OK, here's the deal. I picked up again. They identify themselves as "Athoriti Research" - I am not confident that is the spelling, even though I demanded they spell it out for me, because this call was so incoherent. The caller was someone with a thick Latino accent who could barely read her script clearly in English. She sounded like she was about 17.
As I guessed, the very first substantive question turned out to be about San Francisco's Proposition V, the sugary beverage tax. At that point, though, I started yelling at the poor girl because she couldn't even pronounce the word "proposition" clearly without my asking her three times what the hell she was talking about. I realize she's probably making close to minimum wage, but if she can't make herself understood and keeps asking if voters know about the "purposes" on the November ballot, even this shady outfit shouldn't be hiring her. I demanded that she transfer me to someone who reads English clearly and she instead just ended the "survey".
So I am pretty befuddled as to who this really is. I would think that the soda industry would be spending real money so they wouldn't have to hire dumb amateurs to do their push-polling against V. From the way she correctly used the phrase "sugary soda tax" and not the soda industry's lie of a "grocery tax", my best guess is that this is is probably a grassroots org arguing Yes on V.
If anyone from the Yes on V campaign is reading this, PLEASE, guys, step up your game! If this is really your attempt at legit research and not push-polling, it does all of us no favors that you're having apparently illiterate teenagers making your calls for you!