I checked around. This phone number is 'called' Tea Party Patriots. Apparently they don't have anything to do with the 'tea party'. The common characteristic among the call recipients is that someone in the household (or the address) might have voted for the Republicans (GOP) in one of the last 2 elections. So this number (group) is being used to harass these people till they get fed up with the Tea Party and stop supporting it.
I can't get more information to find out if this is a Democratic funded scammer or someone doing it on his own funds to try help the Democrats.
Remember the IRS!
Maybe, this is a variant on the same kind of harassment.
If it is really the Tea Party calling, they would wait to talk to you about their cause and ask for your support or at least, for a donation. This number just calls till you want to pull your hair out. No other intent behind it.
Update: using "Call Block" feature actually made things worse. After the first ring the phone displays "Caller Blocked" for TPP, but now they call almost every hour - up to 10 times a day! It must flag their auto-dialer to redial repeatedly. AT&T suggested trying "Call Screen" feature to block number.
Heard that if you call them back, pressing 0 alerts them that you responded, and then they sell your working number to another company.
Call is coming from a land-line in Atlanta, Georgia. Service is provided by "Peerless Network of Georgia LLC - GA," if that helps. Called 4-1-1 information for 'TPP' or 'Tea Party Patriots' in Atlanta GA, but not found under either title.
Southamboygirl, you're lucky if you only get 2 calls aday. I get 4 calls a day seven days a week! Don't these people that look for donations know we don't have any money left?
It a political fundraising group. For the longest time, I was getting calls where the ID said "TPP," as others have noted. Today, the ID said "Political Group."