I called Boxer's office (UPDATED)

I called directly on my dime and heard Senator Boxer's voice telling me that I would hear classical music and would be on hold--unless I pushed a button and would be transferred to her San Francisco office.

Bugger that. I dialed the toll free amnesty hotline:

1-800-882-2005. (Spanish number)
1-800-417-7666. (English number)

And it rang immediately, and I told the nice young man who answered the phone that I hoped Senator Boxer would vote no on the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill and also on the cloture motion coming up. He said he would pass both of those sentiments along.

I am so curious about this hotline and how it works. Why isn't the mainstream media curious? How is one side offered free, privileged access to lawmakers, and another side isn't?

Does this thing even ring in the Capitol building, or was I talking to some sham phone bank in Las Vegas?

UPDATE: Michelle has done some investigating into the Who and the Who Paid--and no big surprise, lefty sugar-daddy George $oro$ is involved.

But the question I still have is "Who let them"? Is it even technologically possible to channel phone traffic into the Capitol like this? What would it take?

I was mostly joking about the sham phone bank in Vegas. But it's bugging me because the alternative hypothesis is almost equally bizarre--someone rewired the Capitol switchboard to rout pro-amnesty calls to the front of the line? Was this done with the Senators' permission? Someone in the Senate?

Did this violate any laws?

MORE: In the comments, JYB tech guru Annoying Old Guy doesn't think my activist-phone-bank idea is too off the wall, although routing the calls from the hotline to the Senate offices is easy as long as you have inside help and a secret-number phone line:

Technologically, it’s trivial, if you have the cooperation of the final recipient. It is not fundamentally different than call forwarding, all you would need is for the Congress critter to have an unlisted phone number which is provided only to the forwarder. Whether that’s what is being done vs. a sham phone bank is much less clear.

My guess, though, is that the person you spoke to is employed by an activist group and summaries are the provided to Boxer, possibly filtered. That’s not really different than actual Congressional staff, the only difference being who picks up the tab.

I think it is different--because why would Senators trust an advocacy group to communicate accurately the magnitude of their support or opposition? That's why they pay their staffers to answer phones.

And did, say, Jeff Sessions and Jim DeMint give permission to someone to set up a special pro-amnesty number in their offices, monopolizing their interns and Legislative Correspondents' time? One that would take priority over the calls that originated in the homes of their constituents? I sort of doubt it.

This bill is being done in the dark, in secret, in bad faith and with an extraordinary degree of contempt for anyone who disagrees, and this phone thing is just one more example of that.