Consultants Push Back On RNC Pressure Over WINRED

[brooklynite]

Campaigns & Elections

Some Republican consultants across the country are watching with dismay, and in some cases quiet outrage as the RNC ratchets up the public pressure against the main rival to its chosen fundraising platform, WinRed.

C&E spoke to a number of Republican digital and fundraising consultants over the past week, all of whom expressed concern about raising objections in the current environment, worried they’ll just invite pressure onto themselves, their firms and even their clients.

Those who spoke to C&E did so on the condition they not be identified lest the aforementioned pressure jeopardize their business.

“This is a travesty, I don’t know anyone happy about it,” one GOP fundraising consultant said. “If we truly believe, which very few of us do, that the real challenge for us is that we’re not all on the same fundraising platform, which is dubious at best, then the best way for us to do that would be to establish a technology that’s superior and encourage adoption.”

Instead, the party leadership have opted to use a stick to beat back the competition to WinRed, a conduit PAC built on Revv’s platform in partnership with Data Trust.

[riversedge]

1. All swamps stink.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. They (repug fundraisers) already have their pipelines open and running for business full time ...

with their cast of billionaire business owners and the like. Why should they share this already established pipeline w/ others?

This is very shortsighted, being that tons of folks give smaller donations that eventually deliver big bucks to campaigns (the success of the equivalent democratic fundraiser to winred has been amazing).

[MagickMuffin]

3. Win RED with Russia's help

Sounds like a red-handed plan. SOLID