Why would the voice of Geico Insurance (“Save $50 dollars or more…”) attack the staff and followers of FreedomWorks as “mentally retarded?” Does he really think that the good men and women who make up the tea party movement – mothers and daughters, grandparents and grandchildren – are all potential murderers that will inevitably “actually kill someone?” 
 
 Better yet, how many of these “mentally retarded” killers opted to save $50 dollars or more on their car insurance. 
 
 Last week, the FreedomWorks press department received a voicemail from a man identifying himself as Lance Baxter. This is what Lance has to say: 
 
 Click to Listen: Lance Baxter’s Voicemail 
 
 We called back to verify Lance’s identity. He said he was busy, but thanked us for the call and said he’d call back. When he didn’t, we followed up to make sure his question had been answered: 
 
 Click to Listen: Adam Brandon confirms the caller 
 
 Lance Baxter (AKA D.C. Douglas) is a noted voiceover actor. When he is not making creepy harassing calls to groups like FreedomWorks, he is the voice at the end of the Geico commercials. 
 
 Feel free to contact Lance. He was so kind to provide his number in the voicemail. Call his employer too. The customer service line for Geico is 800.871.3000. 
 
 Let them know that you, in fact, are not a mentally retarded killer, but that you are now in the market for car insurance. ||||| This collection documents and aggregates information related to the "Occupy Movement" starting in the Autumn of 2011 and continuing in 2012. In September of 2011, a demonstration was held in New York City, calling itself "Occupy Wall Street". This demonstration inspired similar protests and demonstrations around the world calling for social and economic equality, which are collectively now referred to as the "Occupy Movement". ||||| By Mark Memmott 
 
 Lance Baxter, who has a voice you may have heard because he's done a lot of voice-over work for GEICO, won't be doing those commercials anymore. Baxter acknowledges that GEICO has fired him after it became known that he left a voice mail for the "tea party" organization Freedom Works that asked "what (are) the percentages of people that are mentally retarded who work for the organization and are members of it?" He also asked how Freedom Works will "spin it when one of your members does actually kill somebody?" 
 
 Baxter has an acting career under the name D.C. Douglas. He's written a long blog post about what happened (fair warning, there's profanity and obscenity in the post and it includes audio of the voice mail; though the blog seems to be crashing so you may not be able to get to it anyway). In it, Baxter admits that what he said was stupid. But he also continues to make the case that Freedom Works and other organizations in the loosely connected tea party movement have been guilty of encouraging hate speech. 
 
 It wasn't hard for Freedom Works to figure out who Baxter was, by the way. He included his phone number in the voice mail. Soon after, Freedom Works President Matt Kibbe wrote about it on BigGovernment.com, and encouraged anyone who was offended to contact GEICO. 
 
 Update at 2:45 p.m. ET: Earlier, we linked Baxter to the line in the GEICO commercials about "15 minutes saves you 15%." The website Whose Voice Is That?, though, says Baxter's GEICO work was highlighted by his introductions of "real people" who would have their stories told by famous celebrities, and then the line at the end about "GEICO, real service, real savings."
– They didn't stop the health care bill, but tea partiers have gotten the voice of GEICO fired. No, not the gecko, the guy who says, "GEICO, real service, real savings." It seems he called up the group FreedomWorks and left a long, nasty message with lines like, "What (are) the percentages of people that are mentally retarded who work for the organization and are members of it?," reports NPR. FreedomWorks easily identified the caller as Lance Baxter (who does acting work as DC Douglas), mainly because he left his phone number in the message. After the group's president wrote about it at BigGovernment.com—urging readers to call both the actor and his employer—GEICO gave Baxter the ax. He gives his side of the story at his blog here, fessing up to the voicemail while accusing FreedomWorks of encouraging hate speech, writes Mark Memmott of NPR.