Pro-Trump PAC Sued for Violating TCPA in Run-Up to Nov. 8 Election

Make America Great Again, a political action committee headquartered in Beverly, Massachusetts, bombarded Rafael Santana and other Arizonans with an“intrusive" automated text messaging campaign to promote the candidacy of Republican Kari Lake for Arizona governor, alleged Santana’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action Thursday (docket 2:23-cv-00071) in U.S. District Court in Phoenix. The text messages included a video file that was automatically downloaded to Santana’s phone and contained an artificial or prerecorded voice, it said. Santana never gave MAGA “his express consent to be contacted by telephone using an artificial or prerecorded voice,” it said. The text messages didn't provide “any identifiable characteristic of the intended recipient” but were drafted so they could be “sent out en masse without variation,” the filing said. Santana doesn’t know the number of members in the proposed class but believes they number at least in the thousands, it said, if not tens-of-thousands. Efforts to reach the PAC for comment Friday were unsuccessful. Lake lost the Nov. 8 election to Democrat Katie Hobbs by 17,000 votes.