TCPA Plaintiff Sues NRA PAC for ‘Unsolicited Text Message Campaign’

The National Rifle Association of America Political Victory Fund, a political action committee based in Fairfax, Virginia, inundated consumer Patricia Crowley’s cellphone in the run-up to the Nov. 8 election with text messages backing Arizona Republican gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake, alleged Crowley’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action Tuesday (docket 2:23-cv-00903) in U.S. District Court for Arizona in Phoenix. Crawford and potential members of her class have no relationship with the PAC, nor did they give the PAC their phone numbers, it said. The PAC “embarked on an unsolicited text message campaign, causing Crawford and class members injuries, including invasion of their privacy, aggravation, annoyance, intrusion on seclusion, trespass, and conversion,” it said. Lake lost the election to then-Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D).