413-648-8042

This number came up while I was away. Called back and it sounded like it was a fax number. Not sure who or why I got this number.ID pops up as Bernardston, MA

American Future Fund is a Right Wing conservative organization 501-C4 Anti-gay anti-Muslim anti-(almost everything). Taking a poll with totally misleading and false questions - not that they are interested in your answers, but by asking you questions that is totally false, hoping you will vote republican.

shown as "Unknown Name" in CallerID; didn't leave a message

american future fund doing a so-called survey as to who you would vote for if the election was held today:

NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS!!!   We don't do any type of survey especially from some organization we don't know or care about.  I wish these people  were not exempt from the do not call list. Their calls and negative political ads are very annoying.

Called 3 pm Sat 10/13. Caller ID said "out of area" I let machine pick up but no message was left....I do NOT answer calls from unknown companies or persons!

Did you know that Jimmy Kimmel repeat the show last night! I told you that I was RIGHT!
There were two guys with the Halloween masks that look like Mitt and Obama butt clogging
behind with the customer support guys at the call center! Oh by the way ,I 'm not like that guy
above me with the number plate in front of him and NEVER WILL! But if this going on all the time,I
can be a guy like that I was alway on my cousin's show,SO PLEASE DON'T LET ME CHANGE MY
PHONE NUMBER AGAIN LIKE MY FRIEND MARTIN SHORT! NO MORE TELEMARKETER CALLS !!
Did you know after Mitt and Obama took off their masks,it the REAL GUYS OF OBAMA  AND MITT!!

Fake pollsters who ask questions that are actually outright lies in an attempt to scare you into voting for the Republicans.  Very slimy, very GOP, like the fake "swift boat" commercials that lied about Kerry's war record so that you wouldn't focus on the Bush family keeping W out of the draft.

And no, I'm not saying this a Democrat.  I'm an indie who stopped voting for the GOP when it became obvious that they sold us out to the big banks, big insurance, and big pharmaceuticals companies.

Constantly receiving calls from 413/648-8042, when answered there's no one on the line but eventually clicks a few times then rings. I then hear a standard phone company type message telling me to try my call again later. AT&T Operator advised contacting the police dept. local to this phone number and a 411 reverse lookup when asked to verify the listing. The 411 reverse lookup only resulted in "information unavailable." I'm contemplating the police call. This is the only site I've been able to find that would show a name for this phone number. An internet search of this name resulted in the following among other listings.

http://factcheck.org/2011/09/american-future-fund-2/

According to FactCheck.org

American Future Fund

American Future Fund has its roots in Iowa. It was founded in 2007 by Nick Ryan, longtime adviser to former U.S. Rep. Jim Nussle (R-Iowa). Its first president, Nicole Schlinger, was a finance director of the Republican Party of Iowa, and its current president is Iowa Republican state Sen. Sandra Greiner, who is also a farmer. In 2011, Ryan was also hired as an adviser for the presidential campaign of former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania.

AFF says it is “a multi-state issues advocacy group designed to effectively communicate conservative and free market ideals,” according to the website. A 501(c)(4), it doesn’t have to disclose donors and can receive unlimited donations. By at least one measure, AFF spent well in the 2010 midterm elections: The New York Times found that the group “won” in 76 percent of the 25 House and Senate races it spent on, “giving it the highest winning percentage among the biggest-spending Republican-leaning groups.”

The group had said it planned to spend $20 million to $25 million in the 2010 election, and a spokeswoman confirmed that AFF spent about $25 million total. Data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics show nearly $7.4 million spent against Democratic candidates and $2.2 million spent on electioneering communications, which are ads that refer to a candidate without expressly advocating for or against that person. AFF also has a political action committee, which spent $85,203 in the 2010 elections — including $44,400 in contributions to the campaigns of 20 Republican House and Senate candidates, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The PAC has spent $22,141 so far for the 2012 cycle, with $9,000 in donations going to the campaigns of five Republican candidates.

Although AFF does not have to disclose its donors, a nonprofit called the Center to Protect Patient Rights reported to the IRS that it contributed about $11.7 million to American Future Fund in 2010. The nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign contributions, first reported in May 2012 on the large contribution — a fraction of the $44 million in all that the  “mystery health care group” gave conservative causes in 2010. The Tribune Washington bureau reported that the Center to Protect Patient Rights has ties to conservative businessmen David and Charles Koch, the co-owners of Koch Industries. David Koch is also the founder of the conservative Americans for Prosperity.

As for individual donors, Bruce Rastetter, CEO of Hawkeye Energy Holdings, an ethanol company, acknowledged to the New York Times through his lawyer that he had provided seed money for the organization. Rastetter gave $5,000 in 2009 to the American Future Fund PAC, which also received $5,000, the maximum annual contribution, from Nick Ryan in 2010 and $4,800 in 2009. In 2011, Rastetter was appointed to the Iowa Board of Regents, which oversees state educational institutions, by Gov. Terry E. Branstad. The Associated Press said that Rastetter has emerged as “one of the most sought-after GOP donors by presidential candidates.”

We found false and misleading claims in several AFF ads about the federal health care legislation in 2009 and 2010. In 2011, the group has run TV and radio ads about government spending, one of which criticized Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota, and a print ad applauding the work of Republican governors.

I just got a call from this number. I've been getting all kinds of calls in the past few days from people doing surveys. I don't answer the phone (when I don't recognize the caller), and these callers don't leave messages. I just keep blocking the phone #'s. I wonder how the heck they got my non-published phone #. I am so sick of this.

Came up on my caller id as UNKNOWN NAME, I don't answer these calls. Thanks to those who put info on this site. I didn't know it was to air your political view points.

Hopefully you won't vote anymore because you're clearly too stupid to not consider both parties.