  How can the board put up with this?  [UPDATE 2.5: As has been pointed out, it's possible that the PDF was created on the 29th even though the press release - which nobody in the media has been able to produce - went out on the 28th.]

UPDATE x2: Scroll down for the screen capture of the undated press release.  It really does look weird - I look at press releases all the time for my work and they ALWAYS have a date.

Synopsis: In an effort to cover their asses after the North Carolina robocall scandal erupted, Women's Voices Women Vote (WVWV) planted an article in a small-town Colorado newspaper solely for the purpose of reposting it on the WVWV website.  Their intent was to mislead people into thinking WVWV had a multi-state press strategy aimed at voters to correspond with voter registration mailings.  In fact, their "press strategy" was aimed not at voters, but rather was part of a desperate PR strategy to quell the controversy exploding around them among the progressive blogosphere.

WVWV wanted to make it look like the NC catastrophe was in fact well planned out, so they created a press release after the fact (that conveniently addressed concerns about the timing of their mailings and calls in relation to the upcoming primary) and false implied that it had already been sent to the NC press.  Then, the next day, they planted an article in a Colorado newspaper to make it look like their press campaign was actually national.

Last night I posted a diary discussing various ways in which Women's Voices. Women Vote was engaging in a cover up about its voter suppression/confusion activities in North Carolina.  I pointed specifically to salon.com's piece that swallowed hook, line, and sinker many half truths being spread by WVWV.

The Salon piece (which is so good for WVWV that they're linking to it on their home page now) also contradicted Sarah Johnson's answers to Adam B's questions on Daily Kos on Thursday.  

It is clear now that WVWV is engaging in a disinformation campaign to try to steer concerned people away from the idea that they're engaging in voter suppression among African Americans in North Carolina.  They have been using surrogates such as pro-Obama board members Mike Lux and William McNary, not to mention independent voter registration activists like James Rucker of ColorOfChange.org and Becky Bond of Credo Mobile/Active Matters to vouch for their character and steer us away from suspecting WVWV of anything untoward.

Today, their latest victim is Salon.com's Alex Koppelman.  

Details below the fold.

I don't think I need to rehash everything that has come out about these robocalls in North Carolina.  If you're not up to speed, this site is as good as it gets: http://www.southernstudies.org/...

But, look, we are where we are.  One fact is indisputable - African Americans have gotten targeted with false and misleading information about what it takes to vote, even those who are registered.

Despite being repeatedly warned by law enforcement to cease and desist, Women's Voices Women Vote has continued to do the same thing, leading to voter confusion, and kept offering the same "Oops" response, while continuing to do the same thing.  

There is only one thing to rectify this.