857-444-5680

Have been getting a ton OF "857" Area Code calls over the last 3 months. Most say "Out of Area" but today THIS number said "LOCAL CALL" which is a BIT FAT LIE - this is a LONG DISTANCE CALL. Other HARASSING NUMBERS of late: 857-444-5292; 857-444-8875; 857-574-0621; 857-776-3089; AND 857-963-4857. **ALL** of these were UNWANTED CALLS. I called THIS number BACK today and got an UNIDENTIFIED message that said "We called to ask you questions about taxes. If this call disturbed you, we apologize." Since we are in the midst of a special election and this is a FAVORITE TACTIC OF the **REPUBLICAN PARTY** (UNIDENTIFIED CALLS from NUMEROUS TELEMARKETING NUMBERS) I suspect this is the work of GABRIEL GOMEZ and his ILK.

We got a recorded political message call today with CID saying "LOCAL CALL", but its not.  OBVIOUSLY this is a TELEMARKETER FOR HIRE because we've gotten other calls from this number with different party affiliations and different 'causes.'

So, even though this is an 'exempt' POLITICAL Call, it is being generated by a PAID TELEMARKETER, so we SHOULD have the right to MAKE THEM STOP.

We should be able to OPT OUT of *ALL* of these calls.