‘Drunk Dial Congress’ site generates 10,000 (presumably drunk) calls per hour

Published October 10, 2013 4:00am ET



A website urging the public to “drunk dial Congress” and tell lawmakers to end the government shutdown has connected 10,000 calls per hour to random congressional offices, the site creators reported Thursday.

The tongue-in-cheek site, which includes links to articles about the shutdown as well as thematic drink recipes, was the brainchild of a Democratic firm, Revolution Messaging, based in Washington, D.C.

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