TCPA Lawyer Troutman Joins U.S. House Race in California as Independent
Telephone Consumer Protection Act lawyer Eric Troutman has filed as an independent candidate for a U.S. House seat representing parts of Orange County, California, he announced on his TCPAWorld blog Saturday. Democratic Rep. Dave Min is the incumbent.
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Troutman’s campaign website criticizes the Democratic and Republican parties as rival gangs who “are fighting [on Capitol Hill and] causing bloodshed across the nation [in ways that are] even more dangerous than the Bloods and Crips.” His platform in part emphasizes wanting to “STOP UNWANTED ROBOCALLS ONCE AND FOR ALL.” Troutman was among those who criticized the U.S. Supreme Court’s June ruling in the TCPA case McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates v. McKesson, which said lower courts aren’t bound by FCC and other agency decisions (see 2506200053).
Troutman's website says Congress “has completely failed to protect you from unwanted robocalls,” while he “knows the loopholes bad actors use to get into our networks and how to prevent it once and for all.” He points to a plan to stop robocalls that he outlined in 2023 following a Senate Communications Subcommittee hearing (see 2310240065). It calls for lawmakers to “legislate limits on points of entry into the U.S. telephone network” rather than trying to directly revamp TCPA.
Troutman's platform also proposes raising House members’ annual salaries to $1.9 million to “attract more qualified individuals who are willing to give up their successful practices to help write our laws.” House lawmakers' current annual salary is $174,000.