Beto O’Rourke is facing a lawsuit for his relentless use of text messages to unwilling recipients. The Daily Caller reports:
A lawsuit was filed against Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s campaign Friday alleging the Texas senatorial hopeful sent constituents text messages despite not receiving permission to do so.
Sameer Syeed, a resident of Collins County, filed the class action lawsuit in the Northern District of Texas Court, arguing the Beto for Texas campaign violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, reported The Star-Telegram.
The lawsuit alleges that Syeed received numerous unsolicited text messages from Beto for Texas and was unable to stop the automated messages despite both replying to the messages and reaching out to the listed phone number, only to get an error message or dial tone, according to The Star-Telegram. The suit further insists the campaign pay at last $500 per text message to the lawsuit’s plaintiffs.
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act bans the use of “automated telephone equipment to send texts or calls to a person’s cellphone without their permission except for emergency purposes,” according to The Star-Telegram.
Will this become a problem for him at the polls?
They should make it a class action lawsuit and bankrupt Beto.
Actually that’s a great nickname for him: “Bankrupt Beto”, because he’s devoid of morals.
I hope so!
One wonders as to how this law suit will turn out, and also how long it will take to see it’s conclusion.
Not long. The plaintiff has a Muslim name!
Lol.