LOL- RNC facing"estimated 40 percent fall-off in small-donor contributions"

[npincus]

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20070531-050131-2781r.htm

... and FIRES all 65 phone bank solicitors!

:applause: :rofl:

Right! Perfect GOP logic: blame the little guy and make him/her walk the plank because the big guy is a wothless shithead!

An applicable proverb my mother taught me: a bad carpenter quarrels with his tools!


:applause: :rofl:



The Republican National Committee, hit by a grass-roots donors' rebellion over President Bush's immigration policy, has fired all 65 of its telephone solicitors, Ralph Z. Hallow will report Friday in The Washington Times.

Faced with an estimated 40 percent fall-off in small-donor contributions and aging phone-bank equipment that the RNC said would cost too much to update, Anne Hathaway, the committee's chief of staff, summoned the solicitations staff last week and told them they were out of work, effective immediately, the fired staffers told The Times.

The national committee yesterday confirmed the firings that took place more than a week ago, but denied that the move was motivated by declining donor response to phone solicitations.

"The phone-bank employees were terminated," RNC spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt wrote by e-mail in response to questions sent by The Times. "This was not an easy decision. The first and primary motivating factor was the state of the phone bank technology, which was outdated and difficult to maintain. The RNC was advised that we would soon need an entire new system to remain viable."

Fired employees acknowledged that the committee's phone equipment was outdated, but said a sharp drop-off in donations "probably" hastened the end of the RNC's in-house phone-bank operation.


:applause: :rofl:

[Robbien]

1. GOPers will just outsource it to India

I don't see them giving up even a dime. Sure it dropped by 40%, but they never leave any money on the table. Outsourced workers will soon be chasing those dollars for the RNC.

[radfringe]

2. which explains why at a fund raiser for Fred Thompson

there were 100 donors, giving an average of $4,600 each (saw this on CNN yesterday) for a total of $460,000

doesn't sound like grass roots support to me....

[npincus]

3. can you hear the sound of GOP voters staying home

on Election Day? :rofl: