Former House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) campaign paid a man from Illinois who sued it for $31,500 for breaking federal robocalling laws, $7,500.
The man, Jorge Rojas, filed a lawsuit against Pelosi’s campaign in October 2022, claiming that the campaign’s frequent texts violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, which forbids solicitors from contacting people who have registered with the Do Not Call Registry.
Rojas registered with the Do Not Call Registry in 2008, but between November 2021 and July 2022, she still received 21 texts from Pelosi’s campaign, according to Business Insider.
Rojas demanded $1,500 in damages from Pelosi, claiming that the texts showed her “malicious, intentional, willful, reckless, wanton and negligent disregard” of the law.
Business Insider reports that the day after Pelosi’s campaign submitted a report to the Federal Elections Commission containing an item for $7,500 paid to Rojas, Rojas formally filed a motion to drop his complaint.
In recent years, the infamous Fundraising messages received in Pelosi’s name have acquired some sort of notoriety.
The question is, “Why won’t Nancy Pelosi stop emailing me?” read the headline of a recent Los Angeles Times opinion piece in which the author lamented the increasingly exaggerated nature of campaign solicitations in general.